Originally Posted by IAN-UK

The analysis is bizarre.

To support the first propoal you'd need to cost consumption at inflated retail prices, yet for the second you put forward an argument based on marginal or opportunity cost.


I can just about see a hotel losing money because of mini-bar use on a reward stay, where revenue from IHG can be spectacularly low. It might not cover the cost of re-stocking the fridge after a heroic raid on its contents by an RA. But T&C did not oblige hotels to extend the minibar privilege to reward stays.