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That Hotel Amenities story on B2 is the most depressing thing I've read today.

Posted by Mel Profit (aka mel profit) Jan 9 '14, 07:41

They'll pry Room Service out of my Cold, Dead Hands.

I assume this is being considered by the lower end hotel chains?

If I can't get dinner and a cocktails delivered to our room at The Roosevelt, The Fairmont (It's NOT the Copley Fairmont, bitches) or Parker House I will hurl myself off a cliff. I mean it.

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They're doing a pretty good job of making the likes of airbnb more appealing -- nm - con_carne Jan 9, 07:55
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- Revolution! -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:50
I love that they're getting rid of services *and* raising rates. - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:46 5
- All because some egghead doesn't like the percentage INCREASE in profits. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:48 4
  - Exactly. It is the type of business practice that diminishes a brand. -- nm - David Jan 9, 08:01
  - but please understand that I think that many of these changes are a long time coming. I *lived* in hotels for nine months three years ago - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:55 2
    - All jokes aside (*briefly, I've had espresso)...I get the business aspects to all of this. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:59
    - Smart phones have placed all manner of services within reach at reasonable rates when you are in a strange place -- nm - con_carne Jan 9, 07:59
Also, I will not check in with a machine at a hotel. I won't do it. I will burn something down first. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:42 15
- You don't travel for a living...and let's face it, your business is not what they're worried about. - Jim Jan 9, 07:53 14
  - I *love* not having to talk to people. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 07:57 1
    - I love the brief, formal interactions. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:12
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  - And...the highes end hotels will always have these services. But larger hotel companies will pull them from their mid-level chains. - Jim Jan 9, 07:55 10
    - Fascists! Socialists! Any Bad Political Name I Can Think Of! *begins the Molotov Cocktail Assembly Line* -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:56
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      - Further, I'd expect room service to be the first to go. Mini bars may stay awhile, because there's not a lot of cost associated with maintaining them - Jim Jan 9, 07:57 7
        
        The last few hotels I've stayed in haven't had mini-bars. And really, who uses mini-bars (or phones) at the inflated prices hotels charge? - Roger More Jan 9, 08:17
        
        A lot of hotels I've stayed in now have menus from local restaurants that deliver instead of room -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:15 1
        
        sfek... service -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 08:16
        
        I would think that minibars would be one of the more expensive in-room services to maintain. everything has to be counted every day. -- nm - peggy ann mcamanda Jan 9, 08:00 2
        
        couple people making mimimum wage wouldn'tr be too bad and alot of them now have automatic counters that know when you use something and do it automat -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 08:02 1
        
        I feel like Indie at the beginning of Raiders with those things. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:03
        
        agreed -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 08:00
they mention the Hilton in NY -- nm - Beaker Jan 9, 07:42 5
- Give me hope, man. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:45 4
  - This isn't going to happen at any hotel where customers are prepared to pay for the service. -- nm - Roger More Jan 9, 07:49 3
    - Good. If I can't get an Irish Whiskey for me and a Jack and Ginger for Diva delivered to my suite while in my hotel bathrobe - I will start cutting - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:53 2
      - *slaps myself* ...a dry Martini, 3 olives for Diva. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 07:54 1
        
        *slaps myself again* Grey Goose Martini, dry, 3 Olives... -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 08:00

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