HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Key Cards

HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Key Cards http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T00:33:07Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Key%20Cards Amsterdam: High-Tech Room Keys at The Hotel Patou But Shame About The Noise http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/10/952/58039 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/patou2.jpg" class="top"> Following on from our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/4/211341/962/hotels/The_Best_of_The_Do_Not_Disturb_Signs">Do Not Disturb gallery</a> yesterday, today we present to you the funky room keys at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Patou/local/1598">Hotel Patou</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/amsterdam%20hotels">Amsterdam</a>, where we stayed this summer. The Patou is a trendy little hotel on designer haven Hooftstraat, and as befits such a stylish gaffe, it eschews actual keys (too retro) and cards (too common) for these ingenious electronic key fobs. Ingenious? Well yes. Because they are exceptionally light, hence easy to hoof around, have a nice leash to make losing them tricky (lets face it, youre in Amsterdam, and losing your key will be a pretty sure thing), and they dont deactivate if you stick them next to your phone, as cards juliab 2009-11-10T09:44:25-05:00 Bangkok: Bangkok's Chaophya Park Hotel Has The Best Multi-Use Key Cards Ever http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/10/1/142842/178 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/ChaophyaPark.jpg" class="top"> Security issues aside for the moment, <a href="">Chaophya Park Hotel</a> in Bangkok, Thailand has what are possibly the best hotel room key cards ever: they also function as one-day subway passes. It's the first hotel in Bangkok to offer the amenity of hotel-keys-as-subway-passes since it lies along the MRT route of public transportation. But it won't be the last; the MRT is looking to partner up with further hotels in Bangkok and make this a regular perk. Still, the Chaophya Park might look like your typical business hotel in the picture above, but judging from this new feature and the fact that they've got iPod docking stations in the rooms, have greening initiatives, and are the first JetSetCD 2009-10-01T16:21:55-05:00 Holiday Inn Builds a Hotel Made Entirely Out of Hotel Key Cards http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/16/115645/068 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Bryan_Berg___Holiday_Inn_2.JPG" class="top"> Ever wondered what to do with all those hotel key cards youve accumulated? Maybe youve thought about building your own hotel out of the them. No? Well, that's okay, because <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Holiday%20Inn">Holiday Inn</a> had that bright idea, and will be unveiling the Key Card Hotelyes, a hotel made out of many, many key cards (more than even we have)tomorrow in New York. The elaborate stunt is part of the chains Key to Change promotion, which gives guests the chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to a relaunched Holiday Inn of their choice, anywhere in the world. Thats right: this is not your daddy's Holiday Inn. Spending $1 billion on the relaunch roll-out, IHG expects that 1,200 of MsRebecca 2009-09-16T12:37:53-05:00 Newark: Up Next in Room Key Technology: Proximity-Based Keycards? http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/19/93739/7853 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Hotel_Key_Card.jpg" class="top"> Most of our talk about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Key%20Cards">hotel key cards</a> lately has concerned whether they're <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/18/174531/358/hotels/Just_Because_Your_Keycard_is_Recyclable_Doesn_t_Mean_It_Won_t_Work">recyclable or not</a>, but the whole "ease of use" factor is a pretty important to us, too. They can be fiddly things when you have to insert them a particular way or swipe them at just the right speed, and we've been frustrated by them more than once.Thankfully, over at the X Room at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Courtyard+Newark+Univ+Delaware/ian/224870">Courtyard Newark University of Delaware</a>, the prototype room where they try out lots of new gadgets on real guests, they are looking carefully at proximity-based keycards. With these, we won't need to worry about inserting them in the right direction or even finding them in our amandak 2009-06-19T11:56:25-05:00 39.6886880 -75.759179 Chicago: Are The James Chicago's Eco-Friendly Keycards User-Friendly? http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/12/163630/123 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/jameskeycard1.jpg" class="top"> We already know Chicago's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+James/ian/131004">James Hotel</a> is well ahead of the pack when it comes to sustainable, eco-friendly amenity madness (see the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/3/112734/3451/hotels/The_Donut_Esque_Green_Soap_at_The_James_is_Kinda_Genius">donut-esque soap </a>which brought us great glee last week), but PSFK who brought the green soap to our attention also noted another environmentally-conscious feature from their <a href="http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/eco-friendly-hotel-key-cards.html">recent visit</a>: 100% recyclable keycards. But as we learned from the great <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Wooden%20Key%20Cards">Denver Wooden Keycard Disaster of 2008</a>, sometimes these things can be tricky and not-so-user-friendly. Says <a href="http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/eco-friendly-hotel-key-cards.html">PSFK</a>: <blockquote>The James card feels like a thick business card and has a matte finish on the front with a glossy varnish protecting the magnetic strip on the back.</blockquote> So what we want to know Jenna 2009-06-12T16:38:43-05:00 41.8932659 -87.626196 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/