Comments on: Pick up hotel phone and bang head against wall repeatedly

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:32:43 +0000

I saw the blinking light when I checked in, and succeeded in deleting it, after hearing the completely useless voicemail. Perhaps it was well intentioned, but I can do without it.
Hotels overcharged for phone calls for years, and now everyone bypasses their systems by having a cell phone.

Many hotels have crappy internet – I’ve just purchased a cradlepoint router to go with my cellular modem – so now I can bypass their crappy internet too. Actually my cellular connection internet is faster than the hotel’s!

By: Doesn't make sense

Doesn't make sense — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:07:35 +0000

Same scenario as Janice. I could tolerate it alot better if a message came w/ the everlasting blinking red light. What more could be said that I didn’t hear at the front desk already. Am I going to hear: we’re sorry for the annoying red light & the many more unbearable & not-too-soon-to-be-fixed conditions that will take place n this rm. And w/ that new techie thing called the cell phone I am certain that whomever needs me can reach me on that annoying thing as well.

By: Doesn't make sense

Doesn't make sense — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:24:49 +0000

Same scenario as Janice-just a blinking light but know message. I could somewhat tolerate it if it had a message that came w/ it. After the greeting at the front desk, what more is there to say: we’re sorry but besides the annoying blinking red light u will be experiencing these other problems as well! Like “the man” said n a round-about-way: any message I have will come thru today’s most recent technology- the cell phone. If they really want me they can reach me there.

By: The man who notices things

The man who notices things — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:37:51 +0000

Who gets a message on the hotel phone any more? When was the last time you saw someone check into a hotel without a cell phone? I mean really . . .

;-)

By: Carrie Charney

Carrie Charney — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:46:06 +0000

Sorry, Bruce. I have dialed O and they couldn’t figure it out either.

By: Janice Hough

Janice Hough — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:11:10 +0000

We had a worse one at the Radisson Mayfair in London. A message indicator that we could never pick up. Operator showed a message, every time we tried to play it, no message. Never did figure it out…and it turned out not to have been an emergency as we never had anyone say they had called and no one died or anything. But maddening.

By: Bruce InCharlotte

Bruce InCharlotte — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:29:38 +0000

Don’t get frustrated – dial 0 and ask them to figure it out.

By: Ron G

Ron G — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:14:29 +0000

Since no one ever calls me on my hotel phone besides wake up calls, I carry with me a simple item that has many uses……

A roll of black electrical tape. I cover the offending blinking light if it doesn’t go out when I delete the mesages.

And if the light bleeds through the tape, the phone goes in a drawer.