No microwaves at Rio for guests-how to reheat food?

Wanted a micro wave to reheat a leftover and water for tea. No microwaves for guests per housekeeping at the Rio. Had to reheat hubby's spaghetti with blowdryer. it worked but took a while. what innovative ways have you used to reheat food at a hotel?

I used to bring a small electric cooking pan, but got tired of hauling it every trip.

I don't like the coffee taste I get when I use coffee makers to warm water for tea so I need a way to heat water another way. do those small water heating elements for coffee mugs work?

I have worked for several large Hotel Chains in the past, and you would be suprised how many people
will come down from their room to the coffee shop and ask with a smile to warm up some food etc. and it has always worked, kind of like heating up a bottle for a baby, secondly I have also had hunters ask me to store their game in our freezers during their stay until they leave, builds good repore with the guests, now if someone had lots and lots of food to reheat, instead of a single meal, I would just say that the health dept. doesn't allow us to do that. So take your container down stairs and say this is leftover from our meal here last night and you should have no problem getting it reheated.

The coffee cup heating elements work well enough for tea or soup. Use bottled water, Vegas tap water makes bad tea.

Electric heating pads sized for back pain wrapped around a go-box will warm leftovers through. If the leftovers come out of a mini fridge it will take 45 min to warm two servings all the way through.

I've used an iron to warm up pop tarts, nothing worse than room temp pop tarts!

All great ideas, thank you. I'll try asking at the cafe next time. I also like the heating pad idea, easy to carry in luggage.

TECramer, how do you avoid the Pop tart from splitting apart or becoming a gooey sugar mess? I don't usually eat Pop tarts, but on tv they are shown with a sugar coating.

I don't buy the ones with frosting so there usually isn't a problem.

Ok, so I'm dating myself but does anyone remember those single hamburger cookers? We had one in the late 70's, it like a sandwich press but made 1 burger. At drill team camp I brought it with me and we made jiffy pop popcorn on it.