TheJester
02-15-07, 01:04 PM
Being as The Rover is slacking again, and we are all gearing up for the Vegas party, I thought I would shine some like on how to beat the old "hotel mini bar".
Now, there are all kinds of techniques, but these are the ones that I've used and have worked, so maybe they'll cut down on your hotel bills as well.
The Paper Seal:
Now, it's not all, but for a long time, hotels put this cute little paper seal on their mini bar fridges, just like crime scenes (which we all know, it can turn into, because we killed the bar). This seal is mostly there for the cleaning crew. When they come to your room after you leave, they look at the fridge, if the seal is still there or unbroken, they just go on their marry way. If it is broken, they open it up and see what you took.
Here's how you beat that. It's called a Phillips screw driver. For you carpenters out there, a chisel.
Anyway, you pull the fridge out from under the counter, flip it upside down, unscrew the bottom, pull the bottom off, help yourself to the "treats" inside, then replace, slide back, and no one is the wiser. Well, except the schmuck that gets the room next, opens the fridge to see nothing there, then gets billed for it all. :rockwoot:
Electronic Billing:
I had heard about this one, but didn't think it really existed or had spread so fast. What this is, is that whenever you take anything out of the fridge, even too just look at it, or even after you REPLACE IT, it sends a signal to the front desk, bill the bastard.
I got to one of these, pulled out a Gin to see what kind it was, heard the CLICK sound, and "AH DAMN IT". And what made it even worse, was that I was warned about them, but I was filming at the time, so whatever.
So, as I sat in front of the fridge for five minutes pondering this new dilemma, it came to me. Went to the hotel restaurant, used some hand gestures, then sprinted back to the room.
The secret: STRAWS. Open up, whatever you want, don't remove it, and just suck out whatever you want. This is actually extremely handy, cause then your drinks never get warm, either, they stay in the fridge.
Those are just a couple, people, what have you learned in YOUR travels?
Now, there are all kinds of techniques, but these are the ones that I've used and have worked, so maybe they'll cut down on your hotel bills as well.
The Paper Seal:
Now, it's not all, but for a long time, hotels put this cute little paper seal on their mini bar fridges, just like crime scenes (which we all know, it can turn into, because we killed the bar). This seal is mostly there for the cleaning crew. When they come to your room after you leave, they look at the fridge, if the seal is still there or unbroken, they just go on their marry way. If it is broken, they open it up and see what you took.
Here's how you beat that. It's called a Phillips screw driver. For you carpenters out there, a chisel.
Anyway, you pull the fridge out from under the counter, flip it upside down, unscrew the bottom, pull the bottom off, help yourself to the "treats" inside, then replace, slide back, and no one is the wiser. Well, except the schmuck that gets the room next, opens the fridge to see nothing there, then gets billed for it all. :rockwoot:
Electronic Billing:
I had heard about this one, but didn't think it really existed or had spread so fast. What this is, is that whenever you take anything out of the fridge, even too just look at it, or even after you REPLACE IT, it sends a signal to the front desk, bill the bastard.
I got to one of these, pulled out a Gin to see what kind it was, heard the CLICK sound, and "AH DAMN IT". And what made it even worse, was that I was warned about them, but I was filming at the time, so whatever.
So, as I sat in front of the fridge for five minutes pondering this new dilemma, it came to me. Went to the hotel restaurant, used some hand gestures, then sprinted back to the room.
The secret: STRAWS. Open up, whatever you want, don't remove it, and just suck out whatever you want. This is actually extremely handy, cause then your drinks never get warm, either, they stay in the fridge.
Those are just a couple, people, what have you learned in YOUR travels?