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You could soon be checking into hotels with just a QR code

The Jurys Inn Hotel Group is to pilot a new system where customers collect their keys from a mobile kiosk.

A NEW METHOD of checking into hotels using just a QR code is to be piloted by the Jurys Inn Hotel Group.

The scheme, already active at one of the group’s hotels in the United Kingdom and in other hotel around the world, allows guests to “bypass the front desk entirely” by picking up their keys from a mobile kiosk in the hotel.

Guests do this by scanning a QR code which has been sent to their phone, having confirmed their arrival times via text or email ahead of their arrival.

The move is a response to a large increase in the number of bookings made on mobile devices.

“Our customers are increasingly using mobile devices to make bookings so it is important we adapt our services in line with this changing consumer behaviour,” Group Marketing Manager Suzanne Cannon said.

Between 2012 and 2013, the hotel group saw the number of customers making bookings from mobile devices increase by 80 per cent, with visits to the hotel’s website increasing by 110 per cent in the same period.

The hotel group aims to roll this service out to 31 hotels in across Ireland, the United Kingdom, and in Prague.

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    Jan 12th 2025, 5:37 PM

    night time restrictions on water because on ice … really ?

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    Jan 12th 2025, 6:30 PM

    @Dominic Leleu: Did you not know that when water freezes (becomes ice) it expands and can cause damage to pipes?

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    Jan 12th 2025, 6:33 PM

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    Jan 13th 2025, 6:38 AM

    @Dominic Leleu: queue water or tax on water charges!!!

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    Mute Diarmuid Hunt
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    Jan 13th 2025, 8:33 AM

    @Athena: Yes, in other colder countries that experience that level of cold yearly… I suppose we’ll be copying countries that experience 40+ degree heat regularly in their mitigation strategies too?

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    Jan 12th 2025, 5:44 PM

    That’s annoying. I charge up my water powered car at night-time :-(

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    Jan 13th 2025, 3:20 AM

    @Chop Chop: that probably sounded funny in your head.

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    Jan 12th 2025, 5:26 PM

    What rubbish when ice melt its water so how shortage? Lies by this

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    Jan 12th 2025, 6:26 PM

    @Colonel Gaddafi: Do you want to try that again when you sober up?

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    Jan 13th 2025, 5:19 AM

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    Jan 12th 2025, 5:02 PM

    The government may consider expanding it to take in some areas of Kerry and North Tipperary .

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    Jan 13th 2025, 1:08 PM

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    Jan 12th 2025, 8:37 PM

    There’s always the Shannon!

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    Jan 13th 2025, 5:30 AM

    The water charge policy is still on the table so they need to keep banging on about the state of the infrastructure, they will have their way, eventually.

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    Jan 12th 2025, 9:14 PM

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