Hotel Room Idea

[Juice Box]

so, on my European trip, i noticed a cool thing in all the hotel rooms. When you enter the room, there is a slot for your plastic keycard to the left. Once you put the card in, the power for the room turns on.... a way to save electricity. I thought the idea was genius, and could help hotels save tons of money on electricity. Anyone else seen this?

basically its so when you arent in the room, no power is being used

 

[dug777]

everywhere.

tho' i haven't spent much time in yankland...🙁

 

[yllus]

What if I want to leave something running while I'm away from my room? Lousy Euro pennypinchers.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: dug777
everywhere.

tho' i haven't spent much time in yankland...🙁

yeah, I have never seen that in the states..... I dont think people here would understand it!

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: yllus
What if I want to leave something running while I'm away from my room? Lousy Euro pennypinchers.

like the whole fvucking world does this...

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

What if it's a 2 bedroom room? Each person gets a keycard?

Well, unless you're trying to be cheap and fitting more than one person in a one person room.

 

[Albis]

i like to keep my laptop charged when i head out of my hotel room for dinner. it would be very annoying situation if that occured to me

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: yllus
What if I want to leave something running while I'm away from my room? Lousy Euro pennypinchers.

like the whole fvucking world does this...

Obviously untrue.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: ArmchairAthlete
What if it's a 2 bedroom room? Each person gets a keycard?

Well, unless you're trying to be cheap and fitting more than one person in a one person room.

you never get more than one key anyway...anywhere i've stayed.

from UK to Oz and all over the pacific and asia.

 

[Baked]

conserve resources? Muahhaha, NEVER!

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: ArmchairAthlete
What if it's a 2 bedroom room? Each person gets a keycard?

Well, unless you're trying to be cheap and fitting more than one person in a one person room.

you never get more than one key anyway...anywhere i've stayed.

from UK to Oz and all over the pacific and asia.

yeah, we always only got one

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: Albis
i like to keep my laptop charged when i head out of my hotel room for dinner. it would be very annoying situation if that occured to me

All the ones I've seen the outlets still work, it's just that the lights, ac, and whatever is hardwired into the room (like the tv) won't.

They have them in Japan too.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: kami333

Originally posted by: Albis
i like to keep my laptop charged when i head out of my hotel room for dinner. it would be very annoying situation if that occured to me

All the ones I've seen the outlets still work, it's just that the lights, ac, and whatever is hardwired into the room (like the tv) won't.

They have them in Japan too.

yeah, that probably was it, I didnt have anything with Euro sockets so I dont know if that was the case or not

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: yllus
What if I want to leave something running while I'm away from my room? Lousy Euro pennypinchers.

like the whole fvucking world does this...

 

[JeffCos]

Originally posted by: kami333

Originally posted by: Albis
i like to keep my laptop charged when i head out of my hotel room for dinner. it would be very annoying situation if that occured to me

All the ones I've seen the outlets still work, it's just that the lights, ac, and whatever is hardwired into the room (like the tv) won't.

They have them in Japan too.

"let's turn the A/C off when they leave the room so when they come back it's hotter than sweaty ball$ack" That's a fvcking fabulous idea!!

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: JeffCos

Originally posted by: kami333

Originally posted by: Albis
i like to keep my laptop charged when i head out of my hotel room for dinner. it would be very annoying situation if that occured to me

All the ones I've seen the outlets still work, it's just that the lights, ac, and whatever is hardwired into the room (like the tv) won't.

They have them in Japan too.

"let's turn the A/C off when they leave the room so when they come back it's hotter than sweaty ball$ack" That's a fvcking fabulous idea!!

it's called insulation...

and it seems to work fine in Hong Kong, Sydney, Perth, KL, Manila etc...

 

[Mrvile]

I've never seen this in the states or in Canada, China, other countries I've been to.

 

[jjones]

I've seen those in many hotels, and you can use any card in the slot, not just the room's keycard.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
I've never seen this in the states or in Canada, China, other countries I've been to.

i doubt you then...


seriously, EVERY modern hotel in asia/pacific has this, even in backwards Perth...

 

[tk149]

I've seen this in China.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: dug777
everywhere.

tho' i haven't spent much time in yankland...🙁

yeah, I have never seen that in the states..... I dont think people here would understand it!

I've never seen it in europe either....... maybe because I seldom live in hotels 😛

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

it would make more sense to just have a button that you could turn off and on

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
it would make more sense to just have a button that you could turn off and on

no.

cos' then you would just leave it on.

 

[elanarchist]

this is extremely common outside of the US

 

[dug777]

OOps 😱