Hey, where does all that stuff go?

Spent 4 days at the Cosmo last week. Upon departure their are always things you have to purchase in vegas and can not take back on the plane.
Hair Spray
Sun Screen
6 pack Budweiser as a promo gift at Downtown Grand (did get 2 drank)
and a few other items.
Just wonder if the maids just toss them or they go to a room and they can actually take them home. Some have posted that they purchase a coffee pot upon arrival and just leave them.

Just wondering

Yeah,the stuff that is not allowed.
They took my little Swiss Army knife that I got though Seattle.
Aerosols and sex toys are a difficult explain.
Batteries is what I had trouble with.
'Vegas side is more restrictive.
Suntan lotion:Gone.

You can take those things home on an airplane in checked luggage.

I know that in New Hampshire all of the confiscated jack knives go to the state auction. I bought a box of 400 of them for re-sale 2 years ago. I assume everything except shampoos and junk like that get re-sold

I know you can Bob, we just don't like to check bags since our trips are typically 4 days.

Last year my buddy and I each picked up a free 6 pack of beer in a cooler as a promo at the Orleans on our last day. Since we were both flying out I told him we would give them to whoever checked our rental car in, but it was a woman with an attitude so I didn't offer them to her. Lugged them onto the rental car shuttle bus and when we got dropped at McCarran I offered them up but the driver didn't want them. Finally we went to the Southwest counter and gave them to the young girl working there. She said it was her Friday and appreciated it and would start on them that night.

As for what the maids do with stuff left in the room, I have a story.

Charter trip, upon departure everyone's luggage would be picked up from rooms, just inside the door, starting at 0900 to be taken to the airport.

Check out time was 11:00am.
We went to breakfast, played a few machines.

We had stowed in our room a plastic hotel logo bag containing items our friend had bought at one of the boutique stores.
I didn't place it with the luggage. Put it next to the bed against a wall.

About 10:15 went up to the room to use BR and check out per TV.
Funny, the room had been made up, as for a new guest.
Then I noticed, the bag with Connie's purchases, which I had set by a wall was GONE!

I started calling, got guest services, explained about the missing items, and BTW why the heck was the room cleaned and we hadn't even checked out yet?

Guest Services told me to stay in the room, someone would be bringing the bag up to our room. We waited, about 30 minutes.

Meanwhile I called Connie to let her know what was going on. She said SHE had also had some stuff taken from her room before she checked out, a shopping bag (from Harrah's) of about 12 bags of popcorn and some chocolate things she had bought for friends at one of their shops. She had bee-lined to the housekeeping room, caught up with a housekeeper/cart that had HER (Connie's) stuff on top of the cart, and a male housekeeping person already eating out of one of the bags of popcorn. They apologized and of course gave the rest of it back to her. I told Connie she MUST report this. She was going to let it go, but she did report it.

Anyway, a maid was cleaning the room across from ours and I asked her about our stuff. She pouted while denying knowing anything about it, then said "Security picked it up." I asked "Why would Security go in our room before we checked out?" Of course this was wasted breath as she just shrugged.

Finally, a nice lady in business clothes showed up with my (Connie's) stuff still in the bag. Whew.

This is a very nice hotel, and once again I met with someone and let them know I was bothered that they would enter my room before checkout time and make up the room for the next guest!

I have been told before that items such as cosmetics, etc., left in rooms are taken to the housekeeping closet, and in the case of what appears to be valuables then Security is called to remove them and stow them.

Sorry this was long.

As for airports, I figure they save confiscated items to use for door prizes at the Christmas party. LOL.

I hate lugging around "free" casino gifts. when I do bother to pickup the 6-pack or small bottle of liquor at the players club, I go straight to one of the bars at the Orleans and offer it to the drinkers that are sitting there. there are always plenty of locals in that place and they don't have to worry about getting on a plane. and if they are sitting at the bar drinking, well then I know that they like to drink, and if it is not their brand they will take it anyway and re-gift. it is a good gesture and in most of those cases you get to keep your points, nothing lost.

O2bnVegas,what hotel/casino was that fiasco played in?
You took the time to buy the stuff and carry it stash it in the room.
Dragging SWAG around is no fun.
"Someone took my chocolates!"

What about the stuff that you left in the room by mistake?
If you call and ask that it be returned,will it be done/taken care of?
If not, I'll be there in 6 months to claim my stuff?
I left a rare sweatshirt in the room. It was a Braniff one.
I wanted it back. No one knows what happened to it.
PHOOEY! That was at The Main Street,back in '04.

Housekeeping is on a loose leash,I guess.
I have given out some "gifts" to the street people and food,also.
Especially when I stay at the Fremont with no IN-ROOM refer.
If they look really messed up,no way.

Lost and found is an interesting concept.
Go to the security office and ask if someone turned in a pair of Varney sunglasses.
That place is full of stuff! Don't ask for an umbrella or a winter coat.

If you value an item,ENGRAVE your name on it,in case it gets left behind.
Most of my stuff is disposable.Not my flashlight or my cell phone.Glasses,too.

Traveling is stressful. Jet lag and too much alchohol is a real issue.
Be safe out there.

By buddies wife cleans out hotel rooms. Been doing that for 7 years and she stores the left over beers and sodas for me. They don't drink.
One a month,I would go their place and load up my car with WEIRD beers and sodas.
No more.
The owner said no more. HE sells it or trades it.
It's like employee theft.
Left on purpose or just mistakenly left behind?

It's similar to a towing company that impounds your car and they takes whatever they want.
Guns,stereos,amps. They are just theives.
Engrave your stuff to ID them. "Oh,that's mine!" Prove it.