# Why do hotels have ice machines?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665 "2019-03-07T00:59:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665/121 "2019-03-08T23:51:14Z")

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I have never NOT used an ice machine when staying in a hotel.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665/122 "2019-03-10T23:25:05Z")

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When I travel I bring a cooler, for cheese, lunch meat, fruit, and so on. I always use the ice machine, to refill what melts.

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**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665/123 "2019-03-11T14:57:11Z")

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They’re used often enough that I make sure the room I’m given is no where near the ice machine, to avoid the racket.

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665/124 "2019-03-14T13:20:24Z")

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I’ve never used the ice machine. Hotel rooms come with refrigerators and the bar has drinks.

I once checked out of a hotel 3 hours after I checked in because rowdy people at a wedding kept going into the ice machine which was directly across from my door and making a racket. (The front desk was shocked, but I told them it was impossible to sleep because of the noise).  
On the other hand, I almost always use the iron and board.

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665/125 "2019-03-15T21:52:25Z")

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I use them to get ice to refill the cooler before heading to the next location on our travels. And when I’m at a hotel that doesn’t have a fridge, that ice is my fridge. Fill a bucket. Add warm things. They get cool.

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**Author:** ![fc1114](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@fc1114](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fc1114)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665/126 "2019-03-18T22:05:46Z")

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Can someone explain the lack of hotel ice machines in hotels in Europe?

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hotels-have-ice-machines/830665/127 "2019-03-19T00:46:15Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Some rules are made to be broken. I always say.

That’s the opposite of what they are made for!

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