The 5 most popular hotel articles that are taken as souvenirs

Toilet items, tea, ceramic pieces, cutlery, cups, lamps, sheets, TV remote control batteries, hair dryers, mirrors and even works of art. All of these objects (and a few others) are part of the list that resulted from a survey of the main items stolen in hotels around the world by LateRooms.com. The survey heard 8,000 establishments from different countries and produced results that were at least curious. The truth is that seven in 10 hotel guests admit to have taken home something that did not belong to him.

Check out the 5 most popular hotel articles that are taken as souvenirs:

Toilet items
Shampoo, conditioner, soap and body cream kits provided by hotels are often taken by guests. It can’t be considered a problem, because most hotels account for these types of products in the price of the lodging. But sometimes the theft includes the tray and the basket where these items are.

Lighting of rooms
Less common, but that also integrates the list is the lighting of hotel rooms. According to LateRooms.com research, this is one of the objects of desire of the guests, and many take advantage of their stays to carry the lamps of the place.

TV remote control batteries
It is a fact: there are customers who take the batteries of the TV controls and also of other small equipments of the hotels.

Bath and face towels
Perhaps because of the softness and quality, bath and face towels are also at the top of the most popular hotel items taken as a souvenir, especially the largest ones.

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Stationery, ballpoint pens, notepads, magazines
Although with a lower monetary value, when compared for example with towels, there are also those who carry this type of items in the suitcase.

Hotels try to counteract this reality with little tricks such as alarm microchips, hangers attached to cabinets, minibars with electronic systems for better control of customers who drink, for example, a bottle of gin or vodka and then fill it with water .

Other surveys conducted by the Hotels.com platform indicate that the Spanish and Argentines are the nationalities that steal most ahead of the Americans. On the other hand, Koreans, Chinese and Norwegians are the ones who steal less articles from hotels.

In 2008, the Holiday Inn chain of hotels reported that the theft of towels had exceeded the amount of half a million. Any mid-level hotel has an annual expenditure on amenities that can exceed 200 thousand euros, an amount that is diluted in the cost of the room. It is true that the more attractive the design or the brand of the products, the faster these disappear from the sites. To try to avoid this situation, some hotels of international chains with higher quality products have on sale at the reception of the hotel everything with the brand of the same, from furniture, dishes to robes and pillows.

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