Beware the Latest Minibar Scam at Las Vegas Hotels

From Vital Vegas

https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/beware-the-latest-minibar-scam-at-las-vegas-hotels/?fbclid=IwAR17MJRxohYnVZkRZEbstmPMDNVfXCHQIHYqeI9tPOGXM982yLYQS0LA0Ow

  Thanks for the "heads up" - as was stated in the article - this practice is "bullshit" and should be illegal.

Oh boo hoo regarding the charge for the water and cookies.  The guest easily got the charge removed, right?  I wouldn't go so far as to call this a scam.  Just pay attention to things.  And check your "account" on the TV daily.  Anything charged will be listed, and you can take care of it right then.

My gripe is (and here I admit using items from the mini bar) that often the snack kind (crackers, popcorn, M&M type candies) are stale.  Likely they are not used/rotated often.  I put it on my post-visit survey.  Did that change their practice?  Uh, probably not.  

Hotels used to have a card with the mini bar price list, but now you have to get that information from the TV, under something like "Guest Services."  Same for in-room dining, now mostly only on the TV, an inconvenience to have to scroll up and down, rather than having a menu in hand to look over.  I get that prices would change often enough that they'd be wrong a lot of times.

Candy

My take is that if you stay at a Strip ripoff joint like the Vdara, you're basically laying face down on the floor, spreading your legs, and saying "take me." The guest complaining about the charges doubtless didn't complain about the awful odds on the games he played, or $25 a day to park his car, or $30 for a sandwich and coffee, etc. etc. etc.

If you set foot in a Strip rip place, you have to expect to be scammed. And if you assume that ANYTHING in your room is "complimentary," you're being charmingly naive. Hell, the day is near when they install a meter on the toilet ($5 a flush, but FREE for Plutonium Card members!!).

I never fill out the guest survey cards any more, because the only thing they're used for is, casino executives fold them into paper airplanes and sail them out the window. Case in point: the last Strip joint I ever stayed in was the IP, several years ago. It was a shitshow from start to finish, and I filled out the comment card, saying that the entire place should be burned to the ground. When I visited Vegas some months later, the place was still there. Feh!

Once at Flamingo We put something in the frig on top of

the for sale items. Somehow it triggered that we

used item.We did get it taken off our bill.