comments are forgetting there’s a fridge in the room
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.
You like chewing on hotel ice? The other comments in here would have me believe you should be dead.
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
C, provided east is the local grocery store:
- Get one cold beverage from the refrigerated section, drink it while getting something hot (I like the chicken fingers and potato wedges all grocery stores seem to have)
- Get a 6-pack of something tasty (I like fancy root beer)
- Drink cold one on the way back
- Put ice on bucket (nobody should be consuming the I’ve directly) and a couple bottles in the ice, and the rest in the mini fridge
- Poop and shower
- Enjoy what’s left of your evening with the frosty root beers and hopefully still-warm chicken and wedges
I bring my Steam Deck along with me, so I’d much rather stay in with my chicken fingers and soda than meet up with people I probably don’t like much anyway.
Lots of joke replies but the real answer is because people travel with yeti coolers and sometimes it won’t all fit in the fridge.
Wtf is a yeti cooler? I didn’t know so many people are trying to smuggle yetis out of the Himalayas.
I’ve been working for years to get my fire dispensers into hotels but the useless ice dispenser lobby keeps blocking me.
There is no need for such a frosty reception. I thought their comment was pretty cool.
In case you have to pull an Inception
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?!
