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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer by starky on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:42AM (#32921533)
I honestly can't think of many times where I actually told my name to the front desk anyway. Usually I have a printout of the reservation or hand them my passport since they need it anyway. It is easier for the front desk to type what they see than try to type what you say or spell out loud, especially in foreign countries that don't necessarily have experience with your name.
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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer by graderjs on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:29AM (#32921808)
I normally just verbally ask staff, "can you just write my room number down and not say the floor out loud." I don't want random people who happen to be around the front desk counter at the same time knowing what room I'm in... come on.
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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:54PM (#32927903)
It's been a long time since I've been at a hotel that spoke my room number aloud. I haven't had to ask.
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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer by graderjs on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:12PM (#32934089)
Oh yeah? It's been a long time since I've stayed in a hotel. Pandemic. They say it. They pretty consistently say the floor too. I guess we travel different places. Better to be safe tho. Once they say it you can't put it back in.

Maybe you don't travel that much?

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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:34PM (#32934220)
Well, no, I don't travel that much, but in the last three years I've probably stayed at 15 different places. I don't recall any of them saying the room number out loud. (Not a statistically valid sample, and all that...)
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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer by graderjs on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:18AM (#32935045)
3 years 15 different different places. That's quite a lot, especially during pandemic. About the same as me.

You may not have been paying attention. I think people don't think about these things because they don't think it's important. It's hard to remember something that you don't care about.

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Re:Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer by AnimalMuppet on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:13PM (#32958173)
No, I notice, because I find it a bit jarring. When I was a kid, they'd tell you your room number. Now they write it down and slide the paper at me, and I notice that.
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