Hotel mini-bars are ridiculously expensive: $4 for a KitKat bar, $6 for a bottle of water, and $12 for a small bag of cashews. But – did you know that you can get a bill for the use of your mini-bar even if you don’t take anything out of it? Many big hotel chains now have motion detectors inside their mini bars. If you move something inside the mini-bar, the hotel’s computer will detect that movement, and you could find a ‘restocking charge’ on your bill at checkout. Some hotels will bill you for a ‘restocking charge’ for every day that something was moved in the mini-bar. Hotels justify ‘restocking charges’ by arguing that when the motion detector indicates that something has been moved in the mini-bar, a hotel employee has to go into the room to count the inventory and to make sure that everything is in its proper place. So – if there is a mini-bar in your hotel room, its OK to open the door and look inside, but if you move or even touch anything inside the mini-bar, you could get a bill for that.