Most hotel rooms require a key card to include electricity, air conditioning and ventilation. A clever trick on how to make a slot think it has a card was recently demonstrated on social media. Tourists told how you can leave the room without turning off the electricity.
This life hack will come in handy if travelers want to leave gadgets / phones to charge in their room, but do not want to sit under lock and key. The British tourist shared on Twitter her method of solving this problem.
“I wanted to charge my battery while I had dinner, but I needed my key card,” she wrote. Instead, she decided to try to replace the key card with an analog. The tourist inserted a discount card from a popular supermarket into the slot. Surprisingly, this method worked. “I turned off all the lamps by hand so as not to be too wasteful, I just needed an hour or two to recharge the old battery,” she added.
The post has been retweeted hundreds of times, and some users have called the girl’s revelation “the turn of the century.” “I am 42 years old, and I did not know that any card would work,” wrote one of the tourists in the comments.
The trick impressed even hotel workers. “I am shocked. I worked in 5-star hotels and never encountered it, “wrote one of them.
As it turned out, some resorted to more intricate methods. So, under the post, one of the commentators wrote that he tried to insert a piece of folded cardboard into the slot to reproduce the hotel card of the guest. However, he did not specify whether his scheme worked.