Special offers and upgrades are being limited during the soft launch. Slow and steady wins the race. Or you break it, you bought it. Or better safe than sorry. Or something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOnce you’ve chosen your upgrade, or declined, the kiosk requests a phone number and \ne-mail address, and the touchscreen is used for a digital signature.<\/p>\n
Then, the self check-in kiosk generates your room keys.<\/p>\n
That’s it. That’s the whole thing. And the entire process takes an average of four minutes, even if you’re lethargic. Think about it, even if there’s a line three people deep, that’s a 12 minute check-in. What, you thought we were using the word “miraculous” lightly?<\/p>\n
If your room isn’t ready when you check in at the self-serve kiosks, you’ll get a note via e-mail telling you when you can come back and get your keys.<\/p>\n
Other details about the self-serve kiosks: Guests can start their check-in online or via text message prior to arrival (they can text CHECKIN3 to 277466) can cut their check-in time in half. They’ll just sign and get their keys at the kiosk. Also of note, the kiosk can print or e-mail a room assignment slip that includes directions to the appropriate elevator bank.<\/p>\n
The ability to check out at the self-serve kiosks will be added soon.<\/p>\n
We don’t know much, but we do know this lightning-fast check-in process is likely to \nbecome the standard in Las Vegas, delivering visitors to their rooms (and the casino) in record time.<\/p>\n
It should be noted, by the way, the lines at the Linq Hotel aren’t often very long, but there are lots of hotels in Vegas where waits of hours aren’t uncommon. You know who you are.<\/p>\n
As we said, the kiosks at Linq Hotel are in a soft launch phase, but from what we \nobserved, they’re off to an amazing start. Our biggest question was, “Why in the hell \nare these people still standing in line at the hotel check-in desk with people behind \nit?”<\/p>\nMust be a masochists convention in town, because why else are these people voluntarily standing in a line when there are robots ready to do our bidding?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt seems some guests like the human interaction. Go figure. We’d personally prefer a \nfew more hours of drinking and gambling, but to each their own.<\/p>\n
Die-hard Las Vegas regulars may also miss the opportunity to do the $20 upgrade \ntrick, where a guest discreetly slides a $20 bill (a tip, essentially) to hotel staff \nin the hopes of getting a room upgrade.<\/p>\n
For must of us, though, these innovative kiosks—the first in Las Vegas as far as we know—are a creative answer to an age-old problem at Las Vegas hotels. Specifically, “What the hell?”<\/p>\n
Once word about these kiosks gets out, we expect the Express Services area at the Linq Hotel is going to get very crowded. Specifically, with executives from competing resorts taking copious notes.<\/p>\nWhat happens in Vegas happens a hell-ton sooner thanks to these bad boys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCaesars Entertainment make take some hits (we should know, we used to work there), but the technology nerds at Caesars Entertainment have nailed it again. Last time, they let us use our smartphone as a room key at The Cromwell. Four-minute check-ins are going to earn them the right to use the term “game-changer,” irony-free.<\/p>\n
Expect the Linq’s express self check-in kiosks to crop up across Las Vegas, with Flamingo Las Vegas the next in line to institute them.<\/p>\n
Now that you have hours of your life back, make the most of them. And, yes, damaging your liver qualifies. Technology can take care of everything.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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