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Hotel Minibars Hijack Your Hunger Cravings at Ridiculous Prices

Hotels know that when you check-in to your hotel room, the hunger pains that you've acquired during your long travel day are so strong that you will think twice about paying $5 for a candy bar but in the end, you will ultimately give-in because you are starving.

No doubt, it's an evil ploy on the hotel's part which is why The Sunday Times has compiled their List of Shame--hotel minibars that charge outrageous prices for snacks.

Obviously, this investigation was spurred by the ridiculous prices but we have a feeling it was the motion-sensors in the fridge that really this reporter off:

The price isn't even the worst of it. What about the minibars that are booby-trapped? If you so much as lift a product out of them, BANG!! It's on the hotel bill for you to argue over on departure. Electronic tagging is controversial enough on criminals. How do they get away with it on Pringles?

And who's the worst offender? It has to be the Ritz Paris who charges about $12.50 for a canette of coke.

So far, hotels offer up lame excuses for their prices like,"[O]ne must expect to pay the price for eating a Kit Kat in such palatial surroundings," even though you've already bought a room there.

But we think hotels follow  the old "If you're so rich and you can buy a room here then a $13 coke shouldn't faze you" mentality.

Related Stories:
· The great hotel minibar rip-off [Times Online]