Club Lounge Over Indulging.
Mar 31, 2016, 4:17 pm
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Club Lounge Over Indulging.
I've visited club lounges hundreds of times. I've been staying at a hotel almost nightly for a couple of months. I've never seen so many people pile several plates of apertizers, take so much "to-go" food and take so many cans of soda at once ever! What's the proper etiquette?
Mar 31, 2016, 4:32 pm
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Proper is to eat in lounge. Grab a bottle of water on exit perhaps
Mar 31, 2016, 4:49 pm
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I think the proper etiquette is to sit back and laugh at the people making spectacles of themselves.
Mar 31, 2016, 4:52 pm
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Not gonna lie, I'm gonna soak up every dollar in value I can from my SPG points while I can. If that means taking a sip of a San Pellegrino and throwing the rest away, so be it. Cookies? I'll take a bite and leave the rest like a parent trying to prove to their kid that Santa is real. Bottled water, grab five or six and throw em in the carryon. Screw Marriott!
Mar 31, 2016, 4:55 pm
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What do points have to do with this?
Mar 31, 2016, 5:35 pm
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I generally agree with the should-behave principle... but I recently looked at the rates for a vanilla room and a club room with lounge access at a hotel with a great lounge spread.
Same room type, double the price. So I believe those who pay for this vs Plats who get it complimentary... well I'm sure they really try to get every cent out of it...
Same room type, double the price. So I believe those who pay for this vs Plats who get it complimentary... well I'm sure they really try to get every cent out of it...
Mar 31, 2016, 5:43 pm
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I've visited club lounges hundreds of times. I've been staying at a hotel almost nightly for a couple of months. I've never seen so many people pile several plates of apertizers, take so much "to-go" food and take so many cans of soda at once ever! What's the proper etiquette?
Mar 31, 2016, 5:43 pm
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Mar 31, 2016, 6:23 pm
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I might grab a nature valley granola and a water to go but I agree with OP, this has been something I have started to notice much more recently.
Mar 31, 2016, 6:30 pm
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Big can of worms....
Mar 31, 2016, 6:44 pm
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I've visited club lounges hundreds of times. I've been staying at a hotel almost nightly for a couple of months. I've never seen so many people pile several plates of apertizers, take so much "to-go" food and take so many cans of soda at once ever! What's the proper etiquette?
Cheers,
Mar 31, 2016, 8:09 pm
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Mar 31, 2016, 8:28 pm
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For whatever reason, there are people who have perfectly decent jobs, aren't starving, and didn't live under food rationing for the past 15 years, who go nutso when they see "free food."
Maybe somebody has written their thesis in Abnormal Psychology on the phenomenon and can explain it.
Maybe somebody has written their thesis in Abnormal Psychology on the phenomenon and can explain it.
Mar 31, 2016, 10:39 pm
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I don't drink water, I only drink soda (yes, I know that it isn't particularly healthy) so I always take extra sodas back to my room. I'm not going to drink the bottled water. If I'm on the club floor, I won't take as many as the walk is short. If I'm across property, I'll load up.
Food is a different thing for me. I never take food from the lounge, save a granola bar or apple.
Food is a different thing for me. I never take food from the lounge, save a granola bar or apple.
Apr 1, 2016, 6:17 am
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For whatever reason, there are people who have perfectly decent jobs, aren't starving, and didn't live under food rationing for the past 15 years, who go nutso when they see "free food."
Maybe somebody has written their thesis in Abnormal Psychology on the phenomenon and can explain it.
Maybe somebody has written their thesis in Abnormal Psychology on the phenomenon and can explain it.