[identity profile] rbrav.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] dragoncon_lj_archive
I have a room in the Marriott this year, and three friends are crashing with me. They all asked for room keys. How generous/stingy is the hotel usually with giving additional keys at check-in? I figured I'd ask for three extras, saying one person was staying with me (two beds in the room) and two more were going to leave their costume stuff in my room.

It shouldn't be an issue

Date: 2008-08-25 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrdennings.livejournal.com
usually they will ask you how many room keys you want and now that their room fee is a standard rate they shouldn't even care how many you request, with in reason.

Date: 2008-08-25 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carencey77.livejournal.com
AFAIK, the Marriott doesn't charge any extra for a quad compared to a double, so there shouldn't be any reason that you can't get four keys. You can even go ahead and give the front desk all four names so everyone can trade in a key if theirs dies over the weekend.

Getting more than four takes a bit more creativity. I like the "my roommate will be out for a few hours and forgot to give us the other keys -- can I get a few more?" You can vary the first part, but they don't really need details. :) Saying you locked the key in the room also works if you just need one more -- most times they'll just give you a new one rather than sending up a staff member to open the room for you. But, the person requesting the extra keys needs to be on the room reservation, and under no circumstances should you say that a key was lost or stolen -- they will most likely deactivate all of the old ones.

Date: 2008-08-25 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mushroom104.livejournal.com
If it's a 4 person occupancy room they should give you 4 keys if you ask for them. A quad room is the same rate whether you are one person or 4 people.

Date: 2008-08-25 05:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] greyloch.livejournal.com
You can always pull out the, "Hi, I left my room key up in the room. Can I get another one?" excuse. Just flash ID and you should be good to go.

Just an FYI: all of the electronic keys are super sensitive to magnetic force. Putting the key in your wallet (or near the wallet) with your credit cards will demagnetize it. Putting it next to your cellphone will demagnetize it. Putting it next to your headphones will? You guessed it, demagnetize it.

This sucks but it's happened to me too many times and thought I should pass this along. But you can keep the key(s) as a souvenir as D*C gets special keys printed (per host hotel) as the hotel will just toss them afterwards.

Date: 2008-08-25 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jarissa.livejournal.com
Really jumbled Addenda to the above:

Darling #1 Husband's father worked in the hotel industry for a number of years. The (surprisingly sturdy) electronic key cards his hotel used cost them, by the end, about $15 apiece for manufacture and screenprinting and shipping as individual items instead of in lots, so if a patron failed to turn one in, the hotel would charge that cost to the patron's account. Ask at check-in whether there'd be any charge for keeping an extra room key as a souvenir!

(Sorry for the garbledyness here, I've got an awful high level of blood in my caffeine stream right now.)

Date: 2008-08-25 07:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] feuervogel
The special D*C keys are intended to be souvenirs. They've got a nifty picture and "Dragon*Con [year]" on them, so not very reusable.

Date: 2008-08-26 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizzistardust.livejournal.com
Um, I've never seen these before (and we normally stay at the Marriot). Is this new for this year?

Date: 2008-08-26 08:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] feuervogel
Could just be a Hyatt thing, then. Last year the Hyatt had them, and I was under the impression all the host hotels had them. (Further bolstered by the person posting above.)

Date: 2008-08-26 01:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bannanna.livejournal.com
They plan to lose the Dragon*Con room keys. My fiancee works for they Hyatt, and says that things are a little different than they used to be. They're not terribly sturdy (think public transit cards) and easily duplicated. They print the ones especially for the con because they don't really expect to get them back, and at least at the Hyatt they won't charge you unless it is excessive.

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