Hotels and guest houses can offer non-plastic alternatives or charge guests for items in plastic containers. But the law did not set restrictions on prices.
A Post comparison more than 10 days after the ban started found some city hotels required guests to buy toothpaste, combs, shower caps, razors, among other items, at different price ranges.
Some others offered alternatives free of charge.
The five-star Grand Hyatt hotel in Wan Chai had glass bottles of water and wood toothbrushes for guests.
But it charged HK$15 (US$2) for a 50-gram (1.8 ounce) toothpaste tube. Shower caps cost HK$5 and razors HK$50 each.
The luxury Peninsula hotel still provided guests with plastic toothbrushes, toothpaste in plastic tubes, as well as shaving kits and shower caps free on request, as operators have a six-month grace period to complete the changeover.
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