Our USA Todays are for guests only

[Mr Hero]

I don't know how non-guests come in today wanting to score a free paper. My reply was always the same. If I gave today's USA Today paper to just anyone, there wouldn't have been any for guests to read.

[MouseToy]

Ohhh... I know what kind of hotel you work for now.... only because it's the same kind as the one I work for...

[smileyeagle1021]

psst.... Mouse Toy... I think every hotel now carries USA Today... there's 4 within a block of us who do (5 if you include us)

[MouseToy]

Really? This is the first hotel I've worked at where being a guest here means you get a 'free' USA today. Good to know.

[smileyeagle1021]

I think whether or not the USA Today is included really depends on the clientelle... the area we're in a lot of the guests are busines travellers... who are willing to pay a little bit more for a hotel with USA Today provided than somewhere that doesn't where they'll then have to find a convenience store to buy one from.

[thehippie777]

Yeah we have em free for guests as well.

Funny little wee story, though. We had a guy, for about a month or so, come in like he was a guest, get coffee, and grab a local paper and just sorta walk out and leave via a car.

Well, come to discover, after speaking with the other night lady at the time, this guy was NOT a guest. Matter of fact, she suspected it and followed him outside to where he got into his local plates car. The next time she saw him, she immediately confronted him. No he wasn't a guest. She told him, obviously, that the hotel was for guests only & he was trespassing. Didn't see him after that.

It takes a lot of guts to act like you own a friggn place by pulling crap like that. And my maintenance guys wonder why I sometimes ask people if they are guests when they wonder into the hotel via front doors in the wee hours of the morning.

[Hyndis]

Really? This is the first hotel I've worked at where being a guest here means you get a 'free' USA today. Good to know.

In my experience many hotels around the world (well, at least in the US, Canada, and most of Europe) stock a few types of newspapers, usually a local paper and an international paper.

[tendomentis]

Ironically, when I travel and the hotel asks me if I'd like a paper in the morning, I ask if they have anything besides the USA Today (Washington Post, NY Times, WSJ, etc).

I'm not exactly sure why, but I just don't like the USA Today. The writing style feels as if it were intended for a readership other than adults.

A little OT, I know, but it surprised me that anyone would just wander into a hotel and try to bum a USA Today.

[smileyeagle1021]

Ironically, when I travel and the hotel asks me if I'd like a paper in the morning, I ask if they have anything besides the USA Today (Washington Post, NY Times, WSJ, etc).
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Well, you could stay out my hotel... we also have SL Tribs... they don't have the best of national and international coverage... but it's not USA Today

[Peppergirl]

Jesus! How much are the damned things?

And I used to think it was bad back when I audited travel expense reports and these multi-millionaire higher-ups would expense .25 cents for their paper for every day of their trip.

But actually going to the trouble of making a special stop to scam a hotel out of a, what, 75 cent paper?

[thehippie777]

Jesus! How much are the damned things?

And I used to think it was bad back when I audited travel expense reports and these multi-millionaire higher-ups would expense .25 cents for their paper for every day of their trip.

But actually going to the trouble of making a special stop to scam a hotel out of a, what, 75 cent paper?

People are cheap, what can I say?

[greensinestro]

Isn't this like the ones who pop in for the free continental breakfast and aren't a guest of the hotel?

Also, I remember when McDonald's had the courtesy of providing a free newspaper. Actually, it was more like "loaning" the paper out, except you had the tightwads who would come in only to read the paper, not order any food, and then fight with other patrons that wanted to see the comics. I think this is why many don't do it any more.