Story about winning in Vegas by leaving tips for spa products
February 5, 2023 2:31 PM Subscribe
Can you help me find what I think was a podcast story (but maybe someone’s standup?) about how the real way to win in Las Vegas is to leave bigger and bigger tips for housekeeping while requesting more and more complementary bath products?
I think it may have ended with him (I believe a man was speaking) filling up his safe with the bath products. Thanks for the help!
I think it may have ended with him (I believe a man was speaking) filling up his safe with the bath products. Thanks for the help!
Response by poster: Of course it was a metafilter post. For what it’s worth I just got like a dozen body washes and a dozen shampoos for my wife inspired by this. So thanks!
posted by evadery at 2:49 PM on February 5, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by evadery at 2:49 PM on February 5, 2023 [3 favorites]
I’m still waiting on the update for slippers and bathrobe
posted by zenon at 7:06 PM on February 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by zenon at 7:06 PM on February 5, 2023 [5 favorites]
I think about that post all the time
posted by nouvelle-personne at 8:46 PM on February 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by nouvelle-personne at 8:46 PM on February 5, 2023 [1 favorite]
Since reading herrdoktor's advice, I have been torn by a desire to never again have to return to Vegas for the tedium of a conventioneer's business trip - and the lure of doing so just one more time so as to try out precisely the steps he mentions! (And I would love to think that housekeeping staff see this done often enough for it to become know amongst them).
Since 2011, many hotels have fought to boost their environmental credentials by switching from those little individual soaps to some big wall mounted container of the stuff that lasts all week and which would spoil the game. Happily, I think Vegas is one of the last places which would ever embrace anything with the killer traits of being green, logical and practical.
Replacing "soap" for "spa products" sound a bit up market to me, however. You're probably going to need to be staying the Four Seasons for that [so maybe you can do the same thing with wheelbarrows]
posted by rongorongo at 12:06 AM on February 6, 2023
Since 2011, many hotels have fought to boost their environmental credentials by switching from those little individual soaps to some big wall mounted container of the stuff that lasts all week and which would spoil the game. Happily, I think Vegas is one of the last places which would ever embrace anything with the killer traits of being green, logical and practical.
Replacing "soap" for "spa products" sound a bit up market to me, however. You're probably going to need to be staying the Four Seasons for that [so maybe you can do the same thing with wheelbarrows]
posted by rongorongo at 12:06 AM on February 6, 2023
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posted by phunniemee at 2:41 PM on February 5, 2023 [17 favorites]