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Why is room service so expensive?

Geoff Riley

1st April 2015

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Room service and taking items from the mini bar are just about the two more surefire ways of adding hugely to your hotel bill when accounts come to be settled.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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