While on vacation in a hotel, you might have been in the habit of taking home a few souvenirs, innocently thinking that you had the right to do so. But establishments now have a very effective way of making you pay if you risk it…
Are you the type to steal hotel towels, imagining that you won’t get caught red-handed? Please note that most establishments now have a very effective method for detecting this type of theft in hotels…
You may be used to taking the shampoos, body lotions and other shower gels offered to you in your hotel rooms and carrying them in your suitcase. This practice is, in principle, permitted by the establishment. But if you think that linens are available to you in hotel rooms to the point of packing towels, sheets or bathrobes in your suitcase, you are wrong in most cases! Most often, it is completely forbidden to take them into your home.
According to a German hotel guide, Wellness Heaven, bath towels are the most stolen item in establishments and according to an interactive Harris survey for the site Hotels.com, a quarter of customers admitted to having already taken bath towels and a bathrobe for 20% of them. But you will quickly be spotted if you try to slip through the cracks…
And for good reason, hotels now equip their household linen with RFID chip tags, which include a unique identification number. Each towel or linen is scanned before being made available to guests in the rooms, then the label is scanned again once it goes to the laundry. So, if they can’t find your towel or bathrobe, the hotel can determine, thanks to this label, that you took it and link the linen to your room number. The establishment can therefore charge you for what you stole. And the bill can sometimes be steep!
And in case you feel like it, know that it is also prohibited to bring back in your suitcase a frame or a painting attached to the walls of your hotel room, a hanger, or even a drying rack provided in the bathroom!
