The first thing I do when I get to my hotel room is fill up the ice bucket. Who likes warm drinks?
What hotel is fancy enough to have ice buckets and dispensers but not a fucking fridge?
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a hotel that didn’t have an ice dispenser/bucket, but have been to plenty that don’t have a fridge. Heck, Motel 6 has ice machines and a stupid plastic bucket.
Weird, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ice dispenser. Is this a USA thing?
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?!
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.
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.
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.
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.
In case you have to pull an Inception
Mmmm cooler water is the best. ‘Specially with dirty hands, bugs, rat pee from the outside of the cans, and all sorts of other good stuff.
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?
