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What's the Little Metal Thingie in the Bathrooms at Heathrow Airport's Sofitel?

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May 5, 2011 at 9:17 AM | by | Comments (3)

Hmm—what's that metal thing stuck low on the wall just inside the bathroom door of a room at the Sofitel Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport? Well, this is a hotel that caters to weary travelers just off British Airways flights and this is a room designed with the frequent flying business traveler in mind, and what might both of those sorts want after a long day? Ah—a cold beer. Yep, that little metal thingie is a beer opener.

The Sofitel at Heathrow's T5 is one of the area's newer hotels; having opening in 2008 it boasts most of the newish amenity bells and whistles, like plug panels at the desk, flatscreen TVs and nice telephones, and even these thoughtful little extra fixtures.

Typically we're rustling around the minibar stuff or calling down to room service to score a bottle opened, but here's one right out in the open for use and its location in the bathroom means no worries about fizzing over. Love it!

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The Crowne Plaza in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida has these too :)
KerryBoat on May 5, 2011 at 11:27 AM #Permalink

Estetics? Nothing on the wall, all in the minibar

Again, why not fix a bottle opener directly to the minibar? Opening a bottle of beer couldn't be easier. The hotel would keep the guest happy and at the same time not have someone calling room service at 2am requesting for a bottle opener. Morever, let's face it. A bottle opener on the wall of a hotel room? Estetics does count in the end. Having travelled alot, I have encountered hotels which have minibars with an incorporated bottle opener. Check it out; www.pamibar.eu

Let's hope those bottle openers dissapear from the wall and are found where the bottles are :-) !!

PamiBar on July 20, 2011 at 10:22 AM #Permalink

Thanks

The way you just did. I'm really impressed that theres so much about this subject
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Prix des Timbres on November 24, 2011 at 8:59 PM #Permalink

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