It’s pretty rare these days that you actually get a room key when you go to a name-brand hotel. Over the last several years the industry has changed to various types of cards. In the beginning the locks were mechanical and the cards had holes in them (almost like old-fashioned programming punch cards for computers)….
When I found this on the ground recently, I thought I had another posting for my series on keycards. When I saw that it didn’t have a magnetic stripe, I thought that it might be a “fancy” keycard that uses RFID. However, I’ve played with the card, bent it, tried to cut it, and used…
Another in my series on keycards… I recently found this room keycard for a Sheraton hotel. I don’t know if this was for the Sheraton on the Falls or the Four Points by Sheraton (it’s probably not from the Sheraton at the Falls as that is in the US, but you never know).