Americans tend to like ice in their water and in their drinks. When o was a kid, my family would typically grab a buck full of ice to cool down the tap water we would drink in the evenings.

Hotel ice can be really funky, though, and I think the practice may be falling out of fashion in any case.

Hard pass on putting the ice in drinks. This is true of hotels and any fast food or restaurant: their ice dispensers are absolutely crawling with bacteria. Some probably even have live rats in them. Don’t fuck with ice, they’re all disgusting.