The Bulgari products are nice, they also have them at the Villa d'Este in Cernobbio, but my favorite is the Acca Kappa (made in Treviso) white moss products at the Sirenuse. And the St. Regis in Rome has wonderful Hermes products, and will refill them if they "disappear" everyday.

Hmmmmm..the things some folks will pay for when they've been led to believe such is "high end" never ceases to amaze.

Don't know all these high-end stuff, but among the major chains, I love the ginger-flavored shampoos at Westins.

The Hilton Sandton in J'Burg, South Africa has the BIG 10oz. bottles by Camomile. Wonderful, and I brought enough to last me for weeks. They would replace these HUGE bottles everytime (2x a day) as soon as the others mysteriously disappeared :-).

The Hilton Conrads in Asia supplies Muguet D'ogive products. Very nice plus you also get a rubber ducky in your tub and a Conrad Teddy Bear in your bed. I brought about 7 of the pairs home from my last trip together with about 20 bottles of shampoos, conditioners, soaps, lotions. The bears and duckys make a wonderful gifts to young kids.

My favorite in the toiletries line is Roger et Gallet. At one time the Relaix et Château group hotels provided Jean Patou, but alas no longer; now there's a house brand (good, but not Patou!).

Our church choir went on a retreat and we were told to be very very grateful for the reasonable rate we were getting at this lakefront resort. Our room was at the end of a long hall; we noticed cobwebs when we walked in. The soap in the bathroom literally crumbled into pieces in our hands when we opened the packages...wonder how long it had been since someone had rented that room???

Another vote for Bulgari; got those at the [ANA] Grand Hotel in Vienna. They restocked the room twice a day, so I came home with a bucketful.
Also like the Roger & Gallet products. The Sofitel chain provides those, in pretty generous sizes. We're going back for a week-end in April (hooray!), so will get some fresh supplies.
And the Allegro Hotel in Chicago--not that great a hotel--gives Aveda products, which are pretty nice.

LONDON- Penhalligons entire range was used at the Dolphin hotel (closest tube was Pimlico)

They replaced everything which we swiped and the soap smells heavenly.

My favourite so far!

The worse I've encountered are the shampoo in packets and in a soap dispenser located in the shower (it's a combination soap/shampoo dispenser)!

Last year while my daughter and I were driving in France, we shared a couple of oranges and she asked me to give her "one of those handi-wipes from the hotel". I opened it and gave it to her. She said, "Mom, This is making my hands stick to the wheel!" I had given her a shoe shine wipe by mistake! I don't collect those any more!! Mary

I love this thread! For some reason, hotel toiletries thrill me. I do feel really cheap taking them home but I CAN'T HELP MYSELF!

Cigalechanta, I can't wait to get back to Moustiers for those cute little glass bottles of bath oil.

Otherwise, I love the Annick Goutal I picked up somewhere. We were treated to Hermes products at the Prince de Galle in Paris. And, just stayed at the new Four Seasons last weekend (in Tourettes) and enjoyed l'Occitane -- which they also had at their Santa Barbara property I noticed, so it's not just for the new Provence hotel.

Ahhh, life's small pleasures ...

In our little town we have a weekly food pantry, and several people who travel a lot on business collect the hotel goodies for us.

Every few months they bring us a box full of shampoo and soap, and we just put the box on our counter.

When our clients come in to pick up their food, they just help themselves, and some of them have a really good time picking what they want!

A little off the subject, but this reminds me of a time a few years ago when the food bank which supplies our food sent us boxes and boxes of little sample-size Old Spice shaving lotion!

Every once in a while, one would break. Talk about fragrance!

Anyway, our clients loved it!

Byrd

Molton Brown toiletries offer a bar of soap with oatmeal pieces in to act as an exfoliant - very pleasant.

I must add my vote for Bvlgari toiletries too.

The "shavings" in the oatmeal soap are bits of oatmeal!! It is an exfoliant, and oatmeal can be soothing to irritated skin. We first got oatmeal soap at the Swan at Disneyworld. I loved it and found that Yardley still makes it. As long as I keep it in a baggie so that it doesn't dry out completely it's great. If you let it dry out completely it is like using soap with razor blades in it!

"...hotel toiletries thrill me...I CAN'T HELP MYSELF!"

Oh me! Oh my! Now there's something you don't hear every day. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry! Is there an element of kink and/or fetishism involved? Yikes!

If only my own thrill-threshold could be triggered so easily. Unfortunately it usually doesn't kick-in until seeing things like the Grand Canyon at sunset, a Testarossa up close and personal, a pod of Orca whales surfacing, REM in concert...

I am interested in where to purchase the Yardley oatmeal soap that is used at the Swan hotel at Disney World. If anyone knows the exact name and fragrance, it would be appreciated.

Since I don't much care which shampoo or soap I use, I use the ones I get at home (or set out fresh sample size ones when I home exchange so my exchangers have fresh soap). If the collection gets too large, I clean out the house and donate it to a shelter, but that does not happen too often.

After all, it is all soap.

I'm also a fan of the Bulgari Green Tea; you also get them at the Four Seasons in Milan. At the Inn at the Spanish steps we were given a bottle of Bulgari fragrance as a gift from the hotel; but then, the Bulgari shop is just opposite. I also liked the Aveda toiletries at Myhotel in Chelsea, London.
A friend told me that the Burj al Arab in Dubai provides full size bottles of all sorts of lotions and shampoos, from companies like Hermes. And you are allowed to take them home.
By the way, as for nice extras, the Hilton in Cologne has an espresso machine with espresso sachets in their rooms. That's a feature I would like to see more often.