Posted on 10/09/2025 6:26:55 PM PDT by vespa300
A tourist to Las Vegas is now warning others after she was charged more than $200 for using a wall socket at a popular hotel.
Sharina Butler, of the Bahamas, was staying at the Paris Hotel Las Vegas when she received a bill for $224 due to her son unplugging a tray used for mini-bar snacks and drinks.
The policy, which is written on a small card in the front of the tray, says there's a $56 charge for every day the tray remains unplugged.
'You've got to be kidding me,' she told the hotel employee, she recalled in a TikTok video. 'The tray isn't attached to any electricity, the tray isn't attached to anything, it's just a plug.'
She explained that they had unplugged the tray to charge their phone while sitting at the small desk inside the room. Butler also said she didn't read the note on the minibar because she knew she wasn't going to touch any of the overpriced items.
'The writing on the tray is this small,' she said, holding up two fingers close together. 'Why am I reading a tray when I'm not touching it... The only thing it should be saying is that if you move something off the minibar, you will be charged, right? But that wasn't the case.'
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Cities were better when the mob ran them
Does she know if its got a hidden camera in it?
Obviously a fake story, but Las Vegas deserves the bad PR anyway, given all the other crap that they do.
People are gambling less.
BYOG. Bring your own generator. This is old news. LV hotels are charging extra for electricity use. Don’t be surprised if coin-operated TVs come back, too. The place isn’t worth any of this nonsense. The mob knew how to treat customers.
Probably because of the sensors used to track charges for anything that's removed (or in some cases, moved). It's not like they can trust the staff to keep count.
Maybe not fake, but not newsworthy. Fluke, atypical event. They gouge, but not on electricity. But newsworthiness doesn’t seem to be the standard for whether information is put out as news these days
She wasn’t charged for the electricity, she was charged for the drinks or whatever was on the tray.
Yeah, I suspect Sharina is leaving out some pertinent details.
I do wonder however, are there so few wall sockets in the hotel room that you'd have to unplug something to charge your phone?
I haven't been to Vegas in ages but I stay at hotels all the time on travel and both sockets and USB ports are plentiful.
That’s why you get one of those dual sockets, so the tray can remain plugged in.
Go solar!
I was just there. Part of Paris checks in at Horseshoe.
I had no snack tray like that. I had an empty fridge .
It’s probably a weight sensitive tray similar to a fridge.
“Resort Executive Suite” is a great suite if you can get a deal on it but don’t stay facing the sphere. Super noisy due to Flamingo road. There must be some employees from somewhere that drive super charged loud motorcycles
They fixed the bill and I ultimately paid for what I consumed. The fellow at the counter was openly critical of the policy and complained about how much extra work gets created by it.
Some guests will unplug the tray take stuff like a bottle of vodka from the tray and then replace it with a bottle that has been filled with water for example.
Water meters on every room next.
What is the wi-fi fee, I wonder
Except that everything on that tray would likely cost more than $56 each day. So I think they have come up with a magic number as a penalty.
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