Where to stay when you leave.
1/07/2008 at 4:52 PM
Tags: CES Hotels, Hotel News, Viva Vegas, Hotel Technology, Check-In Kiosks
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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The Geek's Hotel Guide to CES in Las Vegas
by juliana
1/07/2008 at 12:23 PM
Tags: Geek Hotels, CES Hotels, Viva Vegas, Geek's Guide to CES, Hotel News
CES actually began yesterday with Bill Gates (final?) CES keynote speech but the real show kicks off today.
Tech and gadget blogs across the internet, like Engadget and Gizmodo will be covering the actual tech products and news that come out of CES, and you know the Digg front door will be full of the latest and greatest CES stories, but we've put together a hotel guide that should help detail a snapshot of what these hotels have to offer the tech-guzzling crowds.
If you don't have your hotel by now, and don't want to stay at OJ's Palace, your best bet is to try and convince someone to let you crash in their room, but that begs the question, who to hit up for a sweet slab of floor?
So whether you are searching for a plethora of power outlets, the sweetest in-room HD, the hotel closest to the Mac store, or, god forbid, where you can partake in a late night viewing of Screech's sex tape -- we plot your CES hotel course here.
See our Geek's Guide to CES in Las Vegas
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