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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:03:09 PM EDT
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always wondered if someone were to take all the towels home from a hotel after staying there would they know? would they charge you if the did? Not if you're a Clinton. TBH, I have never taken a towel, so I have no first hand experience. I have never heard of someone being charged, but I'm not sure if I even know anyone whose taken hotel towels. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:05:07 PM EDT
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Take all of them? Maybe. Take one? Probably not. You can call the front desk and ask for more towels. So how do they know how many were actually there?
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:05:44 PM EDT
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Thievery is an honor in GD.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:06:09 PM EDT
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I don't know, but I would hope so. Thieves need to be held accountable and as a non-thief I don't want to pay for their bad behavior.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:06:30 PM EDT
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I assume they would charge your credit card
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:06:40 PM EDT
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Thievery is an honor in GD. Why would you say that? 
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:06:46 PM EDT
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I've had the Omni in Katy TX try and charge me 7 bucks for a bottle of water. They saw a bottle in the trash that I had bought on the way from the airport and tried billing me. They ended up removing the charge after I called them.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:07:32 PM EDT
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Thievery is an honor in GD. Stayed in many a Vegas hotel without taking one. Just a curiousity question |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:07:56 PM EDT
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always wondered if someone were to take all the towels home from a hotel after staying there would they know? would they charge you if the did? Yes, they likely will, and they're expensive as fuck. I chaperoned a school trip once in which a rather stupid teenage boy wrote on a pillow case with a sharpie. They charged his parents a replacement fee in the neighborhood of 70 bucks. Wasn't even a high end hotel or anything, hotel linens are just heavy duty and expensive. Was actually a pretty decent kid by the end of highschool, but had a number of painful and/or expensive lessons along the way. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:10:12 PM EDT
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Yes, they likely will, and they're expensive as fuck. I chaperoned a school trip once in which a rather stupid teenage boy wrote on a pillow case with a sharpie. They charged his parents a replacement fee in the neighborhood of 70 bucks. Wasn't even a high end hotel or anything, hotel linens are just heavy duty and expensive. Was actually a pretty decent kid by the end of highschool, but had a number of painful and/or expensive lessons along the way. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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always wondered if someone were to take all the towels home from a hotel after staying there would they know? would they charge you if the did? Yes, they likely will, and they're expensive as fuck. I chaperoned a school trip once in which a rather stupid teenage boy wrote on a pillow case with a sharpie. They charged his parents a replacement fee in the neighborhood of 70 bucks. Wasn't even a high end hotel or anything, hotel linens are just heavy duty and expensive. Was actually a pretty decent kid by the end of highschool, but had a number of painful and/or expensive lessons along the way. yeah at a match hotel in utah thye put up a sign that told the shooters not to use the towels to clean their guns. 
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:11:57 PM EDT
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I usually take the (used) soap and shampoo when I leave, because they're just going to throw it away anyway, and I don't like waste. But taking anything reusable is thievery.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:12:47 PM EDT
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<Removed. --tbk1>
Just saying...... |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:17:30 PM EDT
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If the maid reports it, yes.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:19:30 PM EDT
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Most hotels will. Pool towels are impossible to track however...
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:20:59 PM EDT
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Most hotels will. Pool towels are impossible to track however... Don't post that. PS. Worked in a hotel for nearly 3 years.....Lots of interesting stories..... |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:23:50 PM EDT
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A former coworker told me he stayed in a low-cost hotel one time and there was a sign in the room saying that everything was for sale. IOW feel free to take pillows, towels, sheets, etc and we will be happy to charge your card for them.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:26:16 PM EDT
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Next time you think of taking a towel from a hotel, shine a black light on them first.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:26:30 PM EDT
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Who would want to?
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:27:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've had the Omni in Katy TX try and charge me 7 bucks for a bottle of water. They saw a bottle in the trash that I had bought on the way from the airport and tried billing me. They ended up removing the charge after I called them. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:28:21 PM EDT
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Who would want to? You would be surprised. Who would want to flush an entire Queen sized bedsheet down the toilet?...... Seen it more than once...... |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:29:05 PM EDT
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I expect so.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:31:47 PM EDT
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I don't know, but I would hope so. Thieves need to be held accountable and as a non-thief I don't want to pay for their bad behavior. this Stealing is stealing.Period. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:33:11 PM EDT
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Many people steal the bath robes from cruise ships.
They almost always get charged about $65 for missing robes. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:33:40 PM EDT
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Next time you think of taking a towel from a hotel, shine a black light on them first. But OK to go ahead and use it prior to inspection? A.W.D. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:34:15 PM EDT
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<Removed. --tbk1> Just saying...... Guess not 
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:37:15 PM EDT
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A former coworker told me he stayed in a low-cost hotel one time and there was a sign in the room saying that everything was for sale. IOW feel free to take pillows, towels, sheets, etc and we will be happy to charge your card for them. I've seen that in more than one place. Thought it was a great spin on it. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:37:50 PM EDT
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I guess I dont stay in high dollar hotels
I have never looked at a hotel towel and thought "this is a nice towel, I wished I had towels like this at home" maybe people enjoy paper thin towels that feel like sandpaper 
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:40:33 PM EDT
[#28]
Why do you try that out and let us know how it goes?
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:44:46 PM EDT
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Just an FYI...if you want those over-sized microcotton towels you get at a luxury resort/hotel, go to TJ Maxx. They have them for like 10 bucks a towel. I think we have like 20 of them.
Now if I could just find the robes. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:47:13 PM EDT
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Take all of them? Maybe. Take one? Probably not. You can call the front desk and ask for more towels. So how do they know how many were actually there? Most high-end hotels will log the towels brought from the front desk, probably most hotels these days. We have never intentionally taken a towel, but one day we got home and realized that one of the kids had stuck one of the hotel towels in the dirty clothes. Called and the hotel (Drury Inn) said not to worry about it. They are cheap enough that they don't really care if one walks off here and there, but when someone walks off with all of them, they charge. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:53:33 PM EDT
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I have never heard of anyone being charged solely for pinching a towel.
Too much bad press for a hotel if the maid miscounted. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:56:40 PM EDT
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Just an FYI...if you want those over-sized microcotton towels you get at a luxury resort/hotel, go to TJ Maxx. They have them for like 10 bucks a towel. I think we have like 20 of them. Now if I could just find the robes. Stayed at the Golden Nugget, Rush Tower not long ago. Nicest damn bath robes I've ever seen. They sell them in the gift shop, $150 apiece.... |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:57:16 PM EDT
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Reminds me of my grandparents house. Towels from many hotels when they'd go to Vegas twice a year.
"Oh they want you to take them."
May have been so back in the day. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 4:59:12 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't know, but I would hope so. Thieves need to be held accountable and as a non-thief I don't want to pay for their bad behavior. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:07:16 PM EDT
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A former coworker told me he stayed in a low-cost hotel one time and there was a sign in the room saying that everything was for sale. IOW feel free to take pillows, towels, sheets, etc and we will be happy to charge your card for them. I stayed in a high-end hotel in another country that had a placard on the sink essentially saying the same thing. It basically said all items were high-quality and many guests found them very desirable, therefor they were for sale and listed the prices for each item (towel, washcloth, robe, pillow, etc.) and said there was no reason to request to purchase the item, just take the item(s) with you and the cleaning service would inform the front desk of the proper charges for your room. It made me laugh, and the robes were very nice, perfect to wear after enjoying the small private pool. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:18:35 PM EDT
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Depends on the hotel and how much you take. Shrink is budgeted into rooms revenue and unless you go big, no one cares cares if a few small items grow legs. Technically, you pay for theft and for whiney guest compensation through the room rate.
-10 years in hotels. ETA- Robes are almost universally a no-go. They WILL charge for those. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:24:45 PM EDT
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Don't post that. PS. Worked in a hotel for nearly 3 years.....Lots of interesting stories..... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Most hotels will. Pool towels are impossible to track however... Don't post that. PS. Worked in a hotel for nearly 3 years.....Lots of interesting stories..... I worked in a hotel in college - the pool towels walked out the door constantly. That's why they're so tiny and rough. They're about 3/5 the size of a normal towel and made of 120 grit. Their general shittiness should deter theft, but people can't resist. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:29:48 PM EDT
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I had to clean up a friend's puke with a couple of hotel towels.
Rather than leave them there for the maids to wash I took them in a plastic bag and threw them away in the first dumpster I found. If they want to charge me for it IDGAF. They never did though. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:34:52 PM EDT
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Theft is wrong and I don't take towels....
but the real reason that most AVERAGE hotels wont bill for one towel is the cost... here is one example less than $1.75 per towel when bought bulk... http://www.towelhub.com/wholesale/697-22x44_-_gold_center_stripe_premium_bath_towel.html I actually buy all my towels bulk like this when I need to...you can get nicer ones for a lot less than you would pay at a retail store. http://www.towelhub.com/wholesale/bath_sheets/720-30x60_white_100_cotton_premium_plus_full_terry_bath_sheets.html or colors http://www.towelhub.com/wholesale/688-30x60_color_beach_towels.html but I am a cheap bastard
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:41:24 PM EDT
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I've always had success blaming it on the hookers in and out of my room....except the dead one.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:42:53 PM EDT
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You can take the towels, you can take the pressure washer too
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:44:37 PM EDT
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I can't remember which hotel it was, but I stayed in a nice one that no-shit had a price list for basically everything. Towels, robes, wash cloths, the fuckin' comforter...
"Steal away", they'll just bill your card. And they were even nice enough to let you know how much. Hint: It was a lot. No sane person would do this.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:46:09 PM EDT
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I've always had success blaming it on the hookers in and out of my room....except the dead one. Fun story. I once had a guy fly two hookers from Texas to the hotel (who IMPORTS hookers into A.C.?) and demanded I comp him the room after they robbed him. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:47:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Don't post that. PS. Worked in a hotel for nearly 3 years.....Lots of interesting stories..... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Most hotels will. Pool towels are impossible to track however... Don't post that. PS. Worked in a hotel for nearly 3 years.....Lots of interesting stories..... We're waiting |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:48:30 PM EDT
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I can't remember which hotel it was, but I stayed in a nice one that no-shit had a price list for basically everything. Towels, robes, wash cloths, the fuckin' comforter...
"Steal away", they'll just bill your card. And they were even nice enough to let you know how much. Hint: It was a lot. No sane person would do this. Smart policy. As long as your inventory control system is on top of things and doesn't make mistakes. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:52:06 PM EDT
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Its the hotel saying, "If you want to pay $35 for a $4 towel, have at it..."
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:53:15 PM EDT
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Take all of them? Maybe. Take one? Probably not. You can call the front desk and ask for more towels. So how do they know how many were actually there? I used to stay at a hotel in the PI that wouldn't let you check out until they sent someone to count the towels. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:54:41 PM EDT
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If you just ask a maid for one, she'll give it to you. |
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:54:43 PM EDT
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I had a hotel try to do that to a travel companion in The Philippines. I asked him he stole the towel and he said no ... so I said let them search through your luggage. If they find the towel you buy it. If not they pay you the cost of the towel as they lost the bet. They took him up on it and cut him 125 pesos off the bill when they didn't find it.
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Posted: 9/1/2015 6:56:02 PM EDT
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I used to stay at a hotel in the PI that wouldn't let you check out until they sent someone to count the towels. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Take all of them? Maybe. Take one? Probably not. You can call the front desk and ask for more towels. So how do they know how many were actually there? I used to stay at a hotel in the PI that wouldn't let you check out until they sent someone to count the towels. Outside the back gate at Clark?
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