An increasing number of hotel and resort properties have been replacing amenities which are designed to be used per guest in the bathrooms of guest rooms with dispensers which are mounted on the walls of those bathrooms in recent years, citing cost and environmental concerns as two of the reasons for this adaptation…
Shower Gel? Conditioner? Who Knows What is In This Wall Dispenser?
…but I have been unlucky numerous times, as at least one of those dispenser bottles has been empty or close to empty while I have been a guest.
This happened to me again recently after I arrived at the hotel property late at night, as the wall dispenser bottle which was supposed to contain shower gel was empty after literally only a couple of squirts.
Even more annoying is that the shower gel is also supposed to be used as hand soap, as no bar of soap was supplied in the bathroom of the hotel room. This means that every time I want to wash my hands, I must reach into the shower area where the dispenser bottles are mounted on the wall in order to use soap and pump the liquid into my hand before moving back to the sink to finish washing my hands — something which I find mildly annoying and inconvenient at best.
When informed of the issue, the employee behind the front desk cheerfully supplied a new bottle of shower gel — but she warned that it was in a container which was meant for conditioner…
…and looking closely at the top of the bottle, the white residue of conditioner can be seen…
…in a bottle which is now filled with shower gel.
Final Boarding Call
Somehow, I believe that when the amenities are in bulk wall dispenser bottles, members of the housekeeping staff at hotel and resort properties seem to be more lax in ensuring that they are properly refilled — yet they seem to be more diligent in ensuring that guests had the amenities they needed when they are in single-use bottles.
I wonder whatever happened to that bulk bottle of conditioner which was instead filled with shower gel…
…and do you really know exactly with what those bulk dispenser bottles which are mounted on the walls are filled?
Other articles pertaining to plastic waste and recycling include:
- Single Use Plastic Toiletry Bottles at Hotels to Become Illegal in Hawaii?
- Ban of Single Use Plastic Toiletry Bottles at Hotels to Become Law in New York
- Accor to Eliminate Single Use Plastics Worldwide in All Hotels By 2022
- Hyatt Hotels Corporation to Replace Smaller Plastic Amenities Packages and Water Bottles Worldwide
- Ban of Single Use Plastic Toiletry Bottles at Hotels to Become Law in California
- Bulk Amenities to Replace Bathroom Miniature Packages Across All Brands of Marriott International, Incorporated
- Bulk Amenities to Replace Bathroom Miniature Packages Across All Brands of InterContinental Hotels Group
- Miniature Toiletry Bottles in Hotels: What Really Should Be Done
- Wall Mounted Dispensers Versus Small Bottles of Amenities in Hotels
- Sale of Single Use Disposable Plastic Water Bottles Banned by San Francisco International Airport
- We Ingest Enough Plastic to Eat One Credit Card Per Week
- Single Use Plastic Toiletry Bottles at Hotels to Become Illegal in New York?
- Single Use Plastic Toiletry Bottles at Hotels to Become Illegal in California?
- Stupid Tip of the Day: Use Recycling Bins Whenever Possible
- Earth Day 2019: Clean the World by Recycling Used Soap and Plastic Bottles
- Earth Day 2018: Clean the World by Recycling Used Soap and Plastic Bottles
- Earth Day 2017 — and What Hilton is Doing to Help Save the Environment
- …and the Overpackaging of Hotel Amenities Award Goes To…
All photographs ©2022 by Brian Cohen.
