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Re: Hotel Reservations



I'm glad you happened to mention the motion sensor. We saw one in a
corner near the ceiling of our room in a very new Westin (Westminster,
CO) last weekend. There was no notice in the room. My husband thought it
was a motion-sensor night light, but I didn't see any useful light come
from it. Now I understand why, when he returned alone one day and sat at
the opposite end of the room, he could not get the thermostat to adjust
the temperature.

It was a little unnerving to see the mysterious motion sensor, as it was
pointed at the bed, not attached to the thermostat! :~)

Kathy Sturdevant, historian
author, Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History




On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:31:24 -0500 Shelly Henley Kelly
<shelly@ROSENBERG-LIBRARY.ORG> writes:
> Another observation about hotel rooms and energy charges:  While in
> Fort
> Worth for the Society of Southwest Archivist meeting last month, I
> noticed that my hotel room had a motion sensor attached to the
> thermostat.  According to a printed notice in the room, we could set
> the
> thermostat to our comfort level, but the motion sensor would be able
> to
> detect when we had left the room for the day and therefore shut down
> the
> a/c (to save energy).  The motion sensor would then detect when you
> return to the room and begin cooling again.  According to the
> notice, it
> could take up to ten minutes for your room to return to your desired
> temperature.
>
> One major problem.  My roommate and I usually did not return to the
> room
> until late in the evening.  We moved around the room very little in
> preparations for bed and the room never properly cooled off.  We
> were in
> bed and asleep and the motion sensor cut off the air again.  We woke
> up
> several times in the night to reprogram the thermostat because it
> got so
> warm in the room.  This went on for three nights.
>
> We have said that next time we'll carry a metronome to set up in
> front
> of the motion sensor.  :-)
>
> As an aside, the hotel was charging a $3 per person, per room, per
> night
> "energy fee", but our contract with them precluded it, and we did
> not
> have to pay.
>
> Shelly Henley Kelly
> Archivist
> Galveston & Texas History Center
> Rosenberg Library
> Galveston TX
>
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