{"id":9701,"date":"2014-11-14T18:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2022-08-25T22:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T03:24:25","slug":"3-tips-avoiding-mini-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/3-tips-avoiding-mini-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Tips to Avoiding the Hotel Mini Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hotel-room.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hotel room\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9703\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hotel-room-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hotel-room-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hotel-room-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hotel-room.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>With the holidays just around the corner, the chances you&#39;ll&nbsp;be traveling tend to go up, so&nbsp;I figured I&#39;d share my top 3 surefire tips to avoiding the mini bar in your hotel room!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith all my experience traveling, both personally and professionally, I&#39;ve nailed this one you could say, and with all those tempting treats in your room 24\/7, you&#39;ll be thanking me soon enough. These small&nbsp;reminders <strong>could make all the difference <\/strong>between saving your waistline <em>and&nbsp;<\/em>your budget this season so you don&#39;t overindulge either way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSo here goes:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t1. When you&#39;re checking in to your room,<strong> if they give&nbsp;you a key to the mini bar,<\/strong> say no thanks! &nbsp;If you have no immediate access to it, even if you&#39;re desperate or it&#39;s late at night, the chances you&#39;ll call the front desk to get one are pretty slim. &nbsp;Therefore, crisis averted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t2. Bring your own stash of goodies. &nbsp;This goes without saying throughout all your travels, especially if you have food allergies, but in particular in hotel rooms. &nbsp;I never go&nbsp;anywhere, from the car to the plane to my room, without my own personal provisions. &nbsp;Not only does it ensure that&nbsp;I have food that I know work for my diet, but it&#39;s much more economical too!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhich brings me to point #3&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t3. Look at the price list! &nbsp;Have you ever checked out how much they charge for a Snickers or M&amp;M&#39;s? &nbsp;Or my favorite snack &#8211; nuts! &nbsp;Try<strong> up to $13.50 or more<\/strong> per container. &nbsp;The price alone is enough to help you get over your mini bar temptation in a jiffy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCreating a more cozy, home-away-from-home environment right in your hotel room complete with foods you&#39;re familiar with, plus safeguarding yourself from unncessary expenses, will make your holiday travels much more pleasant and memorable&nbsp;this year.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AngelaMinelliBiz\">Share your feedback on my Facebook page!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t~ Angela\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Headshot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Headshot\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5164\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Headshot-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the holidays just around the corner, the chances you&#39;ll&nbsp;be traveling tend to go up, so&nbsp;I figured I&#39;d share my top 3 surefire tips to avoiding the mini bar in your hotel room! With all my experience traveling, both personally and professionally, I&#39;ve nailed this one you could say, and with all those tempting treats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[923,1297],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-uncategorized","tag-mini-bar","tag-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14793,"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions\/14793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angelaminelli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}