When some people stay at a hotel, they expect to be treated like royalty.

That was the case in this story when a guest came in and got upset about every little thing, including the fact that he had to show ID in order to complete the check-in process.

Then, when he came to the front desk to get his free water, he threw a fit about having to provide his rewards number to qualify. He even threatened to never stay at this hotel again, which the front desk worker wishes were more than an empty threat.

Read through the full story below and see what you think about this guest’s entitled tantrums.

More Bottled Water Entitlement

It never ends with these entitled people.

Free water is a nice perk at some hotels.

EVERYONE wants their free water bottles like it’s going to cure their sick mother or something.

People get SO bent out of shape over the fact that A) you have to have a rewards number, B) you get two at check-in, and that’s it for your stay. We’re not here to give away free stuff to everyone who stops by the desk every single time they do so.

You always have to show an ID when checking into a hotel.

Tonight, we get a guy in his family, checking in about 20 minutes before the audit runs. OK cool. They’re with some kind of school booster club that’s paying for their room.

Sweet, just need to run a card for incidentals. Ask the guy for his ID and CC, and while he hands over the CC, he wants to argue about showing his ID.

What a weird thing to get upset about.

No idea why he’s choosing this hill to die on, but tell him that if he doesn’t provide CC AND ID, I’m not providing him any keys. He eventually shows it, but is pouting like a baby the entire time. Send him and his family to their room

He comes down shortly after to grab something from his car. Stops by the desk and goes “Hey, ain’t I supposed to be gettin’ some free water? I sure would love to have those!”

This guy makes a huge deal about every little thing.

Fair enough. I pull up the res, and there’s no rewards number on it. So I tell him “Yeah, of course. If you’ve got a rewards number, we’ll get it put on here, and definitely give you some free waters.”

Of course, he wants to complain about this, too. He has a rewards number, but he shouldn’t have to give it, I should just give him free water for simply existing. How he’s a business owner too, and he knows how cheap these waters are, and that I shouldn’t be guarding them so hard.

It would be tempting to just refuse him the water out of spite.

Goes on an actual 10 minute rant until I interrupt him and tell him “My man, all you have to do is provide ANY piece of info that will let me look up your rewards number, and you’d have been on your way with your free waters like, 5 minutes ago.”

So he pouts some more, and calls his wife, who gives her rewards number. Easy peasy. But this guy also decides to go for the lemon squeezy, and passively aggressively says to his wife “We ain’t stayin’ at Schmiltons no mo’. We gon go to Blariott from now on”.

Some people really just want to cause problems.

As he hangs up with her, he goes “I ain’t tryna be rude, but, man, why I gotta do all that for some waters? I’m payin’ XXX to stay tonight!” I don’t reply to him, and just hand him his ever-so-precious waters and wish him a good night.

BUT, it’s like, let’s cut the drama. #1, your little tantrum about showing ID was totally unnecessary, and there was no good reason to do that in the first place.

This guy would be much happier if the guest went to another hotel.

I don’t know who the heck you are (nor do I care), but I do need to make sure you’re the person whose name is on the res. #2, you (or your wife) already has a rewards number, why are you acting like I’m asking you to sacrifice your first-born over a couple bottles of water.

It takes 5 seconds, and you can go to your room and get out of my face. #3, If being asked to provide ID and rewards number to get what you want is your breaking point, then by all means, go to Blariott. Go be THEIR problem.

Guests often think they have more pull than they really do.

But, spoiler, you’re going to run into the same obstacles there, too.

As an aside, I desperately wish that anytime someone said something like this, we FDA could just cancel their rewards membership right then and there, no matter what level they are, and say ‘Cool, per your request, you’re banned from all Schmilton properties now. Go enjoy your time at Blariott!’

If there’s any non-hotel workers lurking here, seriously, you NEED to figure out that when you say you’re never going to come back, that is NOT the threat you think it is. We all get paid the same whether you stay or not. You just make yourself look like a stupid jerk.

His threats are empty.

And #4, your wife is a super shiny rock member. Pretty sure she’s going to continue to stay at Schmiltons anyway, despite your tantrum, and you’re going to just go along with it, cuz you’se a bum. #5,

You didn’t pay $XXX for the room, the school booster club did. So I guess you’re also going to go where the person who is paying for you, tells you to go.

At least he has something to look forward to.

Thankfully, I’ve got a month long vacation coming up in just over a week.

I’m so over people, and I’m really looking forward to being able to reset.

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Even though I don’t work at a hotel, I can recognize why this would be so annoying to deal with. Some guests can be so entitled that it is hard to deal with.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about what happened here.

This is how guests should be.

Here is a guest who doesn’t care about the water.

Some people just can’t take a hint.

He doesn’t deserve free water.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who was fired because of a coworkers lies, only to get the chance for revenge years later.

This would be great.

Entitled people just like to complain about every little thing. It is hard to imagine why they are like this. Do they really think this is going to get them a better experience?

People who are kind to the front desk workers are going to be treated much better.