The WSJ's Andrea Petersen did an interesting piece on the most expensive non-alcoholic minibar items sold in luxury hotels. Bal Harbour, Fla.
The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in Florida offers
Popchips potato chips, salt and pepper flavor, for $9.00 an 8oz. bag.
The San Francisco Mandarin
Oriental offers Fleur de Sel
Caramel popcorn for $9. The
Boston Four Seasons offers a small bag of Roasted Salted Mixed nuts for
$8. But the most expensive item is at the The Peninsula Beverly Hills. It offers
10 chocolates nestled inside a special box shaped like the cap worn by the hotel's pages. It costs $80 dollars a box. The hotels say when you factor in the cost of labor and replacing food that was not eaten and went stale, that they don't make much money on these expensive extras. Take a look:
