Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortages

Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by foepys on Thursday December 22, 2022 @01:47AM (#34090566)

I have stayed at multiple hotels where a machine hands out key cards or numeric access codes when you enter your name and date of birth.

When you leave you just throw the key card into a box or feed it back into the machine.

No smartphone necessary.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by EFreethought on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:45AM (#34091187)

Thanks for the info. I haven't traveled since COVID, so I don't know how things have changed. I bet hotels made a lot of changes due to COVID.

I know this is OT: But I am tired of every business I go to bugging me to use their app for everything. I don't want another app to keep track of, and I do not want to get texts all the time.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by eybbus on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:24AM (#34091434)

Thankfully some companies just send you a QR-code via email to interact with what ever system they are using.

If I remember correctly one of my hotels I used sent me a pin code or such via email and then they had a self service to get a keycard, which used the pin code.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by ghaff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:10AM (#34092866)

I've rarely seen this as well. Mostly at a Yotel in Manhattan.

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