What is your expectation of the hotel’s response to an extended power outage?
I was in a Fairfield in Cheyenne WY last weekend. I checked in at 4:00PM. I was in the elevator and the power went out. The transformer blew out front after a big lightning strike. The elevator went to the first floor and opened. Whew,
After 2.5 hours of sitting in my hotel room in the dark, I decided to go out with some friends for dinner, we asked the hotel clerk (she was the only employee in the building) if she had a plan to move guests if the power stayed out In the dark. She had no plan, not had her management. I was not really planning on spending the night in a hotel with no power.

Luckily, the power came on an hour later while we were out. But it got me thinking about what a proper response should be, and whether the hotel can safely have guests with no power overnight.

Surely others have experienced this. Is there a protocol? Would you stay in a hotel without power? When does the hotel decide to move the guests?

after the power came back on, there were a ton of electrical problems. I had to move rooms because the climate control in my room wouldn’t turn back on and the windows didn’t open. The young lady a the desk was the sole employee and there was no maintenance tech available to come over and reset the climate control systems. I thought that was weird as well. But that’s not really relevant to the discussion. I wonder when or if they would have decided to move the guests?