<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pdhenry:
BEWARE that some hotels now use a sensor inside the mini-bar fridge that (somehow) detects that you are removing something and charges you IMMEDIATELY for that item. I stayed at the Hilton at the Zurich airport and had a Coke form the minibar. Checked my account via the TV set a few minutes later and had already been charged for the Coke.
However, this fridge had an empty shelf reserved for guests to chill their own drinks...
P D Henry</font>
I stayed at a DoubleTree in Boston that had one of these too, but this one had *no* room for anything in it. Drove me nuts that there was a fridge there but couldn't do anything to keep my own stuff cold.