"YOU'RE NICKED" Chain hotels are keeping ‘no-stay’ lists with the names of guests who nick things from the rooms.

WHY?:
More than £5m of bathrobes are stolen from UK hotels a year – and eight in ten guests have admitted taking something from their room as a souvenir.

MOST guests see the miniatures of shampoo and conditioner as fair game when on holiday – taking them back home as souvenirs of their break.

Others even stretch to a pair of the white slippers that are loaned to guests at posher hotels.

Hotels are increasingly adding troublesome guests who steal things like bathrobes to ''no-stay lists'

In fact, more than £5m of bathrobes are stolen from UK hotels a year – and eight in ten guests have admitted to taking something from the room as a souvenir of their stay.

But getting a bit too light-fingered could cause you some serious problems down the line.

Most of the time, hotels don’t chase the offender for payment of stolen items like dressing gowns and coffee mugs.

That’s mainly for two reasons - not only is it very hard to pinpoint which guest stole something, but they also often factor theft into their annual budget.

More than £5m of bathrobes are stolen from UK hotels a year.

But, that doesn’t mean it won’t cause you a headache – because hotels are increasingly adding troublesome guests to “no-stay lists”.

NBC has reported that many hotels have a database of names that they refuse to host again.

If that is a large chain then things could get tricky, as some companies actually exchange their lists with other hotel companies too.

One former hotel work told the news website: “Get in trouble at a Hilton in Miami, for example, and you may find it hard to get a reservation at a Holiday Inn in Seattle.”

Many hotels have a database of names that they refuse to host again.

While guests are mainly blacklisted for abusing staff, leaving without settling the bill or causing damage to the property, stealing the towels can also get you banned.

There is even a UK-wide blacklist database called Guestscan that allows smaller independent hotels and B&B’s to access a “no-stay list” of dodgy guests, with thousands of businesses signed up.

While this may seem like an overreaction for guests who simply want to take a tiny memento of their holiday, businesses say that even the smallest of thefts really start to add up.

An hotelier called Richard Gale said on Quora: “Main losses are small value items, like tea spoons.