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'Scribble Little Secrets' at The SLS Hotel and Do Some Erasing at Hotel Indigo

Happy Friday! We'd thought after some intense hotel news this morning--Starwood's lawsuit updates, NYC hotel delays and the ruckus that descended up Atlantic City--you could use something easy on the eyes.

So we decided to revisit our newest obsession--the intense deathmatch that's raging on between Hotel Pens and Hotel Pencils. We looked into our pen jar and found that there were a few hotel stationery supplies that we missed like pencils from Hotel Indigo, Hotel Max, and Gramercy Park Hotel and pens from The Four Seasons, Encore and Marriott.

We've since added these to our gallery below but our favorite find was the pen from The SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills which has an acronym for SLS on the side--Scribble Little Secret. Love it.

So what team are you--Team Pens or Team Pencils? Swear your allegiance in comments on the original post here.

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What's Your Pleasure--Pens or Pencils?

No matter how many hotels we sleep with...er...in we always need to swipe a pen from the hotel's stationary. But sometimes it's not always a pen. Sometimes, it's a pencil. Whoa, we know. It's hard to contain your excitement.

But it is interesting to see what hotels use pens versus pencils. We had unsubstantiated theory going that high-end luxury hotels preferred pencils based on a few we had in our collection from the Viceroy, The Gramercy Park Hotel and The Surrey. But then we saw that the Standard and Ace hotels use pencils. And in a recent stay at a Mandarin Oriental, we found a pen next to the notepad. So boom goes that theory.

Anyone have an idea as to why some hotels pick pencils over pens? Is it the whim of the general manager or is a edict handed down from corporate high above? Spill your knowledge and your preferences here.