New Hotel Luxury? No BlackBerries
It looks like the new luxury vacation might be one where they take away your little luxuries. At least, they'll take away things like your BlackBerry, which you might have considered to be a luxury item before you were answering e-mails 22 hours each day. Some hotels have instituted programs that allow guests to put their BlackBerries - sometimes dubbed "CrackBerries" for their addictive nature - into storage for the duration of their stay, thus ensuring that you have a chance to relax on your relaxing vacation.
Hotels like the Sheraton Chicago offer no charge for the service, though peace and quiet might actually be worth paying for.
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Kevin Jun 22nd 2006 9:58PM
The company I work for uses them and I'm just utterly amazed at how often I see employees reaching for their hip throughout the day checking their crackberries for new mail. Even more amusing, many of them curse the device and then end up reaching for it within minutes after saying so. Makes me wonder what they do with them when/if they DO go on vacation. Perhaps they should look into this service.
mobility Jul 27th 2006 5:52AM
I think that is a great ideea because we go on vacation to relax, have fun and to forget about our job, boss and stress.
Anyway, when I go in vacation I close my mobile and I try to keep it as much I can closed.