Never have I heard of this policy, it is not posted and not anywhere on the website - no minibar to compete with, just the casino bar, and why not wait until we were at the counter to quietly say something? I was so upset I just wanted to get the check in done while my husband went back to the car that I didn't look carefully at the rate. Just a couple weeks earlier we had checked in to the hotel with a box of beer, no comment. We were completely embarrassed to be greeted halfway across the lobby from the check in desk 'no external alcohol allowed, you will have to take that back to your car, hotel policy' referring to a box of beer we brought for personal consumption in the room.