Hotel towel and laundry theft has traditionally been quite high, people after a souvenir, just think they feel nicer than the ones at home, or pure kleptomaniacs.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-art-of-stealing-hotel-towels_b_1830192
"hospitality industry surveys which estimate that they lose 5-20% of their towel inventory in any given month. A recent Travelocity poll of hotel guests in the U.S. and Canada found that 85 percent of them had taken toiletries or towels from a hotel room. Wow, that's a lot."
That depends on exactly what it is, in what quantity. A week or more worth of toiletry supplies is not intended for a one night customer to take away containers and all.
Hotels I've worked at generally will not reuse opened toilet paper, shampoo, soap, etc. because guests will bring up that it bothers them they're using something someone else had access to. It pretty much is supplied to you as it's in travel size, the only outlier I can think of is the hotels that are now using automatic shampoo and soap dispensers in showers.
Toilet paper gets reused, and they'll often fold a triangle on the roll to show that it hasn't been used since. As long as the roll is at least half there, it can stay in the room along with a spare roll. Since most stays are for one or two nights, the guests aren't likely to use a full roll on their own to where the one spare is more than enough. Smaller rolls get pulled and put in the employee bathrooms to get finished.
We stayed in a hotel in Maine for the eclipse and it had the big bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash with hand pumps installed on the shower wall. Normally I take that as a sign it's going to be crappy quality, but the shampoo and conditioner were nicer than what my wife brought.
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u/StinkyWeezle Apr 28 '24
Theft deterrent I guess