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Japanese Hotel Offers Rooms for $1 With A Pretty Huge Catch
Travelling abroad, particularly to distant countries, can be quite an expensive affair. Not only do you have the cost of the flight, but you also have the necessary expense of hotels. Well, presuming you’re not going to want to sleep on the streets each night. One Japanese hotel, however, is…
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Japanese Love Hotel Offers (Naked?) Dance Dance Revolution
Japanese Love Hotel Offers Dance Dance Revolution! I’m going to start this by assuming that our gentle readers will have absolutely no idea what a ‘love hotel’ is. Well, put simply, it’s a concept pretty much unique to Japan which offers rooms on an ‘hourly’ basis for the free-exchange of…
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Japanese Hotel ‘Sacks’ Half It’s Robot Workforce
Japanese Robot Hotel There is always something rather pleasant about finding a hotel with a few quirks. For example, a recent trend has seen former city jailed converted into ‘prison’ themed hotels. The Henn na Hotel in Japan, however, offered something more than a little different. It was, essentially, the first…
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Engineer Fined For Blogging How To Hack A Hotels Wifi
Engineer Fined For Blogging How To Hack A Hotels Wifi We’ve all tried at some point to gain access to a network we probably weren’t supposed to. For the vast majority of us, this ends at not knowing the passwords. For others though, they decide to take this a little further.…
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Blogger Jailed After Hotel Stunt Goes Wrong
Blogger Goes To Jail Sometimes it seems clear that in the pursuit of fame and fortune, some internet personalities, bloggers, or commentators take things way too far. Logan Paul is certainly one in recent months who has felt the ire of a video gone wrong. One girl in China, however, pulled…
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Hotel Bans All Bloggers After Receiving Proposal For A ‘Free Stay For Promotion’
Hotel In Dublin Bans All Bloggers and “Social Media Influencers” Being a celebrity can have its perks, perhaps a trip to the VIP room, a complimentary gift basket. It does, however, come under a somewhat different light when you are a pseudo-celebrity or a “social media influencer”. Elle Darby is…
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Get Your Own Storyline at Disneys Star Wars Hotel
The next Star Wars cast Member? Ever wanted to star in your own Star Wars movie? Or stay in a Star Wars themed Hotel? Well, Disney has done just that and made your dream a reality. Of course, it’s going to be costly. However, the opportunity to recreate a dream…
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Hotel Ransomed After Hackers Lock Guests’ Rooms
A four-star hotel in Austria was forced to pay ransom worth thousands of Bitcoins after hackers took control of its electronic locking system, preventing guests from either leaving or entering their rooms. The renowned Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, positioned at the foot of the Alps, revealed details of the theft to…
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Las Vegas Wynn to Install 4700 Amazon Echos
Amazon has been having a lot of success with their Echo and Echo dot devices, as well as the built-in Alexa AI. We should know, the eTeknix boss has 7 of them, and I’ve got 2, doing all kinds of home automation magic. Now the Wynn in Las Vegas is…
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Japan’s Robot Hotel Has Velociraptor Receptionist
Why open a hotel staffed almost exclusively by robots, with a Velociraptor behind the reception desk? Because Japan, of course. Henn na, or Weird Hotel in English, uses automated systems and human-like automatons – plus one dinosaur-shaped one – to fulfil the needs of its guests. The Velociraptor, donned with…
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Robot Hotel Opens And Greets Human Guests
Science fiction dictates that a variation of building will be or is being run by robots, the notion of walking into a complex and being confronted by the manager who is “Dave 2.0” and is a shiny robot seemed farfetched. Well, now you can experience just this with the grand…
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Marriott Hotel to Offer Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora to Guests
The Marriott hotel chain is trialling a new in-room entertainment package in eight of its hotels that includes access to video streaming platforms Netflix and Hulu, plus internet radio service Pandora. “We have invited leading technology companies and content providers to work with us to design the next wave in…
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TripAdvisor Fined in Italy Due to Misleading Reviews
TripAdvisor has received a hefty fine from the Italian government for misleading reviews. The popular website must pay $611,842 to the The Italian Competition Authority. The authority said that the website failed to implement sufficient measures to prevent fake reviews while advertising the site as a source of “authentic and genuine” assessments from people…
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Amazon to Enter Travel Business
Amazon is to arrive in the travel business. They’re reportedly launching ‘Amazon Travel’, allowing you to book hotel rooms from their website. The new service, which is rumoured to launch in January, would allow hotels to list rooms available, with Amazon taking a 15% cut on any earnings made from the site.…
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Leave a Bad Review, Get Fined £100
A British couple have been ‘fined’ £100 after leaving a bad review on TripAdvisor about a hotel they visited. Tony and Jan Jenkinson visited the hotel in Blackpool for one night and were unimpressed with their stay. Like many of us, they vented their frustration on TripAdvisor, only to find…
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