best hotel bath amenities
 

So many 4 and 5 star hotels offer inferior amenities, harsh shampoos etc. <BR>Does anyone have a favourite hotel where they've enjoyed really nice soaps, lotions, etc.<BR>Thanks.

The Wyndham provides juniper scented Bath and Body Works products.

Bath and Bodyworks stuff is cheap and too perfumey. The Carlyle has Kiehl's as does The Hotel Bel-Air which I love. Also, a resort with a spa usually has wonderful bath amenities.

The 4 Seasons in Beverly Hills carries Bulgari shampoo, soap, etc. Wonderful products!

The Hawaii Prince hotel in Waikiki provides Aveda products. aaaahhh.

Four Seasons, Maui--L'Occtaine (I think I spelled that wrong) products are great! They even provide &quot;after sun balm&quot;!

The Le Germain Hotel in Montreal uses Aveda Rosemary bath and other Aveda products. I always go shopping at Aveda when there so I can bring it home with me! <BR>Re: shampoos, I only use my own so I don't have any experience with hotel shampoos. (having used them in the past, my conclusion was that they were all drying and harsh)

Are any of these products available for purchase at the hotels or in local outlets? I understand that Bath and Bodyworks is a major chain, but the Kiels and Aveda and others mention - can they be purchased commercially? (I'm in Canada but will be travelling to the US this weekend)<BR>Thanks.

Kiehls has a web site:www.kiehls.com

The amenities at Westin's properties all smell like bug spray. On a recent stay, my husband who sually could care less about the shampoo he uses on the little patch of hair he has even complained that his head smelled like insect repellent

Smelled like bug spray? That is depressing - and you know it's bad when a man complains.<BR>I guess my biggest gripe is that when you spend a lot for a nice room - the products just don't seem to reflect that - the shampoos are my worst complaint - they're always so harsh, and the lotions too seem very watery - not very rich - which you wouldn't mind if you were staying in a lower-priced hotel.

Arlene, I got my Aveda products on ST Catherine St in Montreal, but I believe the Aveda shops are in most large cities. Check their website.

So, tell me, are you going to select your next luxury hotel stay based on the amenities in the bathroom?

Sofitel Hotels have Roger Gallet bath products. Simply fantastic.

To answer Howard - if I was riding the fence between two properties - yes, the bath amenities could most definitely be the deciding factor. That might be a woman thing, though.

I really liked the fact that I got a big container of bath salts in both the Renaissance Lodge at Sonoma and the Kahala Mandarin Oriental on Oahu. <BR><BR>Aveda products in the bathroom will always make me smile. I admit, it is one of the first things I'll look at when checking into a room.

They had Aveda products at the Radisson Hotel at Fisherman's Wharf - and also a very nice oatmeal soap. I was pleasantly surprised since the hotel was not expensive at all.

Hotel Pacific in Monterey had the Aveda bath products, as did the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite. They smell nice, but the shampoo &amp; conditioners do not seem to work well with my long straight hair. Other than that, I like the products.<BR>We just got back from the Venetian in Las Vegas, and just for the sheer bulk of stuff they had I was really overwhelmed: shampoo (x3), conditioner (x3), hair spray (x2), mouthwash (x2), sewing kits (x2), shower caps (x2), fancy soap (x5), cotton balls &amp; qtips (x2), bubble bath (1), shower gel (x2), dental kits (x2), shaving kits (x2), and scrubby balls (for lack of a better word)(x2). This was for a 1 night stay. I have to tell you, you needed an oversize doggy bag to load up all that stuff! The products weren't gross either. Very light fragrance and not harsh.<BR>My all time favorite bathroom amenities, however, were the ones in the Radisson Hotels in Scandinavia. They were superbly packaged, in clear tub-like plastic containers. The products themselves were each a different color liquid, almost like a painting palette.

Wow! You sure lucked-out at the Venetian. I've never heard of anything that lavish before when you're getting all of those things in multiples. It also seems that Hawaiian hotels are more generous and have higher quality bath items.<BR>I wish hotels would begin to realize that most of us don't want to travel with our own bulky supplies so we really rely on them to have usable products.

What IS this world coming too? LOL Hotels should provide us with high quality products (and maybe multiples--and hey the doggie bags to go with them please) so we don't have to cart around our stuff?! Is there an end? Maybe a wardrobe appropriate for the restaurant? <BR><BR>There are few hotels whose products I care for. I'll use them in a pinch if I forget my own, but I wouldn't dream of relying on them for moisturizer or shampoo, preferring my own, and if my soap weren't so danged messy, I'd bring that along too. I carry my own hairdryer because I can't stand the wimpy ones in all hotel bathrooms. Aside from the hairdryer, it isn't a heck of a lot of effort, and there are handy little containers you can purchase specifically for carrying small quantities of your toiletries. Like it or not, we still are responsible for providing for our own needs.<BR><BR>I dunno, I dunno. Our hotel even runs ads about their amenities...Portico. I read the last note to my DH as he came in. He just laughed--&quot;It's the way people think&quot; he says. Me...I'd never make a good hotelier. Good thing it's him with that job, not me! LOL My mind simply does not work that way. I'm responsible for myself, period, and if I don't choose to bring my stuff along, then I takes what I gets--happily.