Post #574505 by woofmutt on Thu, Feb 3, 2011 7:57 AM

*...The whole point of a hotel bar is to attract their guests, keep them there, and sell them highly profitable alcoholic beverages until they stumble back to their rooms. The Tiki Bar actually works perfectly as a hotel concept. Dark, cozy, and exotic...
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A Tiki bar, or any windowless and quiet bar, is ideal for that sort of guest visit. But I haven't come across such a bar in a hotel since I started going to bars (mid 90s). The hotel bars (non destination hotels) I see don't exist as a place for drinkers to gather but as a place to accommodate those who would like to have a drink while waiting for someone or having a brief meeting. The "eat it and beat it" idea behind fast food interiors is expressed in the hotel bar as "meet here then leave." And that's only when the hotel bar is open. I've seen many business focused hotels that have bars which only open on weekends or for special events. It seems there might not be a lot of money to be made by a bar in a standard hotel.