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Using A Key Card to Turn on the Light

May 19, 2006 at 4:55 PM | by | Comments (2)

When we heard about the new environmentally-friendly  Orchard Garden Hotel set to open in San Francisco this summer, we were curious about their lighting situation. In order to conserve energy, guests would have to enter their key card into a slot on the wall to turn on the lights.

Luckily we found an example on Flickr. Apparently, Japanese hotels have already started to do this and this is what those key card/light switches look like.

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Pretty standard in other parts of the world

This is all over the place in Europe. In fact, I can only think of a few in Europe that did NOT have one of these things. I hate them because I always end up leaving my key in the room, rather than in my pocket. I will often make a shim of hotel note paper folded to the same size as a key. The slot doesn't know any better and the key can stay in my pocket. Also, electronics can charge while I am away, though some room safes offer an outlet that stays on even when the power is out in the room. BTW, the Singapore Marriott I am in right now has one of these slots.
mattw on May 20, 2006 at 5:26 AM #Permalink

Yup

These have been all over Europe for a long, long time--I think they are pretty rare Stateside though.
markj on May 20, 2006 at 10:20 PM #Permalink

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