On 01/08/2014 07:33, Mike Barnes wrote:
Nightjar "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote:
On 31/07/2014 19:48, Mike Barnes wrote:
Nightjar "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote:
On 31/07/2014 17:39, Mike Barnes wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
Mike Barnes wrote:

If only hotels would have one or more mains sockets with
coloured inserts that are powered when the key card is removed
from the slot by the door.

So leave A.N.Other plastic card in the slot, rather than the
keycard.

But I'd actually like everything else to be turned off.

It is not that difficult to switch things off individually

You obviously haven't been the same hotel rooms as I have. After
figuring out how to get everything *just right* I don't want to have to
undo and redo it all every time I go out.

The latest room I stayed in had a Lutron-branded system where the
ten-button keypads (of which there were at least four) with their tiny
legends (thankfully in English) controlled what must have been a dozen
lights, the heating and ventilation, two pairs of curtains, two window
blinds, lifting the telly up and down, and probably a few more things
besides. I didn't want to go messing with that lot when stumbling back
into the room after a good night out.

That sounds like a very good reason not to use that hotel chain again.

You don't know anywhere near enough to have a valid opinion on that...

Indeed? Exactly how much do I need to know to have an opinion about
whether or not I would want to use an hotel that makes life too complicated?

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Colin Bignell