Comments on: Mexico City guest hotel lockout makes a picket line seem like child’s play

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:15:21 +0000

Something that I always have done, is keep my laptop case, with my passport, meds, and some money in one of the inside pocket in the same place every night. In case of an emergency like a fire, it only takes a second to grab….Usually, I even slip my wallet into it at night. Most hotels these days have safes that will hold the entire case. It only takes a second to open, and will have your things in it.

By: laura townsend elion

laura townsend elion — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:05:58 +0000

I guess no one called or e-mailed Radisson HQ or execs? And no one Twittered on it? I would think appealing to higher ups would have gotten some result, maybe even law enforcement being dispatched. (Although I do realize that law enforcement in some countries is useless for these sorts of situations). I would have tried something, and methinks a US$20 slipped to one of the sriking workers might have opened up a back door in a country where hotel jobs mean poerty wages.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:03:21 +0000

I’m hearing serious lawsuits against the management of the Radisson hotel down there… And I would agree with you–there’s some serious compensation that needs to happen here… especially if someone _did_ have health problems that were made worse by not taking meds or the like…

The other thing is–if someone were yelling “fire”, would you really pay attention to them? Does it say whether the fire alarms went off in the hotel? If someone were yelling fire, but everything seemed to be working fine, and the fire alarms didn’t go off… I think I’d be calling the front desk to see what was going on….

One last question–how were they keeping the guests out? Were they using force to keep them out or just sheer numbers? There may be additional things that will happen… I think, if I were the hotel management, I’d fire the entire staff on the spot–even if it took closing the hotel temporarily to do it!

By: tony

tony — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:01:56 +0000

i would say if a guest started yelling fire, I’d take a fireaxe and smash the door

or use the trick with the metal thingie

there’s no way i would have sat there and done nothing

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:35:31 +0000

Who locked the guests out? The picket line, or the hotel?

If it were the picket line, I would think a call to the police would resolve the issue of guests going back in to get their belongings…..