Originally Posted by GUWonder

I've been able to get in as much water and food as I'd like into my rooms at this property by making my purchase and entering the hotel through the beach side entrance and then taking the elevator up to my room. Sometimes water bottles and food were in shopping bags other times they were in a backpack or something else. Never got questioned or examined from that side.

At the front entrance, it can be and often is a different story. At the back, all they care -- if they even do -- is that you look like a guest and have a room key.

A little planning goes a long way to running circles around "security".