<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by WHBM:
Why don't those of you who have a hang up about this take the initiative and tell the desk clerk at the beginning that you don't want them to say your room number. </font>
Because it's become such standard practice to keep guest room numbers discreet, silence now goes without saying. It's been years, I think, since a clerk did anything except pass me the little folder with the room number written inside.