Hi-tech Hotels: Tomorrow's Technology in Present-day Hotels

LONDON, October 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Tablet computers, flatscreens, 3D games' consoles - at this time of the year modern technology will be on many Christmas lists. While iPad & Co. are already part of the basic equipment of technology-lovers many hotels are going even further. hotel.info, the free online hotel reservation service with over 250,000 hotels worldwide, presents the hi-tech hotels which have already introduced tomorrow's technology.

Iris scanner and iPhone as a door opener

In the hotel Blow Up Hall 50/50 [ http://ots.de/yUJC0 ] in Poznan, Poland the guest becomes part of a video installation done by the artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer as soon as they enter the hotel. The hotel is full of hi-tech devices: conventional room keys and room numbers cannot be found in Blow Up Hall. Instead every guest is given an iPhone which serves as their room key.

Remote-controlled rooms

The citizenM hotel Amsterdam City [ http://ots.de/tlkTJ ] in the Netherlands has gone even further with remote-controlled curtains, coloured room lighting and electronic control of the air conditioning. The so-called MoodPad controls all these functions, resembling a futuristic on-board computer.

Exercise for your hot coffee

A very unusual hi-tech experiment was started in 2010 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Copenhagen Towers [ http://ots.de/1mGYK ] in Copenhagen, Denmark, where every guest was given a voucher for the restaurant if they used an exercise bike for 15 minutes and thereby generated electricity for the hotel's own system.

A comprehensive overview with more about hi-tech hotels can be found on the hotel.info blog [ http://www.hotel.info/en/blog/hi-tech-hotels ].

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