Some have it and some don't. This time my hotel in Manhattan missed the mark with technologies.Sure my room was recently renovated and featured a fancy iHome docking station and flat panel TV (I use Droid by the way). But what good is a TV if there are no batteries in the remote? The docking station was nice, but it didn't work for my phone, the time was off by 3 hours and it was way too bright when all the lights were off. I unplugged it.
I brought the remote to the front desk to get batteries, which they didn't have, and left for the day. Sadly, I had to call them to bring up a new remote when I wanted to watch and realized I still didn't have an operational one. The final tech hick-up was the WiFi. Yes the hotel had WiFi, but was it free? No. $14.95 in room for 24 hours. No big deal, I will just use the free internet in the lobby the clerk told me they had when I called to book the room. Nope. Didn't exist. The front desk was shocked when I asked them about it.
Needless to say I wrote this story from my smart phone with my TV volume too loud while being blinded by my night stand clock.
Some hotel tech issues
Lodging - December 1, 2011 - 9:32am by thines
Some have it and some don't. This time my hotel in Manhattan missed the mark with technologies.Sure my room was recently renovated and featured a fancy iHome docking station and flat panel TV (I use Droid by the way). But what good is a TV if there are no batteries in the remote? The docking station was nice, but it didn't work for my phone, the time was off by 3 hours and it was way too bright when all the lights were off. I unplugged it.
I brought the remote to the front desk to get batteries, which they didn't have, and left for the day. Sadly, I had to call them to bring up a new remote when I wanted to watch and realized I still didn't have an operational one. The final tech hick-up was the WiFi. Yes the hotel had WiFi, but was it free? No. $14.95 in room for 24 hours. No big deal, I will just use the free internet in the lobby the clerk told me they had when I called to book the room. Nope. Didn't exist. The front desk was shocked when I asked them about it.
Needless to say I wrote this story from my smart phone with my TV volume too loud while being blinded by my night stand clock.