Hotel Charges For Outside Food Or Drink Brought To Your Room !
Aug 5, 2015, 11:03 pm
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Hotel Charges For Outside Food Or Drink Brought To Your Room !
This is happening at the Queen Wood Hotel in Phnom Penh. It's a 3* Riverside place that goes for about $35/night.$10 corkage for a bottle of wine or a case of beer and $5/plate of food. I've never seen such a thing. How about you ? Here's a link to the thread on Cambodian Expats Online: http://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/gene...oom-t5909.html
Aug 5, 2015, 11:28 pm
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Food smells...food stains on linen, food falling behind a not-to-easy to access area (behind a heavy bed for example) and the waste or container goes in the bin that sits in the room till the cleaner goes in the next day. We are more than happy for guests to bring their own food into our hostel and we will even supply them with plates and cutlery but we are in the minority with that. Almost all budget back packer hostels in Cambodia have strict no outside food AND drink policies.
A couple of guests at that hotel have died this year, it really is ground zero for sex tourists.
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Aug 6, 2015, 5:19 pm
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Aug 8, 2015, 1:05 pm
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This is happening at the Queen Wood Hotel in Phnom Penh. It's a 3* Riverside place that goes for about $35/night.$10 corkage for a bottle of wine or a case of beer and $5/plate of food. I've never seen such a thing. How about you ? Here's a link to the thread on Cambodian Expats Online: http://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/gene...oom-t5909.html
Works for me.
Aug 9, 2015, 3:20 pm
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I saw this at an expensive resort in Bodrum, Turkey. In principle, they were charging the prices that the hotel would have charged for F&B not purchased on the property, including even bottled water that didn't come from their overpriced gift shop, the minibar, or room service. It seemed excessive in that they threatened to charge for empty water bottles that were found in the room, even if the contents had been consumed while walking around elsewhere.
Aug 9, 2015, 4:16 pm
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A step further, I was not permitted - as in, the check-in trog nabbed the bottle right from my bag - to take one of the complimentary bottles of water from the Grand Millennium Sukhumvit (Bangkok) off premises.
For those that are thinking "well it wouldn't have happened if the bottle was hidden," straw man, for sure.
For those that are thinking "well it wouldn't have happened if the bottle was hidden," straw man, for sure.
Aug 10, 2015, 12:08 pm
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A step further, I was not permitted - as in, the check-in trog nabbed the bottle right from my bag - to take one of the complimentary bottles of water from the Grand Millennium Sukhumvit (Bangkok) off premises.
For those that are thinking "well it wouldn't have happened if the bottle was hidden," straw man, for sure.
For those that are thinking "well it wouldn't have happened if the bottle was hidden," straw man, for sure.