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Shampoo - Britons' top pick-up from hotels
Indo-Asian News Service

London, Oct 1 (IANS) Britons take home 430,000 gallons of shampoo from hotels every year - enough to fill 14,000 bathtubs, a survey has found.

The survey, conducted by hotels.com revealed that as many as 70 percent of guests in hotels in Britain admit to picking up the mini shampoo bottles before checking out.

Shower gel and conditioner are the next most popular items to be taken, followed by sewing kits, emery boards and soap.

Only 19 percent feel guilty about taking the items; others believe that they have paid for them already and are therefore expected to remove them.

Female guests are more than twice as likely to take the shampoo as male guests. Just four percent of men take emery boards and nine percent of men take sewing kits.

Other items picked up from hotel rooms include soap, shower caps, stationary, bathrobes and "Do not disturb" signs.

Martin Couchman of the British Hospitality Association, told the BBC it was "a fine moral judgement" to decide whether taking a part-used bottle of shampoo was theft. 

He added: "There's a difference between taking a bottle of shampoo and a bathrobe." 

"Many hotels ask guests not to take the robes, but say they are happy to sell them one if they wish." 

Couchman also warned that with guests frequently providing credit card details before staying at a hotel, managers could easily bill them later for expensive items, which had been taken without permission.