Outrage as Las Vegas hotel charges guest eye-watering price for a single bottle of water [$27]

[240B]

Outrage as Las Vegas hotel charges guest eye-watering price for a single bottle of water

Daily Mail
By EMMA SALETTA
17 June 2025



A Las Vegas visitor got a shocking surprise after grabbing a bottle of water from their hotel room — only to later discover the $26 price tag.

The unidentified guest was staying at the upscale Aria Resort & Casino when they took the one liter bottle of Fiji from the room’s minibar, not realizing the steep cost until after finishing it.

Making matters worse, they later spotted the same brand of water being sold at the on-site Starbucks for just $7.45. At nearby stores, it was under $3.

The guest’s bill — including room rate, resort fees, taxes, and the infamous water — totaled $258.51 for a single night on June 8, according to a photo published by travel site View from the Wing. 

The Aria, one of over 30 MGM Resorts, includes rates currently starting at $280 a night.

A social media user who goes by Lasvegasblogger posted a photo in April of Aria's minibar menu, showing seven drink options — with the Fiji water clocking in at $24.75. A regular can of Coke was $13.75.

'It's a regular can of Coca-Cola in case you wonder what is deluxe,' the blogger wrote.

'Those prices make me think I’m at a Dodgers or Yankees World Series game,' one commenter joked. '7-Eleven here I come.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14818057/aria-water-bottle-price-guests-las-vegas.html

[berdie]

One rule I lived by when I used to travel....never even open the door to the mini-bar.

We were always those gauche travelers that went to a local store and bought a styrofoam cooler and drinks...and snacks.

[roamer_1]

SMH. Never will understand paying money for bottled water.

[Wingnut]

A fool and their money.... 

[Sighlass]

Some places in Florida the water tastes wonky (to me), I would bring water in a cooler to florida and pay for a bag of ice along the way as needed.

Around here, I just drink water from tap... all the water taste great IMHO... YMMV, but mountain sourced water (with a tiny bit chlorine/fluoride) floats my boat.

[DB]

SMH. Never will understand paying money for bottled water.

I only buy the really good sturdy bottled waters. One that fits in my car's cup holder snuggly.

Then I use the bottle for at least 6 months refilling it with RO water over and over until I either lose it - or it has "expired"...

[corbe]

   Isn't it well known that the crap water FiJi enhances the effects of viagra?

[Wingnut]

   Isn't it well known that the crap water FiJi enhances the effects of viagra?

Stop drinking the bong water corbe.

[mountaineer]

Some places in Florida the water tastes wonky (to me), I would bring water in a cooler to florida and pay for a bag of ice along the way as needed.

Same. We're taking a trip tomorrow, and the cooler will have some Coke and bottled water (though as much as it's supposed to be raining, we could just hang our heads out the windows and drink deeply).

[berdie]

SMH. Never will understand paying money for bottled water.

Unless you are in Mexico...just sayin'.

[Fishrrman]

Never been to Las Vegas.
I've always considered it a corrupt "disneyland" for adults.

I can state with all confidence that at this point in life, I will never get there, either.
Wouldn't even take a free trip if it was offered.
Absolutely nothing there I'd like to see.

[mountaineer]

Reminds me of a golf tournament we attended a few years ago, where Michelob Ultra was $15 a can. C'mon, man, it's not even beer!

[240B]

Have a PUR System for the water in the kitchen. Still buy purified bottled water by gallons for making booze.
I have never opened a minibar in a hotel. Some of hotels charge for just opening it, even if you don't take anything.
They have some kind of monitoring system connected to it (which is creepy). What else are they monitoring?

[Smokin Joe]

SMH. Never will understand paying money for bottled water.

Try the tap water anywhere back East...You'd stand in line for some reverse osmosis H2O.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I've heard Vegas is a total rip off these days.

[Smokin Joe]

Caveat emptor

[DefiantMassRINO]

It has the word "Deluxe" in the name, so you know it's classy, top-shelf bottled water.

If you don't like paying $27 for a bottle of water ... stay someplace else ... drink tap water ... smuggle bootleg bottled water ... or you could die of thirst.  Your choice.

Las Vegas is in a desert.  Las Vegas is a resort - you're a captured audience member.  Big spenders, whales, hookers, drug dealers, etc., don't fret about paying $27 for a bottle of water.

[libertybele]

Have a PUR System for the water in the kitchen. Still buy purified bottled water by gallons for making booze.
I have never opened a minibar in a hotel. Some of hotels charge for just opening it, even if you don't take anything.
They have some kind of monitoring system connected to it (which is creepy). What else are they monitoring?

...hmm...why not purchase a still for 'distilled water'? 

[libertybele]

Some places in Florida the water tastes wonky (to me), I would bring water in a cooler to florida and pay for a bag of ice along the way as needed.

Around here, I just drink water from tap... all the water taste great IMHO... YMMV, but mountain sourced water (with a tiny bit chlorine/fluoride) floats my boat.

The cost of water here is absolutely ridiculous (lots of corruption going on with City Council  - my opinion) -- they are raising rates continually and you are absolutely correct -- the supposed drinking water in FL does taste 'wonky'. 

I've been drinking bottled spring water for years.  We have a filter on the refrigerator water and that's what hubby drinks.  When I cook, I boil the water first.  Whether or not the kills all the crappola that's in the water, I don't honestly know.  I do know that we get a report from the City every once in awhile to show that our drinking water is supposedly safe.  Nope. I'll pass.

I did try drinking distilled water the other day -- I found that it tasted horrible, so back to Spring water.

[DB]

Reverse Osmosis works pretty well.

[libertybele]

Outrage as Las Vegas hotel charges guest eye-watering price for a single bottle of water

Daily Mail
By EMMA SALETTA
17 June 2025



A Las Vegas visitor got a shocking surprise after grabbing a bottle of water from their hotel room — only to later discover the $26 price tag.

The unidentified guest was staying at the upscale Aria Resort & Casino when they took the one liter bottle of Fiji from the room’s minibar, not realizing the steep cost until after finishing it.

Making matters worse, they later spotted the same brand of water being sold at the on-site Starbucks for just $7.45. At nearby stores, it was under $3.

The guest’s bill — including room rate, resort fees, taxes, and the infamous water — totaled $258.51 for a single night on June 8, according to a photo published by travel site View from the Wing. 

The Aria, one of over 30 MGM Resorts, includes rates currently starting at $280 a night.

A social media user who goes by Lasvegasblogger posted a photo in April of Aria's minibar menu, showing seven drink options — with the Fiji water clocking in at $24.75. A regular can of Coke was $13.75.

'It's a regular can of Coca-Cola in case you wonder what is deluxe,' the blogger wrote.

'Those prices make me think I’m at a Dodgers or Yankees World Series game,' one commenter joked. '7-Eleven here I come.'

(more)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14818057/aria-water-bottle-price-guests-las-vegas.html

Rule #1 -- Don't go to Vegas. 

[roamer_1]

I only buy the really good sturdy bottled waters. One that fits in my car's cup holder snuggly.

Then I use the bottle for at least 6 months refilling it with RO water over and over until I either lose it - or it has "expired"...

I am a fan of Snapple Peach Tea, which I buy in the quart-ish size... I re-use those for water, though they do get ganky after a month or so... They get washed and disinfected with chlorine, but when you start smelling mold in the cap, disinfection won't help much... Just about time to buy new ones.

But I am still rigged for the woods, where I carried a canteen and a bottle, both stainless steel, and able to boil water in the fire.

My main jug now is a Kleen Kanteen stainless steel 20 oz wide mouth bottle. It gets coffee in the morning, and sweet tea in the afternoon. Always. It is forever with me.

So I bring my own spring water with me, if I go anywhere. I am still bag-oriented, and that 20 oz jug is in a sleeve in that bag, anywhere I go. So 90% of the time, I am drinking artesian spring water.

But all my life living here, I can drink right out of the streams, most anywhere , other than lakes and behind beaver dams - Though most lakes too. I am pretty immune to any of the critters living in the water here, and only boil if I am worried about it, which is seldom. Clear, clean water is everywhere, just coming out of the ground.

But it wouldn't matter where I am... If I am carrying in stainless steel, I can boil, which is what I would do, anyway... Stopping to boil is always time for coffee, which is always a good thing. So that is just built in break time, the way I am.

Anyhow... Water is an abundance. I can't say I have never bought bottled water, but it has been so seldom that I can't rightly recall it much. I just won't even see the option.

[DefiantMassRINO]

C'mon, it's Deluxe water imported from Fiji.  It's a premium class of refreshment and hydration.

Go drink Dasani from a vending machine, you poor trash.

[roamer_1]

Try the tap water anywhere back East...You'd stand in line for some reverse osmosis H2O.

Nah... Worst case scenario, a fire and an ad-hoc still. But probably a LifeStraw, which is on me most all the time.... Ways to make clean water are cheap and easy. I ain't gonna buy bottled. Not in the long term.

[roamer_1]

The cost of water here is absolutely ridiculous (lots of corruption going on with City Council  - my opinion) -- they are raising rates continually and you are absolutely correct -- the supposed drinking water in FL does taste 'wonky'. 

I've been drinking bottled spring water for years.  We have a filter on the refrigerator water and that's what hubby drinks.  When I cook, I boil the water first.  Whether or not the kills all the crappola that's in the water, I don't honestly know.  I do know that we get a report from the City every once in awhile to show that our drinking water is supposedly safe.  Nope. I'll pass.

I did try drinking distilled water the other day -- I found that it tasted horrible, so back to Spring water.

I'd probably try a Berkey gravity filter in that scenario. Its, I dunno, maybe 3 gallons of capacity, and the water would feed from the 'dirty' side on top, through ceramic filters to the clean side on the bottom... I have never found water that wasn't passin fare going through a ceramic filter.

[240B]

...hmm...why not purchase a still for 'distilled water'?

Good question. There are two kinds of bottled water. One is labeled 'drinking water' (or spring water) the other is labeled 'distilled water'. They taste significantly different. I don't want sterile distilled water, pure H2O. That is for irons, and utility steamers of various kinds like clothes and carpet steamers.

Drinking water, on the other hand, is purified in various ways (mostly filtered in one way or another) to get rid of contaminants but it is not boiled. It still retains a nice water taste, which is what I want. When making beer, wine, cider, pruno, or various other recipes, the water used makes a big difference.

When making moonshine, the water does not really matter since it is distilled in the process, unless it has oil or some kind of chemical contaminate in it. That is why you see shiners using 'almost' any water they can find that does not have chlorine including swamp water. Chlorine will hinder the yeast, which is what it is intended to do as an antimicrobial.

Check it out for yourself. Try it. Distilled water and drinking water are not the same thing.

[roamer_1]

Drinking water, on the other hand, is purified in various ways (mostly filtered in one way or another) to get rid of contaminants but it is not boiled. It still retains a nice water taste, which is what I want. When making beer, wine, cider, pruno, or various other recipes, the water used makes a big difference.

Well sorta... I would reckon boiling does occur - it is the easiest way to kill pathogens - prior to filtering... Boiling is different from distilling.

[Smokin Joe]

I'd probably try a Berkey gravity filter in that scenario. Its, I dunno, maybe 3 gallons of capacity, and the water would feed from the 'dirty' side on top, through ceramic filters to the clean side on the bottom... I have never found water that wasn't passin fare going through a ceramic filter.

Berkeys are good, but the filter is easily broken...and spendy.

That said, properly cared for, they will do the job.

[Smokin Joe]

Good question. There are two kinds of bottled water. One is labeled 'drinking water' (or spring water) the other is labeled 'distilled water'. They taste significantly different. I don't want sterile distilled water, pure H2O. That is for irons, and utility steamers of various kinds like clothes and carpet steamers.

Drinking water, on the other hand, is purified in various ways (mostly filtered in one way or another) to get rid of contaminants but it is not boiled. It still retains a nice water taste, which is what I want. When making beer, wine, cider, pruno, or various other recipes, the water used makes a big difference.

When making moonshine, the water does not really matter since it is distilled in the process, unless it has oil or some kind of chemical contaminate in it. That is why you see shiners using 'almost' any water they can find that does not have chlorine including swamp water. Chlorine will hinder the yeast, which is what it is intended to do as an antimicrobial.

Check it out for yourself. Try it. Distilled water and drinking water are not the same thing.

To each their own, I reckon. I use distilled water to make coffee. Wherever I go, my favorite coffee tastes the same.
DIfferent spring water tastes different, as does 'tap' water, depending on what has been added to it in treatment and what was there from nature. I'd swear some of the 'springs' were left over from a Model A, but some people like iron rich near surface ground water.

Reverse osmosis water tends to remove a lot of the ions present in the water, and has a fairly consistent flavor depending on the label. Oddly enough Sam's club works for me, and I usually end up taking drinking water or distilled water for coffee when I go out on a job. Two of the 28 pack cases and six gallons of distilled will get me through a week. While the water for washing is considered fairly clean, it is not considered potable, and, in fact, the taps are labelled "Not potable" all over, so we don't drink it. That is to be expected in plumbing systems which are rigged up and down on at least a monthly basis, and filled with antifreeze half the year to keep them from freezing (and displace the water).

Where I grew up, one of the smartest things my father did was drill a deep artesian well, and that water is about the only tap water I have consistently been able to drink. That aquifer has dropped 60 ft. since that well was drilled in the 50s, from use upstream, but the water is still good. In dry years, shallow aquifers there can get some recharge from brackish water in the rivers, and water quality suffers. Mineral content makes for different flavors, too.

[Polly Ticks]

Kentucky's tap water was the most highly rated tap water in the nation as of a couple of years ago, and they were even able to trademark it as "Pure Tap".  I'm a fan.  Having said that, our tap water comes from the Ohio River ... downstream from East Palestine, OH.  I did buy bottled water for a short while after that.