There is an indoor pool, free (non-alcoholic) drinks from the minibar and even better, free WiFi.
BBC: Travel - Openings: Beijing, Cura?ao, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, India
In my room, a sign indicating the direction of prayer was posted over the nonalcoholic minibar.
Finally, the Bazaar in Los Angeles and even more so Minibar, the six-seat postmodern countertop in D.
The most curious of the items sold were a handful of minibar-sized bottles of Smirnoff, Bombay and Grand Marnier.
FORBES: Bernie Madoff's Wine Collection Brings In Double The Estimate At Auction
Other hotels especially luxury spots are taking the opposite tack, throwing in free minibar goodies.
The Soho Hotel in London has a great staff and bar, unbeatable location and the minibar has nice Italian wine.
FORBES: On The Hunt For America's Best Sandwich, Travel Channel's Adam Richman Talks Favorite Hotels
Software can track how long items have been sitting in the minibar, cutting down on the problem of expired snacks.
During a business trip to Chicago a couple of years ago, Douglas MacKenzie bumped into the minibar at his hotel.
"The minibar thought I ate everything in it, " said Mr. MacKenzie, director of communications for VisitPhoenix, the Arizona city's tourism bureau.
California bought energy contracts at minibar prices, says the comedian Dennis Miller.
The latter provided an armchair, a black leather-covered desk, a full-length mirror and a minibar with an espresso machine in a mirrored backlit niche.
The accommodations, located adjacent to the resort's spa, will also get healthier minibar snacks and room-service menu items, says Tom Voss, the resort's president.
Drinking plenty of water and using oxygen (you may even find a can of it in your hotel minibar) can help you feel better.
And forget replacing a minibar's high-priced sodas with your own snacks.
Only 27 percent of room service bills and only 19 percent of minibar claims are reimbursed without query for finance professionals, compared with an average of 39 percent.
Hotels and minibar manufacturers say these can cut labor costs since employees only have to check the roughly 25%-30% of rooms that use the minibar on a given day.
Today, it is Washington's elites, not just Wall Street's, who make news flying to golf vacations in Florida and skiing trips in Aspen, enjoying haute cuisine at Washington's tony Minibar.
Other hotels are trying to dial up the temptation and sales by breaking goodies out of the minibar altogether: It may be harder to resist that chocolate bar if it's staring at you from the TV stand.
Your hosts can also open doors to hard-to-visit wineries, custom-stock your already well-stuffed (and free) minibar, book a chef to prepare dinner in your room, or--in my case--badger a rental car company into swapping out a lemon and delivering the replacement.
应用推荐