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The rise and rise of cheap hotels has bred a new variant of smart hotel where the door and the room can be controlled by a mobile phone application. With no room service, selectable coloured interior lighting, no fridge, and no door key Mi-Pad in New Zealand may be an indication of what hotels will be like in the future. With a smartphone app to control the front door, lighting, order room service, room temperature, and message other guests the hotel truly offers self service. If this catches on, how many other hotels will switch to automated service to save money on staff wages?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @03:21AM (5 children)
Sure, that would be fine, if it actually works (my success with cheap tablets has not been good). But my guess is that the tablet would walk or be dropped, unless it was locked down to a table.
On the other hand, maybe this could be better than a phone on the side table that is answered by someone that can barely understand English? Lest you think I'm showing my Ugly American side, this is often the case in motels in the USA. I expect to have language problems when traveling to non-English speaking countries like Quebec...(grin).
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday November 18 2018, @05:49AM (4 children)
Well they do speak English on South Island. You just might have a bit of a problem with dialect.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by deimtee on Sunday November 18 2018, @06:24AM (3 children)
The differences are trivial.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:40AM (2 children)
Are what? English, please!
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:57AM
The differences are rudimentary. :^)
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday November 19 2018, @03:23AM
Inconsequential. Diminutive. Inappreciable. Evanescent.
I hope that's commensurably delineated the matter for you.