It’s for drinks. Is that actually confusing? Rather than put an ice maker in every room they just put one on each floor. So if they’re broken or ill-kept, that affects a lot of people.
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Yup. Doubly true when someone wants to use the criminally overpriced mini fridge in their room. Maybe people want their $25 shot of whiskey on the rocks.
Or when the mini fridge has that stupidly buggy weight system that charges you a storage fee rendering it effectively useless
So, you basically need to pull an Indiana Jones and replace the liquor with something else of equal weight?
Well I was talking about when you want to use the minifridge as a minifridge
And some of those have weight sensors to tell if you took something out.
I feel like I'm the only person who goes to a hotel to sleep, not chill a 24 pack of diet Coke and a bottle of champagne to drink (without this hotel ice) after eating a ham sandwich out of my rolling cooler which needs a top off.
Where are you all traveling with your champagne and ham sandwiches?!
That didn't work so well for Mama Cass
Said by someone who's never had to cool down their ~~bear~~ beer with a bad mini fridge or without one at all.
I'm leaving the typo because it makes me giggle.
Edit - oh I was giggling about bears so much I forgot. It's also a service for the local youth Ice Hockey teams. They come to the hotels with these cute little plastic sticks capable of turning a hallway into a ~~ice based turkey shoot~~ improvised game of hockey with ice pucks.
My family used to buy summer passes to the local Holiday Inn's swimming pool.
My cousin and I used to fill our pockets with ice cubes from the machines and then go jump into the pool.
No further questions please.
Too bad, I wanna know how it augmented jumping in the pool! Were you expecting it to in any way? Or was it just ADHD decision making?
It did make jumping in a little more refreshing, but it was just ADHD decision making. We also threw the ice at our other cousins while they weren't looking.
xD Fair enough! Its nifty that it had a noticable impact on jumping in the water though!
"You've got to start selling this for more than a dollar a bag. We lost 4 more men on this expedition."
“If you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it.”
As a kid I thought this was just a weird hotel thing. Got the backstory eventually.
TL;DR: ice became commonplace around the time motel chains spread across the US.
Ice was once an exotic import only nice hotels could offer. Its perceived luxury remained decades after refrigeration allowed manufacture. Hotels could still charge for it, so they did, but in the ‘50s and ‘60s ice went from cheap to essentially free.
Concurrently, roadside motor-hotel (motel) chains spread across the US. Among these, “Holiday Inn” was the first to offer ice as a complementary amenity. Competitors followed suit. National roll-out at every motel franchise happened quickly. Soon nearly every hotel offered self-serve ice as a standard amenity.
Hence our icy embarrassment of riches.
Nice history. Ice is awesome, what kind of psycopath's want warm drinks? Even if ice hadn't been some exotic luxury in the past, I would still demand ice.
Me, i always order warm tap water at restaurants
[almost] Nobody wants warm drinks. Many of us happily tolerate warm drinks.
FUCK I missed your first word, it already pre-aknowledged I'm a weirdo
Everyone is a weirdo in their own way.
Thank you for this comment.
Coolers, wine/champagne, cups with vending machine beverages, water bottles...
Op doesn't have much of an imagination
A shit load of ice to cool your rum. A shit load of ice to cool your cola. A shit load of ice to go in the glass.
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