Comment by quesera
1 day ago
> My key has "Apartment Name, Apartment Number" engraved into the head
Hotels learned not to do such silly things several decades ago.
I'm surprised that your building management lacks such obvious wisdom.
1 day ago
> My key has "Apartment Name, Apartment Number" engraved into the head
Hotels learned not to do such silly things several decades ago.
I'm surprised that your building management lacks such obvious wisdom.
It's been a real lifesaver, whenever a guest loses the guest key it just ends up back in my mailbox eventually.
Also, like 80% of the hotels I've stayed at in the last year have the hotel name on the keycard, though admittedly they usually don't include the room number.
The remaining 20% had physical keys with keychain fobs that had the room number and often hotel name (typically japanese ryokans do this)
Interesting. I might live in a lower-trust society than you do.
I'd greatly prefer to lose keys forever, anonymously, than to trust that a random human who is presented with a key and instructions for finding the lock it fits, will not be the sort to take advantage of the situation.
In the latter case, I'm changing my locks anyway, which is far more onerous than just making a new copy of the key.