marriott room keys
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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)no subject
Date: 2008-08-25 02:35 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-08-25 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-25 05:35 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-08-25 05:48 pm (UTC)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.)
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