Is it time to say goodbye to the hotel mini bar? A recent survey by the travel website TripAdvisor.com found that the hotel mini bar was the least important amenity for U.S. travelers. Only 21 percent ...

Could that $10 mini-bar bag of M&Ms soon be a relic? Amid shrinking travel expense accounts and the availability of snacks elsewhere, the mini-bar is quickly becoming an outdated amenity. But hotels ...

78 B.C.--Hiltonus, an innkeeper weary of being rudely woken in the middle of the night by Roman legionnaires demanding wine and salted nuts, re-creates the concept of the mini-bar by installing in ...

The quintessential “Me Generation” hotel amenity, the mini-bar, may be fading away like disco music, transistor radios and bell-bottom jeans. Upscale resorts today seem lukewarm, at best, about ...

Think fast, Hotshot. When's the last time you bought something from the hotel mini-bar? When did you take an overpriced Coke Zero or a bottle of Smartwater that cost almost as much as a bottle of ...

You’ve just stumbled in from a marathon of meetings, compounded by crushing jetlag. What lies before you at the end of the day? Quite possibly a mediocre hotel room. What now? You turn to your only ...

Nowadays, traveling is not cheap by any stretch, whether you're doing it for business or pleasure. As of July 2025, airline ticket prices were up 0.7% compared to July 2024, according to NerdWallet.

Amanda Kludt is the former editor-in-chief of Eater. This post originally appeared on April 6, 2019, in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the ...

One of the little luxuries of staying in a hotel--the late-night snack from the hotel mini-bar--has proven to be a major point of contention between hotels and their guests, with 25% of travelers ...

Hotel minibars catering for a discerning type of guest are becoming more inventive with luxurious items such as Champagne cocktails and designer clothing found alongside the drinks and snacks. Men's ...