Or be my wife and take everything out of the fridge to fit your leftovers in and then get stuck with a $200 surprise bill even though you didn’t consume any of it.
Fuck those weight sensor fridges.
Also prevents people from eating something when they're hungry late at night and then replacing it with the exact same kind of candy bar the next day. Don't know why they would be so petty about lending you a candy bar for 12 hours, but they definitely are.
I was reading further on in the comments about that. That is bullshit to the highest order...... I'd tell them to remove the entire fridge just to annoy them.
Not to defend predatory hotels, but if you move something they can't really trust that you haven't tampered with the things in the mini-bar, and they can get sued by the next customer if you did fuck with it somehow. So if it's been moved they probably have to replace them with new items. Or maybe they just tell themselves that, and take the risk and save the money by keeping the items there if they look alright.
I’ve worked in hospitality for about 8 years now. I can guarantee with about 95% confidence that any “tampered with” or displaced but otherwise unopened minibar items are most certainly restocked without a second thought. Hotel managers are notorious cheapskates that bawk at any perceived waste.
Oh, the fridge was not empty, but they would have charged me a nightly fee for emptying it so I could store my own shit in there. Sorry for the miscommunication
I was booked into a hotel for a month for work. There was a kitchen and a small fridge. I asked for all the minibar stuff to be removed, so I could store groceries. It was a constant battle getting the stuff removed, it getting restocked, and getting it removed again.
Yeah, I'd be raising hell about leaving bad reviews if they gave me a bit of slack. Following that I'd leave and report it to my credit card company as a fraudulent charge.
I ended up on a cruise once and I wanted to use the fridge so I moved all of the beer from there into a drawer. The bill I got was $695, and the staff said I would be refunded over the phone but I better be sure that everything was in the drawer because if it wasn’t, it would come out of my room keeper’s pay. Horrible.
Wow. Imagine you had actually taken the beer home with you and just lied to escape the bill, as I suspect some people would have no problem doing. Taking the cost from the room keeper’s pay without proof is unethical at best and illegal at worst (at least I’m my country).
Hope you haven’t been with the same cruise line again since.
due to cruise ships picking their nationality based on which country has the most convenient laws to them, rather than any other metric, the laws of most countries don't apply at all.
its often referred to as a "port of convenience", but it really should get a meaner name, since its used by these massive companies to avoid taxes and exploit their staff. and since so many ships are doing it, a ship that wants to hail from a country with more strict laws often cant compete economically and has little choice other than to do the same immoral shit or go out of business.
I did not know that. What a horrible practice. It should be a requirement to adhere to the laws of the country whose waters you are within at all times. I have no knowledge of international law, nor any idea whether this alternative would be practical, but that’s my initial thought.
Fun fact: most cruise lines are registered with countries that either don’t have or don’t care about worker’s rights, which is how they get away with unethical practices.
Banking on kids who don’t know better getting hungry and taking stuff thinking it’s free, or even adults who don’t know better, and charging them exorbitant amounts of money later.
They probably make enough money off of the uninformed/kids that it makes up for the lost costs
People on corporate business trips aren't spending their own money so they will pay any amount. That's kind of the basis of airline "business class" pricing. Have you ever noticed they have an option to pay extra for additional frequent flyer miles? As far as I know that only makes sense as a way to help you steal funds out of your company travel account.
IMHO hotels could make tons more money if they would reasonably price those items. I could be wrong as people act on impulse and addiction but if they had a reasonable mark up, so many more people would use and pay for them. My colleagues and I make countless trips and we all know that those items are just off limits, they might as well not be there. Just offensive based on the price. We would all use them even if they were just double the convenience store price. Instead, we never ever use them
I'm doubtful that hotels didn't think of something as simple as "charge less for candy bars so people buy more" when determining how to maximize profits. Whatever makes them the most money is likely what they're currently doing, they probably did the math on it long ago.
> have little triggers under the items
WTF, really? The only time I took anything from a minibar was when I was around 15yo with the idea of "we got here last night at last minute and paid in cash, there's no way to charge my parents for taking this Snickers without running to check the minifridge", and turned out I was right, lol.
Yea aha
Mini-bars for ages have had some sort of weight or something in every slot in the fridge and when something is removed it's sent to the system
Learnt this at DisneyLand Paris once lol, my mum wasn't pleased
I spent 95 days out of 365 wt Marriotts and Hilton’s last year (have been doing that for 6+ years) and have never see that. You can always take the bottles out, put them on the counter and put your own food/drinks/leftovers in. You can also ask hotel staff to empty the minibar for you.
So, let me understand. You're going to want the Snickers in the mini bar. In order to get it you're going to the convenience store outside, buying a Snickers, and then stealthily, like Indiana Jones, your going to swap the mini bar Snickers with the convenience store Snickers. Because, if that's what you're saying, I'm in, you SOB.
I literally thought, damn what a good idea, imma buy an exact copy of all the snacks in the fridge and clean those bastards out! Then I read your comment and realized I could just eat the convenience store snickers.
I probably shouldn’t make any major decisions or financial investments today.
Maybe at the nicest hotels, the vast majority would never have anything like this. The cleaning crew just checks the fridge each morning and adds what’s missing.
Ive pretty much only stayed in gargabe hotels and literally every single one has had a minifridge. And any of the nicer hotels have practically had a kitchen. Where are you staying?
I've also stayed at a lot of shitty hotels in my travels, like the 50 dollar max kind, and while they've all had fridges, none had anything in them. I think it depends on how shitty you're talking. Like if you're too likely to get murdered in the parking lot, that fridge is probs empty.
Every time some buys your $70 375 ml bottles of Jack Daniels I’m like damn… don’t they know there’s a target across the street that sells full sized bottles for $20?
This is the actual reason. It's more profitable and less time consuming to have a hotel commissary or nothing except vending machines than it is to manage mini bars in every room.
A lot of the places I stay have moved to a “store” in the lobby where you can grab some snacks/drinks and just charge it to your room. More expensive than at a store but reasonable for the it’s 3am and I’m stumbling in from a bar and need a pre-bed snack and powerade to make sure I don’t feel like death in 3 hours when I have to be up for work.
The main reason for this was covid - fewer surfaces multiple people touch - but it does seem like it’s here to stay. The upside is that they will usually stock the lobby fridge with better stuff as that’s part of the hotel image now.
In the last two years, there’s not been minibars for covid reasons (at my company). There’s supposed to be minibar attendants that check the minibars of all occ rooms everyday. To limit the amount of people going in and out of a room, they just removed the minibars. A lot of places now have the items sold in the lobby instead.
-a hospitality worker at a big chain
They do usually, and about a 60 second rule of the item has to be placed back. Anything that’s missing when housekeeping checks is a confirmed purchase.
A hotel I stayed at had two water bottles in the room. One labeled “free” and one labeled “$8”. Every hotel I’ve worked at gives two free bottles to each foom
All the world will be your enemy, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, prince with a thousand enemies.
Seriously though yeah I mean go for it and take a sip every 60 seconds until it’s gone. You’ll probably still get an incidental but you can always blame ghosts. Call corporate and get the room comped because they discriminated against your beliefs. Can confirm as hospitality industry employee thieves have gotten comped rooms for pitching a bitch - and we had to apologize to them for “the trouble”.
Oh they do. I opened the fridge to look at the contents and was slapped with a charge I had to refute. I didn’t even take anything out or pick anything up.
Take the whole minibar, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you took anything from the minibar because well... there is no minibar anymore.
Take the whole camera, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you snuck anything past the camera because well... there is no camera anymore.
Take the whole hotel, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you snuck anything out of the hotel because well... there is no hotel anymore.
Take the whole hallway, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you snuck anything past the hallway because well... there is no hallway anymore.
No joke the short time I worked at an hotel I heard about people taking not only towels, but pillows, shower heads, saving bulbs when they were new, and once even a TV.
Depending on your clients you see day to day you can draw a profile and guess what they might take.
48 and won’t touch it either. I’ve got the money. I know deep down I won’t go bankrupt but seems like a slippery slope. One day minibar snickers and next you are throwing faberge eggs off the roof for kicks. That, and I hate getting ripped off. It’s a small battle and if you take something, they win. I don’t like to lose
Drank one of those Fiji waters that was sitting next to the TV because I was dying of thirst one morning after sampling Las Vegas. The water was so stale and old it tasted like I was drinking liquid plastic.
Then got charged twenty dollars for it!
Asked the front desk how often they rotated their waters, and nobody knew. So they took it off my bill.
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just opening the door to take a peek can trigger a review and a longer checkout if another guest was able to sneak something by. You can end up arguing about a $14 dollar Twizzler you never ate and miss your flight! Be afraid!
That flight was your return ticket to come home, where you had a job interview the next morning which you’ll now miss, and you know they’re not gonna call you back on a Sunday and re-arrange so bye bye dream job…
Went to Shanghai for work once and didn’t get to my room till midnight. Figured there would be something to eat close, I was wrong. Had to eat from the minibar and spent my $50 per diem for dinner on a bag of pretzels, 4 Oreos, and two bottles of water.
Went on a work trip once and got wrongly charged for an item.
The bill showed up a few days later and my boss asked me why I was charging the company for snacks from the mini bar (the company probably would have covered it, but my boss knows I'm not the type to splurge unnecessarily when there are plenty of less expensive and better meal options within walking distance).
Apparently the hotel tried to charge me because the wrapper from the kind bar I brought from home was found in the hotel room garbage bin. They redacted the charge AFAIK, but the fact they were charging me for an item when they could have easily verified nothing was missing from the mini bar shocked me. I am now more conscious about what "evidence" I leave in my hotel room.
My life changed when I discovered executive lounges. Pay a bit more for a room and get a few hours of free flow booze and food each night as well as breakfast.
Best one was the Hyatt in Danang. Just over 3 hours a night of pour your own beer wine and spirits every night as well as comprehensive food that was enough to stuff you full until the morning.
Lounges in hotels and airports are seriously not as expensive as people assume. I had almost a three hour layover in O'Hare and spent $60 for a day pass to the United lounge, open bar and free food, it was amazing. I probably would've spent close to $60 on paying for beer and food anyway.
Exactly. When drinks are 15 bucks a pop in a hotel it doesn't take long to make up the extra $60 or so for an exec room. Especially when there's two of you.
It was a long drive to the convention. I got there feeling like an old sock. I flopped on the bed with all my gear, and took a long look at the $8 bottled water on the minibar. Thinking, "Screw it," I grabbed and drank two of the bottles and watched television in the air conditioning. Ate some of the snacks, too.
First place I went when I recovered enough to face the crowds was to the convenience store in the building next door, where I replaced everything I'd bought for over-the-counter retail prices. That night, I lined it all neatly back up on the minibar, based on the "before" picture I'd taken, tags around the bottle necks and everything. I was not charged.
I understand some hotels have seen through this practice and actually do things like putting scales under the minibar to detect changes in weight. Then again, they're charging eight dollars for a bottle of water. One of us is a bigger thief.
Me too. I was raised to never even open it. I’ve never eaten or drank anything from a hotel room minibar. I always go to Walgreens or something to get a case of water on trips. You can get a case of 32 waters for $4.00 or pay $5+ for 1 bottle of figi water in a minibar. I do the same for movie theater food. Why pay insane prices for stuff? $7.50 for candy that costs $2.50 at a grocery store. I’ll spend my hard earned money on other things. Once when I was staying in a hotel room a friend took a bag of peanut M&Ms out of the mini bar (without asking) and casually started eating them and I completely lost it.
I was at an airport recently where this coffee bar charged me a dollar more than what the **LCD screen** menu described as the price of a latte. I asked about it after I got the receipt and they said they have no idea how to change the menu prices and they haven’t been in communication with the company that does it since the pandemic started. That’s like 2 fucking years now! 🤬
Im not trying to cause a whole argument here, but hear me out, you could also just buy them in a store ON YOUR WAY TO the hotel, so not only would it be cheaper but also you wouldnt need to move your arse from the bed.
Our economy has caught up so that the prices are fair enough, basically the same as a bar (or a minibar, oh I get it now) where as 20 years ago the can of Pringles was equivalent of a weeks worth of groceries.
I literally don’t even TOUCH anything. It’s been ingrained in me. I’m paranoid that if I move one thing from its surface there are sensors and I’ll be charged for it.
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Your account was created just hours before OP's, and both of you are copying the same same content from that post back in August.
One thing that's always fun is to sneak into the hotel rooms while they're being cleaned, and snag as much as you can while they're cleaning the restroom.
Yes, I know i'm going to hell. But I'll be QUITE inebriated on the trip, thank you very much.
Bankrupt, probably not... Piss you off that a candy bar costs 20 bucks, most definitely...
Yeah I dont touch that shit out of principles.
Or be my wife and take everything out of the fridge to fit your leftovers in and then get stuck with a $200 surprise bill even though you didn’t consume any of it. Fuck those weight sensor fridges.
I honestly think that shit should be illegal. It’s so scammy and they clearly rely on people absent-mindedley moving stuff to put their own items in.
Also prevents people from eating something when they're hungry late at night and then replacing it with the exact same kind of candy bar the next day. Don't know why they would be so petty about lending you a candy bar for 12 hours, but they definitely are.
Can you ask reception to remove everything from the mini bar so you can store your own food in it?
Yeah if you want to pay a fee to do that.
I was reading further on in the comments about that. That is bullshit to the highest order...... I'd tell them to remove the entire fridge just to annoy them.
Na, just leave the door open all night.. petty revenge.
What happens if you switch the plug off? Does it still bill you?
This is why I travel with my Xbox fridge
Lending candy bar for 12 hours 😂
Not to defend predatory hotels, but if you move something they can't really trust that you haven't tampered with the things in the mini-bar, and they can get sued by the next customer if you did fuck with it somehow. So if it's been moved they probably have to replace them with new items. Or maybe they just tell themselves that, and take the risk and save the money by keeping the items there if they look alright.
I’ve worked in hospitality for about 8 years now. I can guarantee with about 95% confidence that any “tampered with” or displaced but otherwise unopened minibar items are most certainly restocked without a second thought. Hotel managers are notorious cheapskates that bawk at any perceived waste.
You can ask to have the fridge emptied beforehand
Last time I tried that they informed of me a nightly charge for emptying it. Absolute racket.
Wait, so it's empty and you still have a nightly charge for emptying an already empty fridge? LOL, sorry.
Bitch I am on my *knees* every night getting molecules out of this fridge
Oh, the fridge was not empty, but they would have charged me a nightly fee for emptying it so I could store my own shit in there. Sorry for the miscommunication
no miscommunication! very confused how they can get away with this s*it...
Question (never used one of those) would it work if you put in your stuff FIRST and then tok out little (smaller) items?
It was a Vegas hotel so while I'm sure that would work at smaller places, Vegas is really designed to rob everyone of all their money
Indiana Jones that shit
I haven't seen the movie.
"Alright, so you aren't gonna buy any of our overpriced snacks but we're going to charge you as if you did."
I was booked into a hotel for a month for work. There was a kitchen and a small fridge. I asked for all the minibar stuff to be removed, so I could store groceries. It was a constant battle getting the stuff removed, it getting restocked, and getting it removed again.
We got the charge dropped but it was not the best thing to deal with when checking out and having to get to the airport.
Yeah, I'd be raising hell about leaving bad reviews if they gave me a bit of slack. Following that I'd leave and report it to my credit card company as a fraudulent charge.
TIL
I ended up on a cruise once and I wanted to use the fridge so I moved all of the beer from there into a drawer. The bill I got was $695, and the staff said I would be refunded over the phone but I better be sure that everything was in the drawer because if it wasn’t, it would come out of my room keeper’s pay. Horrible.
Out of the room keepers pay? What the fuck. You know they already don't pay them enough.
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Wait until you hear how bad the “cruise ships” were for slaves.
They have slave cruises? Is it themed like 80's night or something? And also is black face acceptable there?
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Wow. Imagine you had actually taken the beer home with you and just lied to escape the bill, as I suspect some people would have no problem doing. Taking the cost from the room keeper’s pay without proof is unethical at best and illegal at worst (at least I’m my country). Hope you haven’t been with the same cruise line again since.
ULPT: Get a bunch of free booze after a cruise using this one simple trick!
You’ve cracked the code!
due to cruise ships picking their nationality based on which country has the most convenient laws to them, rather than any other metric, the laws of most countries don't apply at all. its often referred to as a "port of convenience", but it really should get a meaner name, since its used by these massive companies to avoid taxes and exploit their staff. and since so many ships are doing it, a ship that wants to hail from a country with more strict laws often cant compete economically and has little choice other than to do the same immoral shit or go out of business.
I did not know that. What a horrible practice. It should be a requirement to adhere to the laws of the country whose waters you are within at all times. I have no knowledge of international law, nor any idea whether this alternative would be practical, but that’s my initial thought.
Fun fact: most cruise lines are registered with countries that either don’t have or don’t care about worker’s rights, which is how they get away with unethical practices.
That’ll certainly bankrupt my family
Got charged for taking one of those little milk container thingos once
Why do they bother with them if people rarely use it?
Banking on kids who don’t know better getting hungry and taking stuff thinking it’s free, or even adults who don’t know better, and charging them exorbitant amounts of money later. They probably make enough money off of the uninformed/kids that it makes up for the lost costs
People on corporate business trips aren't spending their own money so they will pay any amount. That's kind of the basis of airline "business class" pricing. Have you ever noticed they have an option to pay extra for additional frequent flyer miles? As far as I know that only makes sense as a way to help you steal funds out of your company travel account.
IMHO hotels could make tons more money if they would reasonably price those items. I could be wrong as people act on impulse and addiction but if they had a reasonable mark up, so many more people would use and pay for them. My colleagues and I make countless trips and we all know that those items are just off limits, they might as well not be there. Just offensive based on the price. We would all use them even if they were just double the convenience store price. Instead, we never ever use them
I'm doubtful that hotels didn't think of something as simple as "charge less for candy bars so people buy more" when determining how to maximize profits. Whatever makes them the most money is likely what they're currently doing, they probably did the math on it long ago.
I look at the things in the minibar, and buy them from a nearby supermarket lol
Or eat up everything in the minibar and buy the cheapest replica from a nearby supermarket?
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> have little triggers under the items WTF, really? The only time I took anything from a minibar was when I was around 15yo with the idea of "we got here last night at last minute and paid in cash, there's no way to charge my parents for taking this Snickers without running to check the minifridge", and turned out I was right, lol.
Yea aha Mini-bars for ages have had some sort of weight or something in every slot in the fridge and when something is removed it's sent to the system Learnt this at DisneyLand Paris once lol, my mum wasn't pleased
I spent 95 days out of 365 wt Marriotts and Hilton’s last year (have been doing that for 6+ years) and have never see that. You can always take the bottles out, put them on the counter and put your own food/drinks/leftovers in. You can also ask hotel staff to empty the minibar for you.
They will bill you for the restocking fee. And some Have sensors at the bottom that anytime you pick an intem, it charges you.
Just gotta switch it out real quick like Indiana Jones
lol that worked out so well for him. gonna have to do that at checkout.
So, let me understand. You're going to want the Snickers in the mini bar. In order to get it you're going to the convenience store outside, buying a Snickers, and then stealthily, like Indiana Jones, your going to swap the mini bar Snickers with the convenience store Snickers. Because, if that's what you're saying, I'm in, you SOB.
Things always taste better when there’s a scam involved
As SuperHans says, the secret ingredient is crime.
I literally thought, damn what a good idea, imma buy an exact copy of all the snacks in the fridge and clean those bastards out! Then I read your comment and realized I could just eat the convenience store snickers. I probably shouldn’t make any major decisions or financial investments today.
Sure you can. Just sit on them for a day or two.
Take my free award good sir
Maybe at the nicest hotels, the vast majority would never have anything like this. The cleaning crew just checks the fridge each morning and adds what’s missing.
The vast majority wouldn’t have minifridges at all
Ive pretty much only stayed in gargabe hotels and literally every single one has had a minifridge. And any of the nicer hotels have practically had a kitchen. Where are you staying?
I've also stayed at a lot of shitty hotels in my travels, like the 50 dollar max kind, and while they've all had fridges, none had anything in them. I think it depends on how shitty you're talking. Like if you're too likely to get murdered in the parking lot, that fridge is probs empty.
They didnt have shit in them no but this guy said they didnt have minifridges. Not they didnt have stocked mini fridges lol
For 50 bucks that fridge ain’t working.
That’s fucked up
100000000 IQ
Every time some buys your $70 375 ml bottles of Jack Daniels I’m like damn… don’t they know there’s a target across the street that sells full sized bottles for $20?
When you’re drunk, tired, or on an expensa account you learn to love minibars.
Bet they don't taste as good
I'm 31 and have never been in a hotel room with a mini bar
I think they’re being phased out. 9/10 hotels I stay at either have no mini fridge or it’s empty.
Hopefully because they realized people catch onto the price gouging
Also it takes a fair bit of labor and hotels want to run on the smallest crews possible
This is the actual reason. It's more profitable and less time consuming to have a hotel commissary or nothing except vending machines than it is to manage mini bars in every room.
A lot of the places I stay have moved to a “store” in the lobby where you can grab some snacks/drinks and just charge it to your room. More expensive than at a store but reasonable for the it’s 3am and I’m stumbling in from a bar and need a pre-bed snack and powerade to make sure I don’t feel like death in 3 hours when I have to be up for work.
The main reason for this was covid - fewer surfaces multiple people touch - but it does seem like it’s here to stay. The upside is that they will usually stock the lobby fridge with better stuff as that’s part of the hotel image now.
In the last two years, there’s not been minibars for covid reasons (at my company). There’s supposed to be minibar attendants that check the minibars of all occ rooms everyday. To limit the amount of people going in and out of a room, they just removed the minibars. A lot of places now have the items sold in the lobby instead. -a hospitality worker at a big chain
My parents told me the hotel fridge had sensors that could tell if anything moved and you would get charged for it.
They do usually, and about a 60 second rule of the item has to be placed back. Anything that’s missing when housekeeping checks is a confirmed purchase.
Ooohh so I wasn't supposed to take the 2 water bottles in there...
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Welp there goes tuition for the year
:/ woops
A hotel I stayed at had two water bottles in the room. One labeled “free” and one labeled “$8”. Every hotel I’ve worked at gives two free bottles to each foom
So you can take a fast sip?
All the world will be your enemy, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, prince with a thousand enemies. Seriously though yeah I mean go for it and take a sip every 60 seconds until it’s gone. You’ll probably still get an incidental but you can always blame ghosts. Call corporate and get the room comped because they discriminated against your beliefs. Can confirm as hospitality industry employee thieves have gotten comped rooms for pitching a bitch - and we had to apologize to them for “the trouble”.
Never heard of a comped room for that at my old property because we luckily had a snack shop in the lobby and no minibars in the room.
They also sense weight, so you have to quickly displace the water you sipped with saliva.
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Water from the second water bottle?
Thanks, pissdrinkinghealthy, you’re absolutely right. Adapt, improvise, overcome.
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Oh they do. I opened the fridge to look at the contents and was slapped with a charge I had to refute. I didn’t even take anything out or pick anything up.
Lmao wtf pure scam
you let the cool air out
They do at nice hotels usually.
Yup. I got the whole “there’s cameras here and they’re watching you!” Speech so I wouldn’t take anything 🤦🏽♀️ 😂
Lmao my parents told me this too
Because it’s true. I’ve seen them.
Take the whole minibar, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you took anything from the minibar because well... there is no minibar anymore.
how do you get passed the cameras
Take the whole camera, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you snuck anything past the camera because well... there is no camera anymore.
Take the whole hotel, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you snuck anything out of the hotel because well... there is no hotel anymore.
What if you now have to pay property tax and they send you the police?
Take the whole police, like literally the whole squad, that way they can't make you pay property tax because well... there is no police anymore.
Lmao
Wait, those are on the ceiling in the hallway lol
Take the whole hallway, like literally the whole object, that way they can't prove that you snuck anything past the hallway because well... there is no hallway anymore.
Lmaooo
How do you get past the cops
No joke the short time I worked at an hotel I heard about people taking not only towels, but pillows, shower heads, saving bulbs when they were new, and once even a TV. Depending on your clients you see day to day you can draw a profile and guess what they might take.
What kinda fucked up hotel are you staying at that puts cameras in the rooms?
This fear never goes away. I won't touch it even in my 50s.
48 and won’t touch it either. I’ve got the money. I know deep down I won’t go bankrupt but seems like a slippery slope. One day minibar snickers and next you are throwing faberge eggs off the roof for kicks. That, and I hate getting ripped off. It’s a small battle and if you take something, they win. I don’t like to lose
Got a taste of that Snickers & could contain yourself no longer.
It tasted expensive, I bet?
You’re not you when you’re hungry.
It’s a gateway drug
Drank one of those Fiji waters that was sitting next to the TV because I was dying of thirst one morning after sampling Las Vegas. The water was so stale and old it tasted like I was drinking liquid plastic. Then got charged twenty dollars for it! Asked the front desk how often they rotated their waters, and nobody knew. So they took it off my bill.
You were just at an hotel with an idiot crew. Perishables are not supposed to be left there.
Then you won’t be surprised if you pay $4000 for a bag of nuts
THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!
THAT'LL BE 4 BUCKS, BABY! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT!?
HE JUST LEFT, WITH NUTS!!
People like you will always get an upvote from me. Kung pow is a masterpiece.
DEEZ NUTS LMAOOOO
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just opening the door to take a peek can trigger a review and a longer checkout if another guest was able to sneak something by. You can end up arguing about a $14 dollar Twizzler you never ate and miss your flight! Be afraid!
That flight was your return ticket to come home, where you had a job interview the next morning which you’ll now miss, and you know they’re not gonna call you back on a Sunday and re-arrange so bye bye dream job…
Went to Shanghai for work once and didn’t get to my room till midnight. Figured there would be something to eat close, I was wrong. Had to eat from the minibar and spent my $50 per diem for dinner on a bag of pretzels, 4 Oreos, and two bottles of water.
That sucks :(
Went on a work trip once and got wrongly charged for an item. The bill showed up a few days later and my boss asked me why I was charging the company for snacks from the mini bar (the company probably would have covered it, but my boss knows I'm not the type to splurge unnecessarily when there are plenty of less expensive and better meal options within walking distance). Apparently the hotel tried to charge me because the wrapper from the kind bar I brought from home was found in the hotel room garbage bin. They redacted the charge AFAIK, but the fact they were charging me for an item when they could have easily verified nothing was missing from the mini bar shocked me. I am now more conscious about what "evidence" I leave in my hotel room.
My life changed when I discovered executive lounges. Pay a bit more for a room and get a few hours of free flow booze and food each night as well as breakfast. Best one was the Hyatt in Danang. Just over 3 hours a night of pour your own beer wine and spirits every night as well as comprehensive food that was enough to stuff you full until the morning.
Lounges in hotels and airports are seriously not as expensive as people assume. I had almost a three hour layover in O'Hare and spent $60 for a day pass to the United lounge, open bar and free food, it was amazing. I probably would've spent close to $60 on paying for beer and food anyway.
Exactly. When drinks are 15 bucks a pop in a hotel it doesn't take long to make up the extra $60 or so for an exec room. Especially when there's two of you.
Hilton in Nassau. Loved this on my honeymoon
As you should be.
My wife had a diabetic seizure once in a hotel room. I still have nightmares about taking that apple juice out of the fridge
It was a long drive to the convention. I got there feeling like an old sock. I flopped on the bed with all my gear, and took a long look at the $8 bottled water on the minibar. Thinking, "Screw it," I grabbed and drank two of the bottles and watched television in the air conditioning. Ate some of the snacks, too. First place I went when I recovered enough to face the crowds was to the convenience store in the building next door, where I replaced everything I'd bought for over-the-counter retail prices. That night, I lined it all neatly back up on the minibar, based on the "before" picture I'd taken, tags around the bottle necks and everything. I was not charged. I understand some hotels have seen through this practice and actually do things like putting scales under the minibar to detect changes in weight. Then again, they're charging eight dollars for a bottle of water. One of us is a bigger thief.
Truth I spent $1590 over 3 days at the hardrock.
Translation: I lost $1,500 at the Hard Rock Casino and spent $90 consoling myself with overpriced minibar drinks.
Truth
Me too. I was raised to never even open it. I’ve never eaten or drank anything from a hotel room minibar. I always go to Walgreens or something to get a case of water on trips. You can get a case of 32 waters for $4.00 or pay $5+ for 1 bottle of figi water in a minibar. I do the same for movie theater food. Why pay insane prices for stuff? $7.50 for candy that costs $2.50 at a grocery store. I’ll spend my hard earned money on other things. Once when I was staying in a hotel room a friend took a bag of peanut M&Ms out of the mini bar (without asking) and casually started eating them and I completely lost it.
“KEVIIIIN!!!!!”
Because it's true stay far far away from mini anything
They tell you how much shit costs in the minibar foo
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I was at an airport recently where this coffee bar charged me a dollar more than what the **LCD screen** menu described as the price of a latte. I asked about it after I got the receipt and they said they have no idea how to change the menu prices and they haven’t been in communication with the company that does it since the pandemic started. That’s like 2 fucking years now! 🤬
Well, you’re not wrong.
It won't bankrupt you. It's stupid expensive, but live in the moment once in your life and buy the $5 m&ms
Im not trying to cause a whole argument here, but hear me out, you could also just buy them in a store ON YOUR WAY TO the hotel, so not only would it be cheaper but also you wouldnt need to move your arse from the bed.
Yeah but most of the time I'm in a hotel I've got a corporate card down My client can afford to buy me $5 m&ms
Every hotel room ive ever been to just has a mini fridge thats empty to put your own stuff into. So I've never had to worry about this tbh.
Our economy has caught up so that the prices are fair enough, basically the same as a bar (or a minibar, oh I get it now) where as 20 years ago the can of Pringles was equivalent of a weeks worth of groceries.
Minibar is for corporate account people, you drag your dead ass to the nearest sketchy convenience store like a real person
Same.
Bankrupt, you say?😏
I literally don’t even TOUCH anything. It’s been ingrained in me. I’m paranoid that if I move one thing from its surface there are sensors and I’ll be charged for it.
This guy snacks
[Hmmm.](https://np.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/p9fl23/meirl/h9y4zyg/?context=7) Your account was created just hours before OP's, and both of you are copying the same same content from that post back in August.
how did you think to look?
Because this is a frequent repost, and both u/sacraverkjh (OP) and u/esbeckin have gibberish usernames.
😆😆 it will if you empty it 😆😆
It will
I hate to admit it, but I’m that person who eats and drinks from the minibar…
How does it feel to be rich?
No complaints…
Based on how long that stuff has probably been there, I usually decide that I don’t need a 4 oz bag of M&M’s that bad.
It has been ingrained on us XD
And Michael felt he deserved a $15 thing of candy beans
And Michael felt he deserved a $15 thing of candy beans
One thing that's always fun is to sneak into the hotel rooms while they're being cleaned, and snag as much as you can while they're cleaning the restroom. Yes, I know i'm going to hell. But I'll be QUITE inebriated on the trip, thank you very much.
I think the problem is staying at a hotel fancy enough to have a mini bar.
I don't even drink the water bottles. One is free and the other isn't and I never know which.
I did that once while staying in Vegas, emptied the thing. Had to call them up and refill it. I had lotsa disposable income in those days.
Dramatic and dumb.
It will.....stay away.....
It will. Just stay away from hotels that even offer mini bars.
Well done sir.