Quick Tip: Hotel Key Card Storage

One of the things most frustrating about traveling, is when your hotel key card stops working.  Of course, this never happens at a convenient time.  It is usually when you check in and carry all of your luggage and laptop bag through the lobby, into the elevator, through the hallway, and just when you think you are going to relax, your key doesn't work.

Now, you have to lug everything back downstairs, stand in line to see the check-in clerk, and go through the whole process again.

Another popular time is after business dinner when all you want to do is get in your room and go to bed after a long day.  You pull your card out, and, surprise surprise, it fails to unlock your door.  Once again, you are headed back down to the lobby and getting another card.

The key cards could be demagnetized for several reasons, however, the most popular is your cell phone.  There have been numerous times I have just slid my key in my pocket without thinking about it with my cell phone, this always ends badly as far as the room door unlocking.

The best trick I have found is putting the room key in my business card carrier.  This has not failed me yet!  As soon as I receive the key, I immediately pull out my business card holder and insert the key card in there.

Another advantage; chances are if you are on a business trip you will always have your business card holder on your person.  If this is the case, you avoid another annoying situation of traveling: locking yourself out of your hotel room.  Since your hotel key card is in your business card case, and your business card case is always with you, then you are never locked out.