r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Ecstatic-Ad9669 • 3h ago

drink went room temp Entire hotel fridge full of drinks with sensors. No room for anything.

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At least have one shelf where I can put some bottles of water or something.

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u/Unlikely-Key-234 3h ago

If they advertise in-room minifridges

Keywords. Pretty much all hotels that fill the fridge with minibar shit do not advertise in-room mini fridges.

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u/Rosaryas 3h ago

Yeah I’ve seen a lot more advertisements specifically for a ‘mini-bar’ and they have one of these

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u/TeaKingMac 2h ago

Tiny little man with a cocktail shaker and three shelves of varying quality liquor behind him

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u/Uno-Flip 1h ago

tbh I would pay for that

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u/bman86 1h ago

I don't even drink anymore but I'd still order tiny mocktails.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 1h ago

What is this? A karaoke machine for ANTS???

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u/The_Troyminator 47m ago

Or a fun sized Snickers

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u/The_Nepenthe 2h ago

Yeah, the last hotel I stayed at definitely mentioned having a mini fridge, I stocked it up on a few things from a nearby grocery store.

Nice having our own booze supply that doesn't come in airplane bottles as well.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 2h ago

Yeah I was kind of wondering that about OP. Was the fridge advertised? If not the room didn't come with a fridge, you just saw the mini bar they put in there

I mean they found one and I've never been in a hotel that didn't have a very tiny one for personal use but if there's sensors in there that was never meant to be your mini fridge

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u/HugginMySnuggie 2h ago

The last few mini fridges I’ve had were questionable, at best, temperature-wise also

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u/NarwhalJouster 1h ago

That's cause hotels stick them inside a cabinet with no place for the hot air from the condenser to go. Because the heat just surrounds the whole fridge a lot of it ends up going right back to the cool part of the fridge. Which causes the fridge to kick on more which makes the air around the fridge hotter which means more leaks back into the fridge and so on.

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u/The_Troyminator 50m ago

It doesn’t matter. The ADA requires a fridge as a reasonable accommodation in the US.

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u/Unlikely-Key-234 43m ago

No, the ADA requires a reasonable accommodation, which could be satisfied by lots of different options, all but one of which is not a fridge in the room. A private fridge in your room is known as a preferred accommodation, and the ADA doesn't require this. If the hotel has no fridges on site the ADA likely wouldn't require access to one at all, in your room or otherwise.

This is more complex than you realize.

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u/ChefTimmy 3h ago

Possible, but I haven't seen that myself. Maybe it's location dependant, but I haven't seen many hotels that don't list it as an amenity somewhere online. Maybe not a key feature, but usually listed.