News and notes from around the interweb:
- Holiday Inn front desk employee “You see a guest steal 4 sodas 6 candy bars 2 cup noodles and a bag of chips and put it in their pants… im charging that 22$ to your room 413.”
@thinkjakeryan And im charging that 22$ to your room 413 #fyp #hotel ♬ original sound – Arsène - “Get on the airplane!” Look, it’s really only a problem when they are kicking you off…
After getting yelled at for the 4x by the one and only Ms. Charmaine. @AmericanAir pic.twitter.com/OCyM8khFAY
— Jimenaibarrarr (@minaibarrarr) June 13, 2023
- Louisville hotel launches customizable in-room bourbon carts
- American Airlines and pilots union try to ban a competitor
- No Amex Platinum doesn’t get you better dispute resolution, why do you ask?
- Toy airplane factory (HT: Paul H)
What’s a “grab & go” ?
Are you supposed to pay for whatever you “grab”?? or is just supposed to be like a smorgasbord brekkie bar where people are taking extra for later?
If its the latter, I don’t see any problem and the Front Desk should butt out…
@Dee – a grab and go is a place you still pay for what you grab.
All you need to do is check out when a different person is working at the front desk and say the charges must be a mistake. They’ll be taken off your folio without argument. The margins on these products are so high that the hotel will not put up a fight against the occasional theft.
Pete D. While I don’t doubt that your method would work, it’s still theft.
Ask to block ALL room charges in hotels with overpriced snack bars. I once stayed at a Residence Inn where another guest charged $40 in snacks to my room. Stay in a riffraff hotel, you run into riffraff.
They should specify. Call it grab, pay and go.
These snacks should not be labeled Grab and Go. Maybe it should be put in a vending machine. People are prone to steal. Why complain when they steal. You put it in their sight.
Expensive processed junk food.
Yep. I load up my car. So what.
LOL these snacks are like the beer nuts that nobody one eats. A lot of it has been sitting around forever precisely because it’s insanely overpriced… a fact that the thieves fail to grasp.
Based upon my experience with Holiday Inn staff, a more common problem is staff stealing from the hotel and charging it to guest rooms.
Capital One is horrible about protecting customers from fraudulent charges. They always side with the merchant no matter how much evidence you have. If I can confirm Amex does the same thing, I will drop my Amex cards permanently.