These are the most commonly stolen items from hotel rooms

Most people realize it's wrong to take things from your hotel room when you're checking out. But that doesn't stop thousands each day from packing their suitcase with a few more items than they arrived with.

In many cases, it's something small that the hotel was likely to discard between guests anyway. In other cases, it's a bit more baffling.

Deluxe Holiday Homes has spoken with over 1,000 hotel workers to determine which items are most popular with sticky-fingered guests. Some of the choices are exactly what you would expect, but others are head-scratchers.

Towels, as you might guess, are the most popular item for guests to grab. Nearly 90% of the surveyed hotel workers reported that they had seen or heard about someone taking one with them on the trip home. Robes were the second most popular item to snatch, with roughly 66% of respondents saying they've seen them disappear.

It gets a bit stranger from there. Hangers were the third most stolen item, with more than half of the hotel service workers saying they had seen or heard of guests confiscating one.

Toiletries, such as soap or tissues, were next – an item many people might think of as complementary, but many hotels consider it theft when you stick those in your travel kit.

Blankets and pillows fill the middle spots of the list, followed by hair dryers. Just over 21% of the workers surveyed said people steal pens, another item that guests view as part of the package.

Dishes came in ninth, which likely also includes glassware from the hotel bar. And rounding out the list is a particularly curious item: remote controls.

Guests might think they can replace the one they've lost or that is broken at home with the hotel remote, but home TVs aren't the same as hotel TVs. Hotel sets are built to allow for centralized control to the sets (and the remotes often have buttons that have no purpose on home TVs).