Do you prefer the towels, magazines or shower caps?
What do you really pilfer from hotels?
Town and Country magazine, recently asked its rich subscribers what, if anything, they swipe from luxury hotel rooms.
The answer: The soap.
Affluent hotel guest prefer to lift expensive soap to extra-fluffy towels and bathrobes. And by expensive I mean brands like Acqua di Parma, Bulgari, Hermes and L’Occitane.
No paper-thin bars of discount soap that don’t lather up or smell like a fresh morning dew. Rather, high-end guests are filling their Louis Vuitton bags with luxury lathers.
According to the magazine, most guests with big pockets don’t think that dumping the contents of the hotel’s toiletry basket into their bags is stealing. Instead, experts maintain that the thieves believe they “deserve” all of the extras since they are “paying through the nose to be cosseted.”
Of course, not all soap stealers take the nice smelling orbs because they feel as though they already paid for them in the price of the room. According to the magazine, some guests do it because it offers “mere access to a great product that’s hard to get.”
If something is hard to get, then can you rationalize stealing it?
I can’t. In fact, the last time we were in Hawaii we stayed at an upscale resort which featured hotel robes and slippers. If I were going to take something without paying for it, I would much rather sneak out with a fluffy bathrobe than a sleek bar of soap.
Then again, it’s not like hotel staff can use soaps after they have been opened. Also, if you have two soaps, two sinks, but only one person in the room, then it might not be a stretch to justify taking the other bar home.
What if anything have you ever taken from a hotel room?
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