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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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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday November 18 2018, @03:48AM (5 children)
And no smartphone was involved. A few days before our visit, we made reservations and provided payment info online, were given a code for the door lock, showed up, spent the night, and the next morning all we needed to do to check out was just leave. Credit card was charged the expected amount. Never saw any motel personnel. It was kind of neat.
Only came across an unmanned business one other time-- a gas station way out in the country. No attendant, no snacks, just gas pumps. Don't think there was an air hose, but I don't recall that detail. Swipe your credit card and fill 'er up.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:13AM (2 children)
We have lots of gas stations that are like that out here in Montana; also, many that are open more-or-less normal hours still let you at the pumps when they are closed for other business, so the pumps, at least, are 24/7. Swipe the card, pump the gas, and go on your way.
It's very convenient when the next gas station is a hundred miles down the road and someone forgot to completely fill the tank before setting out on a 300 mile road trip. Reporting on a friend.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday November 18 2018, @12:03PM (1 child)
Er, yes, we'd meant to fill up at the previous town and forgot. Realized our mistake when we were 20 miles down the road. Turn back? Or try to make the next city, still about 40 miles away? We pressed on, but more slowly, to save gas. Set the cruise control at 50 mph. And 10 miles later, we spotted that unmanned gas station.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:07PM
Yep, very similar experience here in the middle of the mountains in Utah. At the exit there was a small sign, Gas 10 miles "Thataway". Crossed my fingers and made it with the low fuel warning light on...well after midnight. Credit card worked. When I got home I sent them a short thank-you letter for leaving the pumps on overnight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:14AM (1 child)
This is how it should be
There's a place like this in my home town. Book, get code, enter, stay, leave.
It's a pity the room facilities didn't match the description but that's the hotel business for you
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:56AM
You should see the show "Hotel Impossible." The descriptions that the owners give their respective shit-holes makes me wonder if some people really do live in a parallel dimension. The only thing better is when they react to the bad reviews as Anthony reads them.