Said by someone who’s never had to cool down their
bearbeer with a bad mini fridge or without one at all.I’m leaving the typo because it makes me giggle.
Edit - oh I was giggling about bears so much I forgot. It’s also a service for the local youth Ice Hockey teams. They come to the hotels with these cute little plastic sticks capable of turning a hallway into a
ice based turkey shootimprovised game of hockey with ice pucks.Coolers, wine/champagne, cups with vending machine beverages, water bottles…
Op doesn’t have much of an imagination
A shit load of ice to cool your rum. A shit load of ice to cool your cola. A shit load of ice to go in the glass.
“You’ve got to start selling this for more than a dollar a bag. We lost 4 more men on this expedition.”
“If you can think of a better way to get ice, I’d like to hear it.”
PSA don’t use that ice directly in beverages. I have no published evidence to back this up but I’ve never heard of any kind of rules regarding their cleaning schedule…
It’s like a giant freezer, nothing bad can grow in it on it!
Don’t think about restaurant ice then…
(Hint: same ice machines, and the same lack of oversight)
Source: 10 years working commercial HVAC/R…
If it helps, I worked in restaurants for eight years and at least every other year, someone would forget how thermal shock works and put a hot glass directly into the ice maker, so we’d clean it thoroughly then.
So you know, not oversight or intention, but stupidity leads to sporadic cleaning.
I don’t take ice in restaurants either
I am lucky I generally dislike ice anyway I suppose
Sporadic cleaning, or bits of glass in your drink…
I’ve worked for some garbo places, but all of them shut the ice machine down immediately for super thorough and annoying cleaning. Ice and glass are too hard to tell apart and the dangers of ice in a drink are too high for even the greediest managers I’ve had to want to chance it.
Someone out there might risk it, but it’s a pretty obvious thing to avoid
ice in a drink sure is dangerous. i specifically asked for a glas of water, duh
Worked at a place that had an ice machine. I can attest in 5 years it was never cleaned.
Eh. That’s no way to live life. Can’t be worrying about that kinda stuff. Who ever heard about anything bad happening? With the ice? Sure, if you think too hard about it it might seem gross, but…just don’t think. My happiness grew 100% the year I gave up thinking. I don’t even know how percentages work. That’s how much I don’t think. Ice is fine. Eat the ice, put it in your drinks, whatever. There are very few things left in this late stage capitalist hellacape that we even get as “perks” anymore because we aren’t fucking appreciated, we are just figures now. You used to be able to check your bags on a plane for free, but then 9/11 “hit the industry hard” and to “get back on their feet” (after their billions and billions in bailout money)—-shit…I started thinking again. I vow to never do that again.
My family used to buy summer passes to the local Holiday Inn’s swimming pool.
My cousin and I used to fill our pockets with ice cubes from the machines and then go jump into the pool.
No further questions please.
Too bad, I wanna know how it augmented jumping in the pool! Were you expecting it to in any way? Or was it just ADHD decision making?
It did make jumping in a little more refreshing, but it was just ADHD decision making. We also threw the ice at our other cousins while they weren’t looking.
As i understand it, it’s there as a destination for when you coerce your wife/girlfriend into going out of the room naked.
It’s for drinks. Is that actually confusing? Rather than put an ice maker in every room they just put one on each floor. So if they’re broken or ill-kept, that affects a lot of people.
Yup. Doubly true when someone wants to use the criminally overpriced mini fridge in their room. Maybe people want their $25 shot of whiskey on the rocks.
Or when the mini fridge has that stupidly buggy weight system that charges you a storage fee rendering it effectively useless
So, you basically need to pull an Indiana Jones and replace the liquor with something else of equal weight?
Well I was talking about when you want to use the minifridge as a minifridge
I feel like I’m the only person who goes to a hotel to sleep, not chill a 24 pack of diet Coke and a bottle of champagne to drink (without this hotel ice) after eating a ham sandwich out of my rolling cooler which needs a top off.
Where are you all traveling with your champagne and ham sandwiches?!
That didn’t work so well for Mama Cass
Americans tend to like ice in their water and in their drinks. When o was a kid, my family would typically grab a buck full of ice to cool down the tap water we would drink in the evenings.
Hotel ice can be really funky, though, and I think the practice may be falling out of fashion in any case.
This is it. And it’s because tap water can be really different from locale to locale. If you’re not used to it, it can taste quite bad. And room temperature water from the tap can enhance the flavor. So people put ice in it to cover it up.
He’s also correct in that those ice machines never really get cleaned.
I once left a 5 star review for a hotel purely because the hotel was what I expect from a hotel, but there was someone actively cleaning out the ice machine while we were bringing stuff into the room.
Nothing seemed eslecially clean or cared for while we were there, but I had never seen someone clean one before. Or cleaned the drink dispensers after breakfast is over.
I actually have a UV light I take with me on trips for both rock hunting and for hotels. Some hotels you just learn to avoid.
Hard pass on putting the ice in drinks. This is true of hotels and any fast food or restaurant: their ice dispensers are absolutely crawling with bacteria. Some probably even have live rats in them. Don’t fuck with ice, they’re all disgusting.
Man why you gotta hassle the ice rats man. They just trying to get by, y’know.
Some of us are from the warmer climes and appreciate the healing power of ice. And soon, all of us will be from the warmer climes.
Except Britain and the rest of northwestern Europe. It’s going to be plunged into an ice age by the collapse of the gulf stream.
Your point is correct, but it’s the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, that’s the real problem. The Gulf Stream is just a part of its system.
And I’m still not sure if that’ll be better or worse.
Well if it means that I can finally afford a house then I’m all for it.
Yeah, all the people who lose their houses probably won’t want new ones.
Hahahahaha . . . no. No, no.
It can only be a good thing. Think of all that ice!
Ice … cream? Now I’m really looking forward to it.
Ice bucket. We chill wine bottles.
I was going to say liquor, but yeah. You can use it for soda too if you buy a 12 pack and bring it back to the hotel with you instead of letting the drink machine nickel and dime you.
No put that ice in your drinks. Dirty.
Why would you? They provide a bucket, just put the cans/bottles in that with the ice.
Yep, champagne is our main use case. If the wife and I are staying someplace nice, we love to get a bottle of champagne and some nice cheese at a local store and hang out in the room at least one night.
Most hotels have mini fridges
The last hotel I stayed at (fancy expensive hotel for a company gathering) had a mini fridge stocked with ridiculously expensive items, in such a way that the fridge was unusable for outside items. There was also a note that any items removed from the fridge would automatically be charged to the room. There was one bottle of complimentary water on the counter though.
God there was one where I bumped against the fridge and shifted a bunch of items that all showed up on my bill. I think a lot of the Disney hotels work on that system as well.
an ice bucket chills something waaaaaay faster than a mini fridge or even a mini fridge with a freezer
Don’t call me an ice bucket. You’re an ice bucket.
Is that a challenge?
Has nobody topped off a cooler on a trip? Ice is useful for more than just drinking.
Isn’t the cooler also for drinking?
Mmmm cooler water is the best. ‘Specially with dirty hands, bugs, rat pee from the outside of the cans, and all sorts of other good stuff.
Mmmm bottle label glue
The first thing I do when I get to my hotel room is fill up the ice bucket. Who likes warm drinks?
What hotel is fancy enough to have ice buckets and dispensers but not a fucking fridge?
Fridge takes hours to cool a drink, but put it in an ice bucket and it’ll be cold after you’re done pooping.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a hotel that didn’t have an ice dispenser/bucket, but have been to plenty that don’t have a fridge. Heck, Motel 6 has ice machines and a stupid plastic bucket.
Weird, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ice dispenser. Is this a USA thing?
Very likely… A lot of road trip travel by car, sometimes toting coolers. And Americans like their beverages cold.
Yup. I was super surprised when I heard that in Europe, they don’t give you ice by default, and they give you seltzer unless you ask specifically for something else.
I feel like I’m the only person who goes to a hotel to sleep, not chill a 24 pack of diet Coke and a bottle of champagne to drink (without this hotel ice) after eating a ham sandwich out of my rolling cooler which needs a top off.
Where are you all traveling with your champagne and ham sandwiches?!
In case you have to pull an Inception
Hotel’s need good ice dispensers so that you can fill a bathtub with ice after removing your tinder date’s kidneys.
Is the ice for the kidneys or just like a post-nephrectomy cold plunge?
…yes
Thank you for texting me the word nephrectomy, gonna bring my death threat game to the next level
You can have hemicorporectomy in exchange
You can rec my hemicorp anytime brother 😏
