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The User Experience of hotel alarm clocks

06.11.06 | 5 Comments


I travel a fair bit for work and one of the things that frustrate me are the hotel alarm clocks. They’re usually these big multifunctional radio/CD/alarm monsters with 100 buttons and switches. Getting up on time is the most important thing. The last thing you want to be is late on a business trip. And I don’t trust wake-up calls ever since a hotel messed it up. I always have to test the alarm-clock first and to be sure, I also set the alarm on my Blackberry.
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So it was very nice to see the following device next to my bed in Tokyo. Very simple. The buttons on the left controlled all the lighting in my room. Three buttons to set the alarm; on/off and time up and down. Easy. Another light button on the right plus an airco on/off. Thank you Odakyu Hotel Century Southern Tower.

  • http://www.sinohotel.com/english/hotels/beijing/index.html Beijing Hotels Reservation

    Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

  • http://www.sinohotel.com/english/hotels/beijing/index.html Beijing Hotels Reservation

    Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

  • https://www.jobsindubai.com/job_list.asp?lstIndustryID=15 Dubai Hotel Jobs

    lol!! so you are having a big fight with alarm clocks? well like what you had mentioned above waking up in time is really important especially if your a businessman you can't waste your time

  • http://www.commercialalarms.net/ commercial_alarms

    I'm not finished read this yet, but it's so fabulous 'n I'll back again when I was finished my job :D

  • CookwareReviews

    Glad I am not the only one who fights with their alarm clock while traveling. I perfer a decked out clock to simple one (since that is what i use at home). Just stayed at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs where they have the best alarm clocks I ever used. It’s the only time I can remember traveling and not calling the front desk for a wake up call just in case the hotel provided alarm clock didn’t work right.


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