Wooden hotel keycards to debut next week in Denver

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8-19-2008 @ 3:00PM

Craig said...

Sure, wood is renewable, but AFAIK it's not grown as fast as it's chopped down and used.

I realize a certain percentage of cards will be lost or broken, but don't hotels reuse them over and over? I thought that was one of the main reasons to switch over from regular keys.

8-19-2008 @ 3:06PM

Meg Massie said...

Craig, it would be nice if hotels did reuse the keys, but my experience (from when I worked at a resort front desk in college) is that maybe only 50% of them actually get returned when guests check out, and of that 50%, only half of those are still usable. They get damaged and demagnetized pretty easily. It sounds like the wooden versions will be less prone to damage, anyway. Now if only guests would return them.

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