As I mentioned here the other day, I recently spent a fun weekend at one of those fancy pancy resort hotels in Scottsdale, Arizona.
You know the kind. This place has every amenity a Kardashian girl could ever want including a spa, the obligatory trendy bar, gourmet restaurants, a beautiful swimming pool, and, of course, spacious multi-room suites that are almost as big as my home’s entire second floor. It also boasted a championship golf course, and bike and hiking trails.
The suites also had a very expensive hotel mini-bar that offered lots of overpriced beverages and snacks for sale like a liter of bottled water for $8, a mini-can of Pringles potato chips (with about 20 chips in it) for $5, and 6-ounce packages of cashews for $14.
Oh yeah, this place had it all — including room service. Which brings me to this month’s 5th grade economics test.
Here is a breakfast room service bill from the aforementioned resort:
- Bowl of corn flakes with milk
- Banana (1)
- Wheat toast (2 slices)
- Orange juice (1 large glass)
- Coffee (3 cups)
Now here’s your challenge: tell me how much the final bill came to. Be sure to include any service charges and/or other room service fees you think the hotel might be so inclined to include, if any. Also assume an Arizona state sales tax of 6.6%.
Leave your answer in the comments section — and no cheating! I posted the actual room service total cost here, in my weekly Black Coffee column.
Good luck!
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Thirty-five dollars!!! (love the blog!)
Thank you, Tracee!
$30?
$42, and let’s hope it was deductible.
I hope so too. 😉
28 bucks….
$50.57
$37
$25.45
$22.50
30.50
I’m guessing about $45 and hoping you charged it on your Upromise credit card…..
Nope, but I did charge it on my dividends card!
I came up with a guess of $26.22 including fees around 20% and taxes of 6.6%. Look forward to seeing how much corn flakes run, lol. 🙂
I say $27
$53.30
$56.50
$47
I came up with $38.08.
$38.52
$27.50
$22.22
did you drink all 3 of those cups of coffee?? I would have totally needed the morning off if I drank that much! 🙂
My limit is two cups per day, Kris — but usually only one! (I just get too jittery.)
Ah ha! We have a contrarian in our midst! 🙂
I’m guessing $32. Will you send the winner a bowl of corn flakes?
I should ask people how much breakfast cost at the hotel I stayed in India last week 🙂
Oooh, you should.
Okay, I’ll bite. How much?
50 bucks!
How about $27.50 total – wow, I really hope you enjoyed it!!!
My guess is $25.00
$32.50
$28 but I imagine when you see it itemized it looks painful “One Slice of Dry Toast – $3”
Considering that you stayed at a “fancy pants” resort in Scottsdale, my guess would be $105.00, tip not included.
LOL! Well, I will say it wasn’t THAT fancy pancy, Richard.
I’m way late to the party and haven’t been in a hotel for a very long time. Before seeing the responses I came up with $42.50.
If that is high, I started with $10 for the corn flakes and also added 20% fees to my total before adding $2.50 (rounded estimate) for tax. The coffee I rang up at $3 a pop.
Whew, that is a relief…I was over by not quite $14…at least hotel pricing is not quite as exorbitant as I had feared.
I am going to guess $35 for food and then $7 for the added tip plus fee for room service $7.50 Plus tax..$50 bucks total
“I mean, it’s one banana, Michael. What could it possibly cost, ten dollars?”