Do you put together a basket for overnight house guests?

[Anonymous]

I would but all houseguests are family. We have snacks and extra towels anyway.

[Anonymous]

WTH? Definitely not.

Guest bedroom in the basement has a basket of mini toiletries, and towels if people need to use them. It stays there, forever. Occasionally if I rack up a lot of free samples, I'll put some more in it.

But I'm not a hotel. Nobody's paying me, and staying for free in a nice, safe location is plenty generous on its own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No we have food and beverages and fresh linens and towels. I show them the cabinet where I keep extra things like toothbrushes and such if they forgot them.

+1

Seriously, who does that? Martha Stewart?

[Anonymous]

I give them all items that would be found in a nice hotel. Travel size toiletries, water, towels, a candle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While thoughtful, a lot of these suggestions are super wasteful. Bottles of water? No way. Maybe a nice glass, coaster and decanter filled with water.

Same with the mini toiletries - do you finish them off after the guest leaves? Or pitch just like hotels used to do.

I use the mini toiletries at the gym
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While thoughtful, a lot of these suggestions are super wasteful. Bottles of water? No way. Maybe a nice glass, coaster and decanter filled with water.

Same with the mini toiletries - do you finish them off after the guest leaves? Or pitch just like hotels used to do.

We have a glass bottle of water and the top is a glass, so we set out a few glasses on a tray and that’s just part of the guest room. If we happen to use hotel shampoo/conditioner, we take the rest of it home and it goes in a small basket for guests. I think that’s more useful than just leaving behind in the hotel room to get tossed. When the small containers are empty, we either recycle them or wash them and refill, depending on how easy they are to squeeze new product into.

[Anonymous]

We have a glass bedside carafe (the ones with cup as lid) for guests, a luggage rack in the room and a box of toiletries including toothbrushes and razors that we bring back from our stays at nicer hotels - Four Seasons, Ritz, etc so they're L'Occitane or similar. We have a couple of sets of towels that are just for guests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No we have food and beverages and fresh linens and towels. I show them the cabinet where I keep extra things like toothbrushes and such if they forgot them.

+1

Seriously, who does that? Martha Stewart?

Upper middle class people and hire income that can afford it. That have stayed in nice places and know that nice touches can improve a stay and make people more comfortable. Not a basket with food and wine since you should already purchase snacks, alcohol, etc - yes, even when hosting family - as a good host. Water, wifi password, a place for luggage and/or to hang clothes, nicer than average towels, a few toiletries.