Also the last 2 times I stayed in a high end hotel they overcharged me. Guess they figure it goes on the expense account so who cares if the bill is wrong? I don’t recall ever being overcharged in a normal priced hotel.
The bath robe comes wrapped around a hooker. This way the expense account goes through without a catch, and the cops can’t arrest the guest. That is why it’s $135 for the bathrobe with the complimentary hooker.
Ths is a high end hotel at around $400 a night.
There is no tea or coffee making facilities in the room.
There is no iron- if you want jeans ironed you call the valet who will send them for pressing. At a cost.
In their advertisement they said they “provide high speed Internet access”. They do. And charge you $30 a day for the privilege.
I have few qualms about taking anything they put out if I can.
Over the summer I spent three nights at a hotel that shall remain nameless as part of a wedding party. The rate I was quoted when I booked (over the phone, never again) was $200 for Thursday, $350 for Friday and Saturday.
When I got the bill it was $350 for all three nights, and I was told that was the rate associated with the block for the wedding, and no they weren’t going to honor the phone quote.
Then I found out that some of the guests were put up in a much nicer room than mine (or, for that matter, the bride’s) the night of the wedding for $75, because the hotel couldn’t get them a cab and frankly wanted their obnoxious drunk asses out of the lobby without any further fuss.
“Pissed” doesn’t begin to describe it.
Some hotels now add an electronic tag on the pockets of the robe, like you get in department stores. That way you can still wear it but if you try to leave with it an alarm will sound.
And they have few qualms about just adding anything you take to your bill.
As was said, high end hotels cater to business travelers on expense accounts, and people who don’t iron their own clothes anyway, don’t drink DRIP coffee from prepackaged filters, and think $135 is a reasonable amount of money to spend on a bathrobe.
I’m sorry, what? Iron your jeans? Why would you want to do that in the first place? Who irons/presses jeans?!
Well I used to 
Dangerosa, thanks for the tips. I won’t be adding anything to my baggage- I can’t lift enough pens to make it worth my while anyway.
As has been said, business travellers on expense accounts generally don’t worry about such charges. I’ll add another reason for charging high daily rates: it’s an incentive to get people to sign up for the hotel’s loyalty program. In my experience at Fairmont hotels, one of the perks of joining the loyalty program is that members get free internet access.
Last time I was a motel the free eggs and biscuits all looked like Africa or Antarctica. When I asked about it the surly employee said “Well duh, they’re continental breakfasts.”
Unless the hotel specifies that something is yours to keep (I’ve had this happen with cloth slippers as well as with the little toiletries), I assume it’s like the linen: you’re not supposed to take it home.
I had a hotel try to bill me for drinks because their sensor said I’d opened the minifridge. I refused to move until they provided an itemized bill stating what exact items had I consumed, since all I’d done was open the minifridge to see what was there: last I checked, charging people for looking at storefronts was frowned upon 
They removed the stupid charge once they saw the line start to build up.
The last hotel I stayed in was a Westin. The room had a catalog where almost anything you could come across in the hotel was available for sale. This included robes, the scent they pumped into the lobby and bedding including sheets and mattresses.