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…
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.
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…
Worked at a place that had an ice machine. I can attest in 5 years it was never cleaned.
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
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.
Most hotels have mini fridges
an ice bucket chills something waaaaaay faster than a mini fridge or even a mini fridge with a freezer
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.
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.
Don’t call me an ice bucket. You’re an ice bucket.
Is that a challenge?
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 teaching 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 😏
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.
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
And some of those have weight sensors to tell if you took something out.
Champagne
As a kid I thought this was just a weird hotel thing. Got the backstory eventually.
TL;DR: ice became commonplace around the time motel chains spread across the US.
Ice was once an exotic import only nice hotels could offer. Its perceived luxury remained decades after refrigeration allowed manufacture. Hotels could still charge for it, so they did, but in the ‘50s and ‘60s ice went from cheap to essentially free.
Concurrently, roadside motor-hotel (motel) chains spread across the US. Among these, “Holiday Inn” was the first to offer ice as a complementary amenity. Competitors followed suit. National roll-out at every motel franchise happened quickly. Soon nearly every hotel offered self-serve ice as a standard amenity.
Hence our icy embarrassment of riches.
Thank you for this comment.
Nice history. Ice is awesome, what kind of psycopath’s want warm drinks? Even if ice hadn’t been some exotic luxury in the past, I would still demand ice.
[almost] Nobody wants warm drinks. Many of us happily tolerate warm drinks.
FUCK I missed your first word, it already pre-aknowledged I’m a weirdo
Everyone is a weirdo in their own way.
Me, i always order warm tap water at restaurants
“You’ve got to start selling this for more than a dollar a bag. We lost 4 more men on this expedition.”
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“If you can think of a better way to get ice, I’d like to hear it.”
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
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.
xD Fair enough! Its nifty that it had a noticable impact on jumping in the water though!
Lots of joke replies but the real answer is because people travel with yeti coolers and sometimes it won’t all fit in the fridge.
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Nah, it’s just what they transport your mom around in.
An Igloo Cooler for young people
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Be even cooler if they added some flames on it or smth
Ya just like a basic cooler
An insulated box, often with wheels.
You know, I’m proud of you for not saying “a yeti cooler for old people”.
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What if they’re just coolers?
Ah no, all the users of generic coolers have died to the Yeti death squads.
May they rest in piece.
Hail Yeti forever, long may she reign.
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.I used the ice machine at the hotel to chill the drink I bought at the store. I have used the a bunch of times actually. On my wedding night, we stayed at a super fancy hotel and I used the ice machine to fill the bucket for chilling the last bottle of champagne we had
I like to drink alcohol when I travel. It helps me forget that I’m in a hotel. I always grab booze at a nearby shop to bring back to my room.
When carrying medicine on a road trip, I have sat it (in a ziplock bag) in the ice bucket overnight and packed ice in the cooler in the morning for the next day’s drive. There’s no such thing as a usable mini fridge anymore, they’re all mini bars fully packed with pricey items.
You’re staying at much nicer hotels than I am. In my experience they don’t fully stock anything in the room anywhere.
Right? I’ve never seen a hotel fridge with anything in it. Hell I’m actually staying at a hotel right now that’s pretty decent and was reserved by my company. Smallest mini fridge I’ve seen, but it’s empty and could certainly fit some meds.
I guess I go to nicer ones. I haven’t seen alcohol in years (illegal in my state anyway), but most at least have sodas or water bottles. I never know what’s complementary, so I just avoid it.
Get to the cheap or moderate ones. I was in 2 hotels last week, Hilton Garden in Chicago and Econo Lodge in Buffalo. Both had mini fridges for use.
