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Where I come from, not being able to exit your hotel room is a very serious safety breach and this hotel would be looking at very significant fines, and probabl
by korginator 10y ago
Where I come from, not being able to exit your hotel room is a very serious safety breach and this hotel would be looking at very significant fines, and probably ordered closed immediately until they fix this "feature".
While this may be fine for high-security bank vaults, it is completely unacceptable for hotel room doors to operate in a fail-secure mode without a backup non-electrical unlocking mechanism as is the case here.
- phil21 10y agoI am highly skeptical people were "locked" in their rooms. I'm guessing it was mostly hyperventilating tourists breathlessly telling the reporter how they were "locked in" their rooms since they couldn't leave and get back in. More like "Bob and I were locked in our room overnight! We couldn't even go downstairs for a nightcap!" vs. "Bob and I were pounding on the door trying to get out for hours!". Locked in on their own volition, essentially. I've traveled a little bit, and I've yet to stay in a hotel that you needed anything electronic to exit.