Kevin McCallister’s Home Alone 2 room service bill would cost a fortune nowadays thanks to inflation—but exactly how much would you have to fork out to eat like the beloved movie character for a day?
Home Alone, one of the world’s most-viewed holiday movies starring Macaulay Culkin, received its well-regarded sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in 1992.
Much like the first film, Home Alone 2’s plot sees Kevin being separated from his family during their festive jaunt to Miami.
Instead of flying to the Sunshine State with the rest of the McCallister clan, the 10-year-old heads to New York City, where he tricks staff at the Plaza Hotel into giving him a room.
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During his single night stay, Kevin wracks up a hefty room service bill, which is delivered to Buzz McCallister (played by Devin Ratray) by bellman Cedric (Rob Schneider) at the end of the Christmas flick.
Kevin and Buzz’s father Peter McCallister (John Heard) soon learns he owes the hotel a stunning $967.43 and can be heard screaming angrily before the former speeds off.
What did Kevin McCallister order on room service during Home Alone 2?
Kevin ordered a whopping $728 worth of food during his stay at the Plaza Hotel.
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His sweet selection included: two chocolate cakes, six custard flans, a pastry cart, eight strawberry tarts and 36 chocolate covered strawberries.
The itemised bill also included six helpings of chocolate mousse, each topped with M&Ms, chocolate sprinkles, cherries, nuts, marshmallows, caramel syrup, chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, whipped cream and bananas.
The mousses were were accompanied by sides of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream—perfect for those with a sweet tooth, right?
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How much did the room service bill come to all together?
As mentioned, he Plaza Hotel receipt outlined that Kevin’s insane dessert selection came to a grand total of $728.
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After tax and gratuity ($239.43) was added, the astronomical bill that Buzz was handed sat at at a whopping $967.43.
How much would the bill be worth now?
32 years later, and people are wondering how much the McCallister family would be forced to fork out for Kevin’s bill in modern times.
Last year, experts at NoDespoitDaily utilized the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ inflation calculator to compare the cost of the room service in both December 1992 and December 2023.
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According to them, Kevin’s delightful binge came in at $2,184.42 last year.
UNILAD has used the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ inflation calculator to find the food bill would come to around $2,150.91 in 2024.
That’s an astonishing 75.9 percent price hike in just over three decades!
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What do fans of Home Alone 2 have to say about the final scene of the Christmas movie?
The Home Alone 2 bill has recently cropped up on social media, causing film fans to have their say.
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“A 10 year old unsupervised child in the Big Apple? What choice did he have?,” typed one user of X, formerly known as Twitter.
Another remarked that the $967.43 receipt seemed ‘reasonable for the amount of food that he got’.
“Well keep track of your kids and money next time dad,” savagely replied a third fan.
Someone else added: “While Mr McCallister has the right to be livid about that but he brought on himself for his irresponsibility with not watching Kevin at the airport and leaving his stuff with him.”
Topics: Film and TV, Macaulay Culkin, Christmas, Food and Drink, Money
Ella Scott