Hotel Security
Jan 22, 2005 | 11:13 am
#16
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Originally Posted by studentff
Sort of OT to the thread, but I've wondered for a while how long it will be before some airline decides to restrict bringing your own food/drink on-board for "sanitary reasons" or "security reasons" as a means of bolstering sales of their overpriced buy-on-board. Kind of like movie theaters. I would hope for a passenger revolt to such stupidity, but you never know with the American Sheeple.
Jan 22, 2005 | 5:04 pm
#17
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Originally Posted by xyzzy
The "Show photo ID when you check in" thing is absurd as well. I was told that this was "For your security" once again over the weekend. They couldn't tell me what security benefit this provided, only that it was "for my security." Every time I've been asked this I've refused and every time they have backed down.
Bruce
Jan 22, 2005 | 5:59 pm
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Originally Posted by bdschobel
Same here. I had a real battle at the Marriott Marquis in NYC last October, but I won eventually. They let me check in when I recited my Marriott Rewards number from memory. That proved I was who I claimed to be!