Feb 05 2007
Travel Booty
Do you take home hotel soap? How about the shampoo?
Do you haul home Hotel Booty?
booty:
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural booties
1 : plunder taken (as in war); especially : plunder taken on land as distinguished from prizes taken at sea
Examples of Hotel Booty
Budget: travel-size shampoo, soap
Mid-range: add conditioner, lotion, mouthwash, shower cap
Upscale: chi-chi brand names on above plus bath salts, sewing kits (does anyone really use these), shoe polish kits
NOT booty: irons, TVs, clock radio, bathrobe, towels, bedding, furniture.
I used to take home the hotel soap. I’ve spent the last 10 years traveling for my job. I don’t take home the soap any more. Unless it’s really-really nice soap.
Unless you fly first class, there isn’t too much Airline Booty to be acquired. Within the United States getting a free headset is pretty much the best you can get.
If you want more airline booty, fly international. I recently flew to Cape Town. International economy-flight booty is pretty much limited to…booties. On Singapore Airlines I got a plastic zipper bag containing terry-cloth booties, a toothbrush and a miniscule tube of toothpaste.
Business Class provides much better booty. Even the booties were better. On Singapore Airlines I received a cloth drawstring bag containing cushiony terry-cloth booties AND an eyeshade.
I also got over a week’s worth of washcloths.
The business class bathroom didn’t provide paper towels. Instead, cloth towels were folded into the dispenser. A small sign indicated that these should be disposed of in the waste chute. I chose to keep them. Wouldn’t you? I mean, they were still good.
Did I take a few extra? Of course.
If you want to see what Singapore Airlines Business Class looks like, check out this post.
I got some fantastic Airline Booty when I traveled business class on South African Airways.
It was so good I’ll have to devote an entire post to it.
Do you take home travel booty?
What’s the best (travel) booty you ever got?
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