Geek Can't Get Hotel Check-In Kiosk to Work At CES
This morning we gave you our Geek's Hotel Guide to CES in Las Vegas where we ran down the hotel tech scene for CES attendees. In it, we mentioned a Luddite Hotel, the Roman Tower of Caesars Palace, because it's high tech bathroom TVs are only considered high tech in the past. Like 1985.
Now we can add another geek faux pas. Harry McCracken (any relation to Phil?) of PC World checked into the Sahara Hotel and Casino for CES and took a gamble on the hotel's check-in kiosk.
Whenever I see one, I try to use it--but I'm only able to leave with key in hand maybe 25 percent of the time. Otherwise, said kiosks are either out of order, or they give me an error message somewhere along the way.
Along with my PC World comrades, I'm in Las Vegas this week to attend the humongous Consumer Electronics Show. We're staying at the Sahara--which, despite being one of the last relics of Old Vegas on the Strip, is the first hotel here I've stayed in with kiosks. I ambled up to one and got most of the way through the check-in process before it choked and told me to see a real person.
Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. Sahara, of all times to have your check-in kiosks break down. Note to other Vegas hotels with cutting edge gadgetry: the geeks are blogging you.
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