He mentions toothpaste is standard in Asia which is also my experience. The standard delivery mechanism is a sealed plastic bag with a cheap toothbrush and a two-time use mini tube of unbranded toothpaste. (So it's not like you're using a re-filled tube someone else used the night before)
The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013)
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#22Oh no, this like a "cannot unsee"-picture. I will never be able to stay at a hotel again without being troubled by the lack of toothpaste. It begs the question: What else in the world do we not see until we see it?
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#23A thousand times amen to this.
At home I share a tube of toothpaste with my wife: if we go on holiday together, we bring the tube with us.
If I'm travelling solo, for business or whatever, then the home toothpaste stays at home, so I need to remember to buy a new tube to take with me. It's the only thing I need to expressly purchase other than the hotel room booking.
This can't be that unusual a scenario... can it?
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#24Some years ago I went on a cruise and they provided a name-brand toothpaste, and iirc a hotel in UK or Europe provided toothpaste on my stay. I was excited each time I received it.
A Sheraton I visited recently provided a packet of shave cream. It smelled of horrible medicine and it didn't protect my face at all during shaving; in fact, I determined over two days that using it had been worse than not at all. Note that I tried with and without mixing it with an appropriate amount of water, but it didn't matter.
I know there is probably a significant cost different to the hotel, but I vote for name-brand toothpaste over horrible shave cream.
As for the rest, they only thing I would want is shampoo. Since the TSA started checking for "insecure" amounts of fluids, I have really started to rely on the shampoo in hotels. I only keep an "insecurely" large bottle of shampoo at home and don't want to waste time and energy putting it into a small bottle to take with me for the matter of a few to several days of use.
BTW, If you're curious about the 100mL TSA rule, read these for their explanation and reasoning:
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/liquids-rule
http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/02/more-on-liquid-rules-why-we-do-t...
http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/05/3-1-1-liquid-policy-still-in-pla...
http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/talk-to-tsa-response-are-liquids...
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#25Bringing my own shampoo is a hassle, because I buy shampoo in normal-sized many-use bottles that are quite large and might leak. Bringing my own soap is even worse, because nobody wants to carry around a slimy wet cake of soap. Bringing my own toothpaste is easy, because it's small, and I get the brand whose taste I'm accustomed to. Also, I've got to bring my tooth brush with me anyway, so the toothpaste as well isn'…
Since switching from a cartridge razor to a safety razor a few years ago, I've also switched from using shaving cream to using shaving soap (the use of which seems to go hand in hand with use of safety razors, if only for retro-cultural reasons). While I do not travel with the safety razor because TSA, I do bring the shaving soap (and a boar's hair shaving brush) along with a cartridge razor, in part because it's more convenient (it takes up less space than a travel-sized can of shaving cream).
I've found the standard units of Col. Conk shaving soap, e.g. http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Col-Conk-Shaving-Soap-Lime-S... to be good for travel. The plastic container the soap is embedded in can be resealed for travel and you don't have the 'slimy wet cake' problem that I have yet to solve for other forms of soap. Shaving soap is also more economical than shaving cream; much less of it is used per shave, and so a single small unit of shaving soap can last for many months.
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#26A thousand times amen to this. At home I share a tube of toothpaste with my wife: if we go on holiday together, we bring the tube with us. If I'm travelling solo, for business or whatever, then the home toothpaste stays at home, so I need to remember to buy a new tube to take with me. It's the only thing I need to expressly purchase other than the hotel room booking. This can't be that unusual a scenario... can it?
Nope. Same deal. I'd probably pay about $5 more a night in exchange for toothpaste being provided. I'll be on the hunt for Hyatt now that I know it's standard there.
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#27I'm on the road 30-90 (or more) days a year. I bring my own: Shampoo (Cant stand the smell of most hotel shampoo), Soap (I like Dr. Bronners in the Bar, also, see above), Toothpaste (I'm preferential to colgate with fluoride), Deodorant (Unscented), Aftershave, Q-Tips, (2) Razors, Antacids plus a bevy of other personal care products. I don't use most of the toiletries left by the hotel, they don't smell good (though…
> So I suspect the real reason hotel's have no toothpaste in the rooms, is most travelers prefer to bring their own. Indeed, this was my thought too. I suspect that toothpaste is such a necessity that nobody travels without their own. Shampoos, conditioners et al are nice but not necessary and hence less liable to find a place in the backpack. The hotels must have observed the unused toothpaste tubes and simply remov…
> Indeed, this was my thought too. I suspect that toothpaste is such a necessity that nobody travels without their own.
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#28Oh no, this like a "cannot unsee"-picture. I will never be able to stay at a hotel again without being troubled by the lack of toothpaste. It begs the question: What else in the world do we not see until we see it?
Here's one: https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...
Another movie one: Between the time that Tyler Durden pointed out the "cigarette burn" marks at the change-of-reel and the time that digital projection displaced film, I'd notice them _every_ time.
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#29Oh no, this like a "cannot unsee"-picture. I will never be able to stay at a hotel again without being troubled by the lack of toothpaste. It begs the question: What else in the world do we not see until we see it?
The gorilla right behind you.
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#30Last time I didn't bring toothpaste I asked the front desk of my hotel and they gave me a bunch of packets. But it would be nice for them to just put them in the room to begin with.