Not to mention that if you buy out the 38th floor (top floor) of the Marriott Rivercenter for 5 days you can have access to any room you want!
Have a great weekend!

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Patrick Cunningham
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [RM] OT - Hotel room spam


I am certain that the advertising material was placed there by hotel
staff. I had left the do not disturb sign on my door and my package
(sans the flashlight) was left under my door.

I can't speak to the arrangements that were made very specifically. As
others have noted, this is common conference practice, although this is
a first for me personally. Once upon a time, there was a daily
conference newspaper that was distributed to all attendees' rooms every
morning. The newspaper was used to promote daily events and the various
things going on at the Expo.

If your room was not secured when you came back to it, you should have
immediately notified the hotel management.

Given that hotel staff regularly enter your room for various things (as
noted by PeterK), I would not consider this a particular issue of
concern.  I would expect that the items were left in the rooms because
the flashlight had some value -- and also because an item hanging on
the door might indicate that the occupant was away or that the room
would be unoccupied during conference hours. I suppose that aspect of
security overrode the concern about hotel staff entering the room. In
my case, I know that my room was entered by hotel staff three times a
day:

+ The housekeeper
+ A housekeeping supervisor
+ The nightly turndown / refresh housekeeper

I also had some cleaning dropped off at one point. So it is certainly
not uncommon for hotel staff to be in your room at regular intervals.

We can certainly argue the "spam" aspect of the delivery, but it is
certainly little different than the flood of advertising material that
comes in prior to conference.

Patrick Cunningham, CRM

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