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But despite the fact that her whole brand is a flex, she can still be shocked by the ridiculous price of a room service sandwich. "I just paid 54.00 for a grilled cheese sandwich," she tweeted over the weekend. "Las Vegas." She added a GIF of a morose-looking Oprah Winfrey, just to emphasize how upsetting it was.
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BUT THERE'S MORE: In a follow-up tweet, she said that the unnamed hotel charged her an additional $10.08 for silverware, despite the fact that—as she put it—she could've eaten the sandwich with her hands. "$64.08! We love scammers!" she wrote.Azalea continued the Twitter thread and, yo, it was a journey. She posted a mid-bite selfie and said that she was going to report her credit card as stolen. (In the pic, she has a side of fries, and we're curious whether the fries were included in her $54 room service bill, or if they were, like, an extra $83. Also, that sandwich cost $9 more than the In My Defense sweatshirt she was wearing while she ate it; the shirt retails for $45 in her online store.)
She then listed the ice bucket for sale ("Midcentury modern vessel. A transitional piece with sleek lines & mild wear") and joked that she was stealing the HDMI cords from the TVs in her room. In the final post from this Room Service Series, she shared a super-short clip of her throwing that $10.08 fork and knife in her suitcase and slamming it shut.
Several years ago, the travel wonks at TripAdvisor calculated the most expensive cities for in-room amenities, and Las Vegas was the fifth most-expensive city, on average, for a room service sandwich. A standard club sandwich cost around $16.67 in Vegas, which was less than similar sandwiches in New York City ($24.15), Washington, D.C. ($19), Honolulu ($18.33), and Los Angeles ($17.33). On an international level, TripAdvisor determined that visitors to Helsinki, Finland pay the most for a room service sandwich, forking over an average of $38.16 for a sandwich. (If only Azalea had been so lucky.)
However, several people in Azalea's @'s mentioned that they didn't have $54 in their bank accounts, which remains inherently more relatable than eating $54 Vegas sandwiches, or $16.67 Vegas sandwiches, or any hotel sandwich, period.Sorry you had an in-room rip-off, Iggy. Maybe next time you can specify that you'd like to taste slightly less gold.