{"id":1537,"date":"2011-03-07T03:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-03-07T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T03:11:50","slug":"where-did-i-park-my-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/07\/where-did-i-park-my-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did I Park My Car?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don\u2019t remember who first suggested it, but taking a photo of your parking spot when you\u2019ve parked in a massive parking garage where every turn and every floor looks identical, is a brilliant idea.\u00a0 Consider taking this strategy on the road, if you will, for hotel rooms as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been ages since a front desk agent handed me a brass key ring with a room number on it.\u00a0 Electronic key cards have been around for a generation already.\u00a0 And key cards are giving way to key fobs of sorts, in some technologically advanced hotels.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the keycard, for good security reasons gives no indication what room number it belongs to in the case that it might be lost.\u00a0 However, unless you\u2019re the kind of traveler who keeps the card stock key packet with your plastic key at all times, you\u2019re bound to let the room number slip your mind.<\/p>\n

Take a rather extreme scenario that I experienced one of the last times I visited Las Vegas.\u00a0 I had checked in to the Bellagio rather quickly, unloaded my luggage into my beautiful room and returned to the lobby to meet my sales manager who was going to tour the property with me.\u00a0 She proceeded to show me a half dozen rooms around the resort of various shapes and sizes.\u00a0 I then headed to the Venetian where I\u2019d meet another sales manager and tour that mammoth property.\u00a0 The Venetian, incidentally, has upwards of 7,000 guest rooms, the largest hotel in the hemisphere.\u00a0 And while I can\u2019t attest to having seen all of them, I was shown a great many.<\/p>\n

By the time I returned to the Bellagio, I\u2019d seen enough rooms, been over enough thresholds, been in and out of enough elevators, and down enough hallways, that it would have been a marvel if I could guess my room number at the Bellagio correct in a thousand tries.\u00a0 Mind you, room numbers in Las Vegas are typically five digit numbers.\u00a0 With the Bellagio having nearly 4,000 guest rooms of its own, my choices were to try my card in each lock.\u00a0 Or, humbly, and sober, return to the front desk of the hotel and admit I didn\u2019t have the London foggiest idea behind what door my luggage lay.<\/p>\n

A simple picture of the placard next to my door at Bellagio could have saved some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t remember who first suggested it, but taking a photo of your parking spot when you\u2019ve parked in a massive parking garage where every turn and every floor looks identical, is a brilliant idea.\u00a0 Consider taking this strategy on the road, if you will, for hotel rooms as well. 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