High-Tech Room Keys at The Hotel Patou But Shame About The Noise
Following on from our Do Not Disturb gallery yesterday, today we present to you the funky room keys at the Hotel Patou, Amsterdam, 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 (let’s face it, you’re in Amsterdam, and losing your key will be a pretty sure thing), and they don’t deactivate if you stick them next to your phone, as cards can do.
Plus, of course, it’s pretty cool just waving this at the panel on the door here, and the door just opening. In fact, in your Amsterdam fug, you’ll probably think it’s magic.
Unfortunately, pretty as the rooms are, we wouldn’t stay here again. The windows aren’t double glazed and the walls between the rooms appear to be made of tissue paper, so we had a struggle to get to sleep. A colleague who also spent a sleepless night there mentioned this to the hotel – their response was that it was an “old building”.
Hmm. For €135, as the rooms cost here, even if we’re going to fall into a stoned coma when we hit the sack, we’d prefer not to share it with the rest of the building.
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