Urban legend?

[clinthopson]

I received an email from a friend that said that when you check into a hotel and they give you one of those plastic key cards, the card contains not only the room coding but your credit card number and your address.

Anyone know anything about this?

If this is true, I'm never giving those cards back again.

[Brian Olewnick]

Ask and ye shall receive:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp

[jazzgirl]

i can understand having the guests name and room information, but what is the point of having credit card information on those keys?

[Gary Sisco]

Welcome to freedom!

And protection of your privacy!

[bluenoter]

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

Ask and ye shall receive:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp

For those of you who didn't click on that link:

Yes, urban legend.
Status: False

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[tippy]

i'm more worried about the hidden cameras that livestreams hotel guests watching tv over the internet

[Jazzzoline]

Why?
Do you keep your shoes on, on the bedspread?

[tippy]

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by tippy

i'm more worried about the hidden cameras that livestreams hotel guests watching tv over the internet

Now, Tippy. You know we never turn on the TV when we are in the hotel together.

[tippy]

hotels schmotels. I'm talking about people who do go to hotels. What I hate about hotels the most are those nasty bedspreads that feel like a brillo pad.

[patricia]

What bothers me, when I bother to think about it, is knowing that although the sheets, pillowcases and towels in a hotel are always freshly laundered, the blanket and bedspread are not. And the pillows are the same pillows that were used by the previous thousands of guests.
I don't dwell on it, or I'd never stay in a hotel.
But, there it is.

[Sandi22]

Some people actually take their own bedding and you might perhaps do the same if you saw the reports on television after checking out the bedding, the floors and just about everything else in a hotel room. Top rated hotels at that. It didn't much matter as to the class of the clientele, they all had some people who had stayed in the rooms with some dirty habits. Pretty disturbing as well as disgusting. Yuk!

[Jimmy Cantiello]

I hate people. I really do.

[julieswi]

Originally Posted by patricia

What bothers me, when I bother to think about it, is knowing that although the sheets, pillowcases and towels in a hotel are always freshly laundered, the blanket and bedspread are not. And the pillows are the same pillows that were used by the previous thousands of guests.
I don't dwell on it, or I'd never stay in a hotel.
But, there it is.

i have worked in hotels all across this country and its true, the blankets get washed once in a blue moon. I cant help to think of it everytime Im in a hotel. I always take that bedspread off the bed before i get in!

[Gary Sisco]

Jimmy -- Can't say I hate them but with rare exceptions, I've certainly become indifferent in my advancing years. I prefer my horses and dogs, apart from those rare exceptions. Almost all of the time, they're smarter and more sensitive, in their own ways, which are the only ones they have. They *use* what they have, though. That's the biggest difference, I think. Far's loyalty and heart goes, they're unquestionably superior.

[Jimmy Cantiello]

I'm still trying to convince Joanne that 95% of the world's population (at least the ones that I've dealt with in my lifetime) are inconsiderate, self-centered, irresponsible, narcissistic, natural resource wasting, ignorant assholes. I estimate that 5% of all people are pretty cool. I truly believe this, not even kidding.

[Jazzzoline]

Is there any difference with their bedspread?

[Gary Sisco]

Jimmy -- I'd not differ enough to even quibble.

[Alastair]

The other great hotel urban myth is that if you phone reception and ask for "extra pillows" they organise a prostitute to come to your room. "Do you want them big and fluffy, sir", etc.

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Originally Posted by Alastair

The other great hotel urban myth is that if you phone reception and ask for "extra pillows" they organise a prostitute to come to your room. "Do you want them big and fluffy, sir", etc.

Ahem, are you speaking from experience, Alastair?

[groover]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Cantiello

I hate people. I really do.

I love mankind. It's people I can't stand!

[groover]

Originally Posted by Alastair

The other great hotel urban myth is that if you phone reception and ask for "extra pillows" they organise a prostitute to come to your room. "Do you want them big and fluffy, sir", etc.

I can imagine your disappointment.

[Gary Sisco]

Legend or film? You decide.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=F2...&fg=&GT1=10056

Strangely, it looks much like video I once saw claiming to show Champ, the Lake Champlain version.

[clinthopson]

Originally Posted by Alastair

The other great hotel urban myth is that if you phone reception and ask for "extra pillows" they organise a prostitute to come to your room. "Do you want them big and fluffy, sir", etc.

Apparently, I'm not asking in quite the right way.