What's the boldest thing you ate off of a room service cart in the hall?
Feb 22, 2017, 6:55 pm
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Mini tabasco bottles are great but it never occurred to me to take them from a cart. I feel guilty enough just taking them from the oyster service at the PH Chicago.
Feb 22, 2017, 8:06 pm
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Not at a hotel but a pizza place. A bunch of us placed our order but being a festival weekend they were busy and orders took some time. The table next to us finished and left a half of a pizza. We all looked at each other and well appetizers !!! Another group next to us saw us grab the leftovers and laughed - they were thinking the same thing.
Feb 22, 2017, 8:50 pm
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Not at a hotel but a pizza place. A bunch of us placed our order but being a festival weekend they were busy and orders took some time. The table next to us finished and left a half of a pizza. We all looked at each other and well appetizers !!! Another group next to us saw us grab the leftovers and laughed - they were thinking the same thing.
Feb 22, 2017, 9:57 pm
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I've taken the little vase of flowers for my room. Food? Never. Gross.
Also taken a plate to use for food in my room, after a thorough wash in my sink.
Also taken a plate to use for food in my room, after a thorough wash in my sink.
Last edited by milepig; Feb 23, 2017 at 9:10 am
Feb 23, 2017, 1:54 am
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I acquired a variety of fruits from an abandoned tray outside another room. Packaged it up in an empty basket in my room and took it to my cousin who had invited me for dinner that night at her place.I thought that was pretty neat. The fruit was all top quality stuff.
Feb 23, 2017, 3:16 am
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Feb 23, 2017, 8:28 am
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I have to admit to late night teenage drunken/altered foraging in several Holiday Inns in FL. It was a thing. I am always amazed that they would even rent rooms to 4 16 year old kids. But we did it all the time. The 70's were amazing.
Feb 23, 2017, 11:07 am
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Slightly off topic, I realize...A group of friends and I did that at the Moulin Rouge, many years ago (I know, such tourists). After the show, as we were waiting for the place to clear out, we noticed a half-full bottle on the table next to us. We had already finished our bottles, so we grabbed that one and finished it off as well. Then we started looking around and grabbed another...and another... I think the wait staff even brought us one or two toward the end.
Last edited by Scott in LA; Feb 23, 2017 at 11:27 am Reason: not specifically a hotel story
Feb 23, 2017, 11:13 am
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A variation on a theme but I wandered into an abandoned conference room in my hotel and helped myself to a few slices of leftover apple strudel. Now that's no different to feasting on leftover food from customer meetings in our office.
And many times I have helped myself to coffee outside hotel conf rooms.
And many times I have helped myself to coffee outside hotel conf rooms.