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    Hope this is useful and interesting... I'm working on a project that aims to identify what people need and desire in a perfect hotel room. When you’re staying at a hotel, you want a technology and entertainment experience that matches what you have at home, but sadly that’s rarely the case.

    The project I'm working on,‘Our Hotel Room’, is to develop a hotel room collaboratively online, and then build it in the real world. The room will showcase the most useful technology and hospitality amenities for hotel guests.

    To get involved in the creation of the first ‘Our Hotel Room’, people can click onto the website (www.ourhotelroom.co.uk) and suggest a service they would most like included and or they can “vote” from the example recommendations.

    The recommendations and the votes will feed into plans to actually build ‘Our Hotel Room’. Leading magazine Business Travel World has partnered with iBAHN, the worldwide leader in digital entertainment and internet solutions for the hospitality and meeting industries to promote the collaborate project.

    It'd be great to get your views on what would make an ideal hotel room. Thanks
    Tim

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    Funny, I just experienced the perfect hotel room at Amansara in Cambodia last month! No in-room TV, no in-room internet AT ALL, and (gads!) an old-fashioned key to enter the room. Loved it.

    Just playing devil's advocate on this one - It may come as a surprise to some, but many of us who take vacations do so to GET AWAY from technology altogether...

    A first glance of your website indicates a heavier preference for the business traveler, but not exactly the leisure traveler.

    Don't get me wrong, I am by no means a luddite at home... but on holiday, the LAST thing I personally want is something like "Tiered internet connectivity, incorporating a free base service with the addition of paid-for packages charged by bandwidth demand".

    I am assuming your site is more geared towards business travelers, yes?

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    Agree with J.L.--technology is not very important.

    No matter why I am traveling, my two top priorities are (1) quiet and (2) excellent, 24-hour service. When I am traveling for business, I prefer a decent internet connection, preferably wireless. I don't care about any other technology, and in fact would find features like feedback on the carbon footprint of my heating and lighting use to be even more irritating that the little signs some hotels leave about asking you to help them be kinder to the environment by not giving you clean towels daily.

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    Convenient technology is wonderful, however at the same time, it all comes down to the -quality- of service (technology or personal/human).

    I think the the perfect room, would have the best of both combined together smoothly. Finding that perfect balance, I would guess, is the tricky part.

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    I agree. I'm not sure technology is going to create the "perfect hotel room." From my experience, hotels that offer the highest levels of hospitality rarely rely on high technology.

    This reminds me of a similar discussion topic from a few months ago about hotel pet peeves. There are a lot of good suggestions for hotels there.

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    I agree that the perfect hotel room has really nothing to do with technology. Nice shampoo, many pillows, etc are nice but the one thing that I would really love to have is Doves in my hotel room. In a cage. They coo and make lovely music. And it's kind of nice to come back to a hotel and have your little "vacation pets" waiting for you. And if you don't want them, they can be taken out.

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    Nanoose you really can't be serious! Doves in cages!!!! Apart from it being a ridiculous idea, do you really think birds should be locked in cages!!!

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    Murphy: I'm sorry, I forgot the rules: My perfect hotel room is whatever you think it should be. By all means, chastise an idea that doesn't fit into what you think is acceptable. Sounds like you have an open mind. There is another website you may want to post to called Luxury Travel Fascism style. Birds in cages? Is that a foreign concept to you? Have you ever had the privelege to keep doves? They are lovely to look at and sing like angels. They are like live peices of art in your home. As I said in my post, if you don't want them in your perfect hotel room, have them removed.

    Thanks from: DonPablo
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    Good for you, Nanoose!

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    travelista, that was one of my favorite threads in here :).

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