Ahora que oficialmente vivo en un hotel, esto que me llegó por correo me ha llegado al corazón. Pa’ los que no sepan inglés: tanta letra para decir que en las tarjetas-llave de los hoteles hay un montón de información personal del huésped, no lo justo para abrir puertas.

Lo paso por si es verdad… cosa que no me extrañaría, en realidad.

HOTEL KEY CARDS

Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?Answer  :
a. Customer’s name
b. Customer’s partial home address
c. Hotel room number
d. Check-in date and out dates
e. Customer’s credit card number and expiration date!When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the hotel scanner.   An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.

Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until an employee reissues the card to the next hotel guest.  At that time, the new guest’s information is electronically  ‘overwritten’  on the card and the previous guest’s information is erased in the overwriting process.

But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it is usually kept in a drawer at the front desk with  YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!

The bottom line is : Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them. NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER turn them into the front desk when you check out of a room.