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Fill My Fridge Please
Start your extended stay the right way
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A lot of the people who rent rooms at extended stay hotels are businessmen coming to a strange town for a 3-6 month contract. The first thing they find when they get to their room is an empty refridgerator. If these hotels offered a service where you could email them a list of things you want in the fridge when you get there I know I'd be willing to pay the extra charge. It would save me a lot of time hunting for a store that carried the things I like (that's the last thing I want to do when I finally get to the room after an 11 hour drive).
longshot9999, Aug 17 2005


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       Some Marriott property in the Seattle area does this for their extended-stay suites, at no charge.
jbf, Aug 17 2005
   

       Is a Frdige like a digireedoo?
normzone, Aug 18 2005
   

       i'll cross that brdige when i come to it.
benfrost, Aug 18 2005
   

       [normzone] THAT's what they're called! (I could only think of them as the thing that goes "Fwaa vhwaa wha vhaa" And so ends my idea of making an electric didgeridoo as someone already has.)   

       I figured [longshot] just got in from an 11 hour drive and, therefore missed the Frdige.
Zimmy, Aug 18 2005
   

       Many of the sort of hotels that you describe, [longshot], have concierges. Next time you make a reservation for an extended stay, ask the concierge desk if they offer a "provisioning service". I've only had spotty luck finding this service offered in business class hotels (presumably because they want you to use their bar, restaurant, and room service kitchens), but "fridge filling" or "provisioning" is quite common in resort villa rentals, timeshares and vacation destinations, other international housekeeping-type rentals, and upper-end marinas.
jurist, Aug 18 2005
   

       sp. fridge, refrigerator.
[admin: Changed spelling in title Frdige -> Fridge]
st3f, Aug 18 2005
   

       The same reason I never posted an Idea for a giant wind-powered organ [Zimmy], was that I couldn't think of prior art.   

       I wouldn't need this fillerupper service, as I live at a destination, but I'd like it if the frdige at work occasionally had coffee mate.
reensure, Aug 18 2005
   

       So the 'd' in the accepted spelling of the abbrev. 'fridge' is actually a bastard? (Yes, it certainly was in this case.)
Ian Tindale, Aug 18 2005
   

       Wouldn't it be easier to have your own fridge filled with everything you need suspended from a dirigible that would track you using a signal from your key fob? It could lower down the fridge to you on command at any moment.
wagster, Aug 18 2005
   

       [wagster] that would be a separate idea, perhaps titled "Get My Fridge Off Me, Please"
sophocles, Aug 18 2005
   


 
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