room service

noun

: service provided to hotel guests in their rooms

also : the hotel department responsible for such service

ordered a meal from room service

Examples of room service in a Sentence

He ordered a meal from room service.

Recent Examples on the Web

As affluent travelers increasingly refuse to leave pets behind, luxury hotels are escalating an amenities arms race that now includes gourmet canine room service, pet concierges, spa treatments, dog butlers and walks to nearby parks. — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026

Twenty-four-hour room service comes courtesy of La Rotisserie, the hotel’s excellent nouveau-Polish restaurant, and the basement fitness center includes a small swimming pool. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026

Lee takes early meetings at a nearby hotel that could be in any country, except that the room service is delivered by robots painted in the livery of butlers and maids. — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

The only item on my daily to-do list was remembering to fill out a room service card for the following morning’s breakfast delivery. — Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for room service

• disservice
• preservice
• interservice
• nervous
• nervus