Are Hotels Tracking Your Towels? RFID Chips, Stolen Linens & Hotel Room Secrets
That Don‘t Sound RightShow Notes
Ever checked into a hotel, looked at the bathroom, and discovered a warning that your towels and linens contain tracking devices? That’s exactly the kind of thing that makes you stop and say, ”That Don’t Sound Right.”
In this episode Peter returns from his adventure in Geneva. He and Cecil discuss a hotel bathroom sticker spotted in Geneva warning guests that the towels and linens are equipped with RF tracking devices.
Why would a hotel need to track its towels? Is the problem of missing hotel property really big enough to justify the cost of putting tracking technology in sheets and bath linens? And perhaps the most important question: How do those little devices survive the washing machine, industrial laundry equipment, and everything else involved in keeping hotel linens clean?
The conversation takes a turn through the curious world of hotel theft, guest behavior, travel stories, and the surprisingly unusual things people apparently decide are worth taking from a hotel room.
It’s a conversation about modern hotel security, technology, and the strange relationship between guests and the things they find in a room that find there way into luggage.
The hotels are not just throwing in the towel, they are tracking it!
Join Peter and Cecil for another round of old-school conversation, where a simple hotel sticker leads to more questions than answers.
If you find yourself thinking, “That Don’t Sound Right,” you’re one of us.
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