Mum sparks debate about what you can take from hotels – and not everyone agrees with her

, she wrote: "Pinching stuff from hotel rooms/villas, do you do it? Is it acceptable, is it illegal because I actually have no idea."

The mum asked users if they would pinch toiletries such as bars of soap, shampoo, shower gel, rolls of toilet paper, towels or a dressing gown.

She wrote: "I’ve always taken the little bottles/soaps with me when I’ve left somewhere I’ve stayed and thought nothing of it but do people take more?"

Many replied by saying that they "don't steal from hotels" - but users agreed that smaller items in the room were fair game.

One wrote: "The little shampoo bottles I would have taken as a little souvenir and had them in a basket in the bathroom."

Another person added: "I would only take the mini toiletries and sometimes the tea bags and biscuits."

While a third added: "Complimentary items such as biscuits and mini shampoos are free to take."

Someone else said: "I wouldn’t take anything other than the plastic shower caps and I would eat the biscuits."

But miniature toiletries, biscuits and tea bags are the only items guests felt comfortable cramming into their suitcase.

One person wrote: "Towels and [bath]robes they [the hotel] intend to keep are not [to be taken].

"Most places I’ve stayed in have taken a deposit and the cost of any missing items are taken out of the deposit."

Other users agreed too, one added: "I would never take the robes or towels."