Originally Posted by
acpilot
I've had this happen to me a few times, usually at one particular hotel. The solution I came up with is to ask for two keycards when I check-in. This greatly reduces the number of times I need to go back to the front desk as at least one of them will work.
I agree - in the 130 nights this past year across four continents, one particular hotel had all of the instances of key card failure, and at that location it was an almost every day occurrence.