Hotels in NY will no longer be able to provide hospitality care products beginning 2025 (1 Viewer)

[Alex...]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you're planning a trip for 2025, you may need to pack more for your hotel stay next year - than you did this summer vacation.

Starting in January, hotels in New York state with more than 50 rooms will no longer be able to provide small bottles containing 'hospitality care' products.

It's a new state law to help reduce waste. Small bottles refer to any bottle under 12 ounces.

Hotels will no longer be able to provide small bottles of shampoo or lotion beginning 2025

Starting in January, hotels with more than 50 rooms will no longer be able to provide small bottles containing 'hospitality care' products.

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[Clinton McClure]

That’s still a thing? It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve stayed in a hotel that provided those. Mostly, the hotels have separate shampoo and conditioner pump bottles mounted to the shower wall.

 

[Malcolm R]

Yes, it seems like a reasonable proposition. Those little bottles must generate such a waste, both garbage and money. Even if the guest didn't use them, it seems like the hotel would have to throw them away every time the room changes over since they can't be sure if they were used or tampered with.

But as Clint notes, many hotels have now switched over to refillable pumps (but not all). Though I'm not sure if that's any better from a product safety standpoint, unless the dispensers are somehow locked and housekeeping needs a key to refill.

 

[BobO'Link]

I always take those things with me and if I forget will just purchase replacements when I arrive as what the hotels provide rarely suits my skin/hair. If they *do* provide them I'll sometimes take some to dump the contents and fill with my own for use on shorter trips. And it's been years since I've done even that as the last ones I grabbed are still in use (I rarely take overnight trips so it takes a very long time for them to "wear out").

I've never understood why they even leave them in rooms. Just keep some at the desk to provide only if someone asks for them.

I'd only be upset if they removed the in-room coffee maker and coffee, the one thing that's not convenient to take with you.

 

[Bert Greene]

I think I still have about two dozen unopened little hotel shampoo bottles in my travel bag, just like little packaged soap bars, dating back well over a decade. I'd always grab one, anticipating that I might later stay at a cheapie motel sans any. On one hand, it's good, as there's way too much of this plastic garbage cluttering the oceans and such. On the other hand, there's no way in hell I'm going to trust what's been put in some permanent dispenser.

 

[Jeffrey D]

I saw the headline to this story. No big deal to me- I carry my own supplies in an overnight bag, when I know I’m going to a hotel/motel. I never use the stuff that the accommodation leaves in the room for the guests.

 

[Clinton McClure]

I take a bar of soap and bottle of shampoo with me on business trips. If the hotel bathroom is stocked, I use what they supply. If not, then I have mine as a backup.

I don’t use the in-room coffee makers. I usually go to the lobby for a cup during breakfast or on my way out of the hotel to visit a customer.

 

[tarinyanaka]

I saw the headline to this story. No big deal to me- I carry my own supplies in an overnight bag, when I know I’m going to a hotel/motel. I never use the stuff that the accommodation leaves in the room for the guests.

Why? Am I right in assuming that you just don't want to use hotel stuff?

 

[Jeffrey D]

Why? Am I right in assuming that you just don't want to use hotel stuff?

The main reason I don’t use the free stuff is for the reason Alex posted at the top of the thread- I feel it’s wasteful to pitch partially used shampoo containers. I try to not waste stuff.