I am a huge fan of hotel staycations.
This hasn’t always been the case. I’ve always enjoyed the hotel aspect of trips, but I don’t remember doing staycations growing up. It’s probably a Covid-era thing.
Since 2019 though, I’ve done a couple of memorable staycations. There was the 2019 Christmas staycation at Intercontinental Hanoi Westlake, my birthday weekend in 2020 at Park Hyatt Bangkok, and a couple of other opulent stays at Rosewood Bangkok and Hotel des Arts Saigon.1
The more staycations I do, the more perplexed I get at the puzzling phenomenon of the disappearing loo rolls.
You know how in hotels, they always give you a fresh roll of toilet paper?
So where do all the half-used rolls go?
This question has been plaguing me for the better part of 2 years, and finally today I discovered the answer.
They go to the staff bathrooms.2
I know, how anticlimactic.
I guess it makes perfect sense, but I was hoping for something more suited to the intrigue—some fancy, secretive way hotels make use of all those abandoned rolls.
Apparently there are usually bags and bags of half-used rolls just hanging around hotel staff’s bathroom stalls (literally). I wonder how they manage to use up all of them. I imagine (in normal times) there’d be more guests than staff, and guests usually wouldn’t get to use even half the rolls before they get replaced with fresh ones.
Yes, these are the kind of questions I ask. All the time.
Have you worked at hotels/know someone who does? Do you have intimate knowledge of how the toilet roll usage process works in the hotel industry? I really want to know where they end up after having graced my bathroom with their presence.
Have you also always wondered what happens to those rolls?
Today’s newsletter is a short one. It’s a topic I really wanted to write about (because I’ve been really curious about it). I was hoping for a longer, more entertaining answer to share with you. But we can’t have everything.
Send a reply, leave a comment, share this with a friend who knows where all the loo rolls hang.
Until next Friday… Stay cool, stay safe, stay thoughtful,
Val
Which one did I like most, you ask? I’d take my suite at Park Hyatt, marry that to the breakfast parlour at Rosewood and add on the Social Club restaurant at Hotel des Arts. That would be my dream Frankenstein staycation.