One way that luxury hotels seeking to appeal to environmentally aware guests are doing it is by providing soap, shampoo and other toiletries via pump dispensers. I’ve seen this in the past at the elegant-and-eclectic Greenwich Hotel in New York City.
Above, road warrior and reader John Ruda just sent me the photos of his toiletries at the luxurious Liberty in Boston, which is a hotel housed in a building that used to be a jail. The hotel’s part of Starwood’s Luxury Collection.
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Less-expensive hotel chains such as Starwood’s Aloft and Element and IHG’s EVEN have embraced pump dispensers.
Readers: Do you mind pumping shampoos and soaps, or do you prefer having your own tiny bottles and bars?
Vail Resorts is planning on going the dispenser route too. While the rest of the world is going the safety route of closed, safety wrapped containers, the hotels are trying to go the cheaper and (greener) route of now using dispensers. There have been multiple situations already where people have put acid in these dispensers (and God knows what else). Vail Resorts and these hotels are not thinking things through with respect to the safety of their clients. Use ecological products, but safe and disposable ways for your clients to use them. And also, it will save you having and losing many lawsuits–since you are responsible for what is in the dispenser.