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New shower soap at MVC resorts

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I know many people probably bring their own soap or body gel to be used in the shower when traveling, but for those that still prefer to use a bar of soap, I was wondering what people think of the new soap MVC is now providing at least some of the resorts. We were at Willow Ridge in September and are currently at Cypress Harbour and both place have replaced the old Soaps made by Sonoma with new soap made by Soapbox. The "Soapbox" soap in our opinion is terrible. Only one size bar is now provided and it is about half the size of what was the square hand soap bar previously provided. In addition, the bar has multiple holes drilled through the length of the bar. These holes end up making the bar worthless after just three showers, as the bar gets mushy and falls apart. I know I'm getting up on my soapbox (pardon the pun), but switching to this new soap is a bad move. It can't be saving money since you need 2-3 bars for a one week stay, not to mention the mess it makes when it falls apart.
 
I rarely use the provided soaps, but I know the soap you are talking about and agree, it is pretty worthless. I am sure those holes save them a few cents per bar to manufacture and when you make millions of bars, well...
 
We know of that soap from stays in some recent stays at Marriott hotels and agree with you, but haven’t seen them in recent MVC resorts. Hopefully that is not widespread. We are currently at MOC and they are still using Malie products, which we love.

Best regards.

Mike
 
They have a new version of the Malie products at MOC that I can't stand. The long-time version was a "Mango" scent, orange colors on the label; the new one is something green that smells very vegetable-y. I stayed in the old (former hotel) section for a week and they gave the Mango products, but in Napili tower they gave the green, so I called Housekeeping and asked that they provide the mango - and they did! I think they are phasing out the mango, unfortunately.
 
n777lt said:
They have a new version of the Malie products at MOC that I can't stand. The long-time version was a "Mango" scent, orange colors on the label; the new one is something green that smells very vegetable-y. I stayed in the old (former hotel) section for a week and they gave the Mango products, but in Napili tower they gave the green, so I called Housekeeping and asked that they provide the mango - and they did! I think they are phasing out the mango, unfortunately.
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Thats interesting. We are in the Napili tower now and the soap is more of a mango scent. Not sure of their overall approach, but we are happy with what was provided.

Best regards.

Mike
 
Checked in to Newport Coast last night and the soaps and shampoos are itty bitty soapbox products. Might as well provide nothing. Smaller than the tiny products in old hotels.

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My mistake, lotion and shampoo something from another company. Still tiny.

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mjm1 said:
We know of that soap from stays in some recent stays at Marriott hotels and agree with you, but haven’t seen them in recent MVC resorts. Hopefully that is not widespread. We are currently at MOC and they are still using Malie products, which we love.

Best regards.

Mike
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I was just reading the post about the Annual Owners Meeting at MOC, and found this is a quite a change coming:

"Shower Amenities: They will be adopting the 12 oz wall mounted shampoo, conditioner, and body wash approach now being used by most Marriott hotels, but will continue to use the MVC Hawaii Malie Mango Nectar. Vanities will continue to have 2 oz body lotion and 1 oz soap."

I guess for your recent trip @mjm1, you still had all the sweet little Malie bottles?
 
Rick likes the First Crush Sonoma soap and I have some I can take with us tomorrow for our two weeks. He likes that it smells like Trix cereal. Looking forward to staying at Grande Vista! Woo-hoo! I will bring my own soap too. Thanks for the warning on that. I bring most of my own products anyway.
 
I like the scent of the new soaps, but I agree that they don't last and fall apart.
 
Thanks for the update. Maybe in the future I'll bring a few small (empty) bottles and fill them up. Maybe if enough people do this, that they'll go back to what has worked for the past 40 years.
 
Maybe everyone needs to request a couple bars of soap every 2-3 days. Perhaps the additional quantity of soap used will offset the cost savings and cause MVC to go back to the previous brand.

Also, if these are Marriott-branded resorts does Marriott not have a brand standard similar to what Westin has with their white tea leaf?
 
marmite said:
I was just reading the post about the Annual Owners Meeting at MOC, and found this is a quite a change coming:

"Shower Amenities: They will be adopting the 12 oz wall mounted shampoo, conditioner, and body wash approach now being used by most Marriott hotels, but will continue to use the MVC Hawaii Malie Mango Nectar. Vanities will continue to have 2 oz body lotion and 1 oz soap."

I guess for your recent trip @mjm1, you still had all the sweet little Malie bottles?
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Yes, they had the small bottles. We just arrived at Ko Olina today and they have them here too.

Best regards.

Mike
 
Too funny this was my exact thought. We went to target and bought our own soap. Currently staying at a Wyndham but back to five more weeks of Marriott maybe I should take the Wyndham soap. The new soap is horrible at best, it reminds me of my old days staying in a motel 6. When it was $6.95 to stay the night.
 
Expect some variation by resort. This is from the Maui annual meeting post.

Shower Amenities: They will be adopting the 12 oz wall mounted shampoo, conditioner, and body wash approach now being used by most Marriott hotels, but will continue to use the MVC Hawaii Malie Mango Nectar. Vanities will continue to have 2 oz body lotion and 1 oz soap.
 
In the past we’ve purchased toilet paper due to the sandpaper quality of what was provided. I suppose now we’ll just add Irish Spring to the mix when we go to the grocery store.
 
dannybaker said:
Too funny this was my exact thought. We went to target and bought our own soap. Currently staying at a Wyndham but back to five more weeks of Marriott maybe I should take the Wyndham soap. The new soap is horrible at best, it reminds me of my old days staying in a motel 6. When it was $6.95 to stay the night.
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$6.95 was all they are actually worth whether it's back then or even today.



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dougp26364 said:
In the past we’ve purchased toilet paper due to the sandpaper quality of what was provided. I suppose now we’ll just add Irish Spring to the mix when we go to the grocery store.
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We usually buy some pump hand soaps when we go to the grocery store. Most often they only provide a bar or two of soap anyway in the villa and I don't want to bother calling down asking for more. A small bottle of the Softsoap usually lasts a week and can be tossed as we leave the villa.
 
Very small bar of soap. They need to put an extra one or two in the vanity. More cost effective than sending someone to bring more.
 
And one thing is with covid protocols they are not servicing the rooms half way through the weeks and replenishing the amenities.

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Lv2Trvl said:
And one thing is with covid protocols they are not servicing the rooms half way through the weeks and replenishing the amenities.

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Outside of Hawaii and the Caribbean, they didn't service the rooms mid week anyway. The loss of housekeeping is really no impact unless someone paid for midweek cleanings. I do find them much more open to calling down and asking for additional supplies now than pre-covid. Before it seemed like you were asking for someone's first born if you wanted more supplies, now they are more than happy to bring it.
 
It’s terrible! I asked for so many extra bars. I used more than normally would have. Which means I threw out more plastic wrappers than I normally would have leading to extra waste.

I do love the le Bain citrus and veviter shampoo the Sheraton had. I spent my 101st night in a Marriott hotel this weekend and I was happy to see the citrus veviter shampoo.
 
mjm1 said:
Yes, they had the small bottles. We just arrived at Ko Olina today and they have them here too.

Best regards.

Mike
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I land at HNL tonight at 9pm. Maybe we can meet up one night this week? Got to check back in and get settled this evening so might be available late this evening.

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controller1 said:
Maybe everyone needs to request a couple bars of soap every 2-3 days. Perhaps the additional quantity of soap used will offset the cost savings and cause MVC to go back to the previous brand.

Also, if these are Marriott-branded resorts does Marriott not have a brand standard similar to what Westin has with their white tea leaf?
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We do this every time it's insufficient. They are not going to nickel and dime me! I am going to nickel and dime them. Coffee, soap, shampoo, whatever and they've never refused the requests anywhere we've been to.
 
Our maintenance fee pays for all the supplies. So we are really just making more money for MVC via the management fee.

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