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Joseph_Annechino · January 14, 2020, 5:23pm

Even more egregious, in my opinion, is that Caesars Palace doesn't provide a coffee pot in the room like every other hotel at every price level in the country. If you want a coffee pot, it will cost you $40.00. So, if you need your morning coffee upon awaking, you have a choice. You can call room service, wait for an ridiculously long period and get ripped off in the process by an excessive room service charge or pay for the coffee pot.

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From: jw776655 <jw776655@yahoo.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:59:49 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] More cheapshots from HET/Caesar's.

Caesar's is now charging an automatic 18% gratuity charge for room
service in addition to a $5 service charge.

My gf thinks the service charge used to be less - $3 or so.

She also said the room service menu prices have gone up one or a few
dollars per item.

The first time we had room service, she toked the guy $5, as she
hadn't noticed that the gratuity is now added to the bill.

We had always voluntarily toked the delivery person.
But here's the disturbing part -

At checkout, they now add the $5 service charge with the gratuity as
one total. And the comp dollars cannot be used to pay any of this.

Formerly, there was NOT a gratuity added to the bill.
And the service charge was included in the overall bill and could be
paid for with comp dollars.

So now one orders a sandwich which costs $13 plus $5 service charge
plus $2.34 gratuity plus $1.01 tax for a total of $21.35.

At checkout, one can use comp dollars to pay for $14.01 of that bill
(food and tax).
But one has to pay out of pocket (cash, credit card) $7.34, whereas
previously the only out of pocket would've only been whatever one
chose to toke the server voluntarily.

Why not include the service charge with the food charge and allow comp
dollars to pay for it?
Who knows.

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mikeymic · January 14, 2020, 6:53pm

From: jw776655 <jw776655@...>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:59:49 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] More cheapshots from HET/Caesar's.

Why not include the service charge with the food charge and allow

comp

dollars to pay for it?
Who knows.

Seems to me that MGM/Mirage properties pick up those charges. And if
your stay at the Mirage includes, say, $100 in Mirage Rewards in your
offer you can use that allowance for almost anything in the hotel
including tips. Comes in very handy if they are picking up your food
and beverage anyway.

My last Harrahs LV room did not have a coffee pot, so they may be
disappearing in other properties besides Caesars. With Diamond
Lounges no longer open in the morning management probably calculated
that room service revenues will increase. So, you're stuck with that
blasted room service charge or are waiting your 15 minutes in line at
Starbucks like everyone else.

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jw776655 · January 14, 2020, 6:53pm

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Annechino <floridagambler@...>
wrote:

Even more egregious, in my opinion, is that Caesars

Palace doesn't provide a coffee pot in the room like every other
hotel at every price level in the country. If you want a coffee
pot, it will cost you $40.00. So, if you need your morning coffee
upon awaking, you have a choice. You can call room service, wait
for an ridiculously long period and get ripped off in the process by
an excessive room service charge or pay for the coffee pot.

That is egregious on their part. Every hotel and motel above a Motel
6 - and many below a Motel 6 - have a coffeepot -and coffee - in the
room.
And even Motel 6's have free coffee in the lobby in the morning.

Yet the rooms - including mini suites - at Caesar's and at least
some of the other HET properties don't provide a coffee setup.

The room service charge of $5 is ridiculous also. The basic room
service food items already have their prices hiked up. So the fact
that it is "room service" is already built into the price of the
food. A minimum wage employee delivers the food, and the customer
(of course) pays his salary with an 18% Gratuity charge.

So why charge an extra 5 bucks? As someone noted in an anecdote in
this thread "Because they can". Certainly a ripoff.

A casino giant nickel and dimeing their customers.

The Diamond Lounge at Caesar's keeps getting worse.
There are a number of gloppy spreads/dips available, but good luck
figuring out what the ingredients are, or what the item is called.
I guess this is where the real gambling is done at Caesar's these
days.
Any buffet with so many difficult to identify items would have
labels.

I guess to make up for the dwindling amount of customers using the
lounge, Caesar's D Lounge is now hiding the coffee and tea urns, so
that one has to now get if from a server, and the previously free
cup of coffee is now a "free" $1 cup of coffee (assuming one tokes).

What a dump they've rapidly turned Caesar's into.

Money_Works · January 14, 2020, 6:53pm

I take a small electric kettle with me and heat the water and use those Folger singles. Works for me.

Joseph Annechino <floridagambler@yahoo.com> wrote: Even more egregious, in my opinion, is that Caesars Palace doesn't provide a coffee pot in the room like every other hotel at every price level in the country. If you want a coffee pot, it will cost you $40.00. So, if you need your morning coffee upon awaking, you have a choice. You can call room service, wait for an ridiculously long period and get ripped off in the process by an excessive room service charge or pay for the coffee pot.