The Gouging continues...

Since I always drive up, I bring a regular cooler. If it is for the week it is a full cooler. If it is only for a few days, then I use a cooler that I can carry. I fill them with beer, a bottle of vodka and bottled water. I then use the ice machine. It works great. I've never been told that I can't keep it in my room. I do not want to carry a full cooler in , so I always use a bell man for my luggage and the cooler.

I just tell them I need a fridge to store my service dog in.

I just fill up the plastic trash can with ice from the machine and put my soda in the bottom of it. I rinse it out with hot water before I do it, but that works just as good.

Ray

I've never expected refrigerators as a perk of the room. I can remember when rooms didn't automatically have hairdryers, irons, and ironing boards, and you could call and request them to be delivered.

I'm guessing you can also request (for a price) baby cribs, microwaves, and DVD players.

Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice!
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shut
When it comes to fixing prices,
There are a lot of tricks I know
How it all increases, all them bits and pieces
Jesus! It's amazing how it grows!

Extra pillows or firmer pillows, blanket, roll-away bed, yes. Sex accessories, no. I've tried and been shut out.

I think you can order condoms to be brought to your room.

An older coworker of mine was staying at a hotel in some city where an "extra pillow" was code for a hooker except he didn't know that. Another guy work convinced him to call down to the front desk and ask for an extra pillow. Oh, the hilarity that ensued.

Of course when "she" was actually a he.

The Cosmopolitan takes this to a whole new level.

On my booking confirmation, they expressly state that "No outside food or beverages are allowed inside the guest rooms." Coolers are also prohibited.

There are security guards stationed near each elevator bank. So, would they stop you if carrying cases of beer or wheeling a giant cooler? I don't know. Similarly, will the hotel maid confiscate and throw out any contraband Diet Dr Pepper she finds in your room at cleaning time? Don't know.

I have stayed at the Cosmo before, and never noticed what I have seen at Hooters: 20-somethings carting huge cases of beer to the hotel elevators.