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Originally Posted by chucky66
Got to agree with WildOne on this one. If a hotel rips every customer off for one or two bottles of water, every day even if it was only 40 baht then they are scamming tourists out of money. The indifferent attitude of tourists to this behaviour will only propogate it. Ive had bottles of water, beer, food, glasses and a tv tried to be charged to me on checkouts at various hotels saying that I had either damaged (glasses and Tv) or used them form the minibar when I hadnt. This happens too frequently and I can only conclude that this arises from tourists just rolling over and accepting it.
However when dealing with Thais in a confrontational situation such as this it alway pays to keep your cool, not raise your voice, smile lots and threaten immediately with TAT/police.
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The water costs 50-75 cents US. Is it worth it to stand in the hotel for 30 minutes trying to get 50-75 cents taken off of your bill? Not for me it isn't. Yeah, if they tried to charge me for a TV that would be a different story.
And maybe the maid drank it. Well, did you leave her a tip at the end of your stay?
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