I've been working for years to get my fire dispensers into hotels but the useless ice dispenser lobby keeps blocking me.
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comments are forgetting there's a fridge in the room
I don't agree.
It's early afternoon and you're on the front end of a 48 hour work trip. You just got off a plane in Cedar Rapids, found a rental car, and drove to the hotel. You've been traveling since 7:00am, the water bottle that you refilled at the connection in Chicago and again at the destination in Cedar Rapids is both disgustingly warm and mostly empty. The rental car was hot as fuck because it's Cedar Rapids in July and the rental cars are sitting in an open lot rather than a garage.
Let's Zork this out.
You need to cool down and rehydrate. Do you: a) buy a single use refrigerated bottle of water b) remember that there's a fridge in the room and wait for 2 hours c) go east d) get yourself some bucket ice and tap water
Side quest pro-tip: do not pick up the metal bar
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This, lol. Most hotels have a mini fridge. Seems like a better way to keep drinks cold than ice.
I like cold drinks.
I also like chewing on ice.
For some drinks, such as Sprite, I like the drink-flavored ice more than I like the cold drink.
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Not if you want to chill drinks quickly. Not everyone is spending multiple nights in their hotel rooms to have enough time to wait for the fridge to do it's thing.
Every time my ex and I would check into a hotel she'd immediately fill the ice bucket. And it would sit there, unused, until we checked out or it melted, at which time she'd have me empty it and fill it with ice again, which would then just sit there and melt.
I didn't understand it at all.
Your wife will do well when the water wars start and you'd be wise to start following her lead.
As as aside, next time you know you're going to a hotel bring a secret, second ice bucket to fill shortly after she fills the hotel one. Bonus points if you can acquire it from the hotel so they're identical.
Don't mention it or anything, just let her work out the logistics of what happened when she notices. If she's as serious about hotel ice as she sounds, you'll probably get laid right then and there.
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Hotel's need good ice dispensers so that you can fill a bathtub with ice after removing your tinder date's kidneys.
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Ice bucket. We chill wine bottles.
Most hotels have mini fridges
an ice bucket chills something waaaaaay faster than a mini fridge or even a mini fridge with a freezer
The last hotel I stayed at (fancy expensive hotel for a company gathering) had a mini fridge stocked with ridiculously expensive items, in such a way that the fridge was unusable for outside items. There was also a note that any items removed from the fridge would automatically be charged to the room. There was one bottle of complimentary water on the counter though.
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I was going to say liquor, but yeah. You can use it for soda too if you buy a 12 pack and bring it back to the hotel with you instead of letting the drink machine nickel and dime you.
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Some of us are from the warmer climes and appreciate the healing power of ice. And soon, all of us will be from the warmer climes.
Except Britain and the rest of northwestern Europe. It's going to be plunged into an ice age by the collapse of the gulf stream.
Your point is correct, but it’s the slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, that’s the real problem. The Gulf Stream is just a part of its system.
And I'm still not sure if that'll be better or worse.
It can only be a good thing. Think of all that ice!
Ice ... cream? Now I'm really looking forward to it.
Well if it means that I can finally afford a house then I’m all for it.
Hahahahaha . . . no. No, no.
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Does this person not drink anything while at a hotel? Or never need to leave someone in a bathtub full of ice after stealing their kidney?
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In case you have to pull an Inception
Americans tend to like ice in their water and in their drinks. When I was a kid, my family would typically grab a bucket full of ice to cool down the tap water we would drink in the evenings.
Hotel ice can be really funky, though, and I think the practice may be falling out of fashion in any case.
Hard pass on putting the ice in drinks. This is true of hotels and any fast food or restaurant: their ice dispensers are absolutely crawling with bacteria. Some probably even have live rats in them. Don't fuck with ice, they're all disgusting.
Man why you gotta hassle the ice rats man. They just trying to get by, y’know.
This is it. And it's because tap water can be really different from locale to locale. If you're not used to it, it can taste quite bad. And room temperature water from the tap can enhance the flavor. So people put ice in it to cover it up.
He's also correct in that those ice machines never really get cleaned.
I once left a 5 star review for a hotel purely because the hotel was what I expect from a hotel, but there was someone actively cleaning out the ice machine while we were bringing stuff into the room.
Nothing seemed eslecially clean or cared for while we were there, but I had never seen someone clean one before. Or cleaned the drink dispensers after breakfast is over.
I actually have a UV light I take with me on trips for both rock hunting and for hotels. Some hotels you just learn to avoid.
The first thing I do when I get to my hotel room is fill up the ice bucket. Who likes warm drinks?
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