Travel tips: Rules to stealing toiletries from fancy hotels

By Jamie Lafferty
Updated January 20 2015 - 4:13pm, first published 3:20pm
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.
Hard to resist: Taking moisturiser is OK, but the linen.

It started when I was backpacking. Fifteen months of self-imposed destitution and frequent squalor were, when the stars aligned, broken by occasional stays in Very Nice Hotels. When I say stars aligned, I mean I organised the stays as part of reviews or wider travel writing; my partner and I travelled for so long because we scraped by on a pauper's budget. The very first place we stayed during our long trip was the Langham in Hong Kong and so perhaps that was the scene of the original sin. We stayed there three nights and, knowing that far humbler accommodation would make up the majority of our time on the road, we set about pilfering all of their toiletries. They smelled so nice, you see, and they were just so … free.

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