Clean Getaways: 89% of Brits help themselves to hotel ‘take-aways’

6 months ago 13th Feb 09:51

Brits lift 94 million bottles of shampoo from hotels each year

Each year, light fingered Brits are helping themselves to 94 million bottles of shampoo, 64 million sewing kits and 42 million plastic shower caps from hotel rooms, according to research from Hotels.com, the world’s most visited hotels booking site.*

89% of people surveyed admit to liberating an array of items from hotel rooms when away from home. Shampoo, shower gel, sewing kits and shower caps are amongst the favourite items for ‘freebie’ loving Brits. There is even a contingent who thinks nothing of taking towels and bed linen.

Favourite Hotel Take-Aways

Our favourite hotel
Number of items that Brits
take-aways
take from hotel rooms each year
Shampoo, shower gel Or conditioner
94 million
Sewing kits
64 million
Shower caps
42 million
Slippers
13 million
Towels
3 million
Do not disturb signs
4 million
Bath robes
2 million
Bed linen
1.2 million

Unusual hotel take-aways
When questioned about the most unusual items that people have taken from hotel rooms, rubber ducks, lamps, champagne buckets, ashtrays, shoe horns, and even a sample of paint from the wall were amongst strange array of items that Brits have slipped into their suitcases upon their departure.

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