{"id":4394,"date":"2023-07-17T04:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:07:29","slug":"hotel-mini-bar-prices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id4394-hotel-mini-bar-prices-2.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Make the Most of Fancy Resorts Offering Low-Season Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I recently took my entire family — including the in-laws — to Scottsdale, Arizona for a little summer fun at a very posh desert resort.<\/p>\n

Okay, perhaps I’m exaggerating just a tiny bit. Let’s call it fairly posh.<\/p>\n

Regardless, one thing is certain: the resort is still fancier than a Holiday Inn Express. For example, it has honest-to-goodness living, breathing valets. They even greeted us warmly as we pulled up to the lobby — despite the fact we drove up in an old beat-up minivan<\/a> that ended up looking more like a clown car after we opened the doors and everyone managed to finally stagger out.<\/p>\n

Did I mention the resort also has many amenities? Uh huh. Spacious multi-room suites, a spa, a golf course, a nice swimming pool, bike riding, hiking trails and, of course, the obligatory bar with a couple of fancy-pansy restaurants to boot.<\/p>\n

I know what you’re thinking: Okay, Len, so who recently died and left you a small fortune?<\/em> Well, the answer is nobody.<\/p>\n

The fact is, because the average summertime temperature in Scottsdale<\/a> is only a few degrees cooler than the surface of the sun, it’s not very hard to find resorts there offering accommodations between June and September for a song.<\/p>\n

My family ended up getting several spacious guest rooms for $300 per night. Yes; the very same ones that normally go for $1600 or more during the winter high season. Needless to say, it’s an incredible low season deal for those willing to brave the desert heat.<\/p>\n

But while the resorts giveth in the form of low season deals, they also taketh away.<\/p>\n

For instance, consider one of the great mysteries of life<\/a>: the in-room hotel mini-bar. Ours included a well-stocked goodie basket full of snacks, bottled water<\/a>, and even a $25 sleeve of three golf balls. I assume that is for duffers who want to stock their bag before hitting the course. But while the resort was practically giving their gorgeous suites away, their mini-bar prices were so far out of touch with reality that they bordered on price gouging.<\/p>\n

I realize that this is no big revelation, folks, but still … check out these goodie basket prices:<\/p>\n