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> 86% of guests who stay at a hotel for 1-2 nights use it

14% of guests do not use soap?

I can understand people bringing their own stuff for the shower, but 1 in 7 people bring their own soap for washing their hands?!

But them I'm amazed people use TVs too. I stayed in a hotel about 50 times in the last year, I've never turned on the TV.

I'm currently staying in a hotel in Paris, room service are replacing the bar of soap every day. It's ridiculous.

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I bring my own soap for hand washing because hotel soap does bad things to my skin.

The TV might be useful for Netflix. I found Netflix already logged-in by a previous guest in the hotel I last stayed in... just shows that it is used.

I had a week long business trip where I was literally only in the hotel long enough to sleep before getting up, showering, and leaving for the day, so I never used any of the hand soap. I did go through several of the travel sized shampoo and body washes they had in the shower, though.

I especially turn on the tv in foreign countries...gives a vibe for the place.

Usally a shocking vibe as to how many ads people will tolerate.

Provides an interesting insight into a show’s viewership and who’s winning the auction ad budgets.

This is even more fun if you can’t understand anything.

Hotel soap is gross because hotels invariably have super-soft water. Bar soap leaves a nasty film all over one's skin. I always bring my own shampoo and soap dispenser due to this.

If the soap is leaving a film, the water is hard not soft.

A crust is hard water, slipperiness you can’t get rid of is soft.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-does-it-take-so-long-rinse-soa...

If I’m staying at a hotel for multiple days, I like to stop at a nearby store and get full size toiletries. (Maybe even some bubble bath or something to unwind, and some snacks to save on using the hotel market.)

I’d rather use that then try to fumble with the often tiny bottles of soap that are either hard to pry the cap open on or barely have enough soap in the bottle for a single day. Plus I can grab a cheap loofah, too.

It seems realistic that 14% of people would have their own soap.

Do 1 in 7 people use their own soap in office restrooms?

Office restrooms have a completely different use case - they're not trying to turn over occupancy as quickly and cheaply as possible. And none of the office restrooms I've been in have ever used bar soap. And I have input into my office building's selection - I get to complain to the office manager who can then complain to the building management. The result is, typically, some hypoallergenic liquid or foam that doesn't over-dry most people's skin, so they have little reason to bring their own.

In small offices if someone has a preference on soap they can usually get the office to stock theirs or at least bring it in.

And based on what I’ve seen, the numbers are about right.

Add in those who basically never use the hotel room but to sleep and you can get the one in seven.

I've considered it. Most office soap smells so bad. With the exception of Microsoft's soap. It's been close to ten years since I worked there, but I can still remember how good their hand soap smelled.

I can't remember the last time I used an office restroom.

Your prostate (if you are a male) is apparently still the correct size.

I’m working on location this week, I drank about 2.5 litres of water today. If you aren’t peeing during the day you aren’t drinking enough.

You stayed 50 times in hotels in 1 year and you think the new soaps are the problem. That is funny. Compare your own carbon footprint to a person from 3rd world country if you want to talk about ridiculous.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of those 14% of people who don't use hotel soap for washing their hands are people who don't wash their hands anywhere else either.

I bring my own soap for the shower, as the one provided by hotels often doesn't really clean well, neither smells really good. It does double-duty as soap for the hands, since it's higher quality than whatever most hotels have.

I avoid waste, so if I haven't brought my own toiletries I'll use the shower gel to wash my hands.

It's essentially the same stuff.

Well the TVs are for ants. At that distance my phone provides more view per distance. And Netflix.

My wife packs our own soaps for shower but we use the hotel soap for hand washing.

I'm more surprised by how many use the closet

If you have a suit or dress, the closet is a requirement to hang clothes so they aren’t folded and get wrinkles. Also, the iron is nice for a crisp shirt and slacks.

I hang most everything in the bathroom so the steam from the shower helps remove wrinkles.

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