Frequent flyers and holidaymakers alike will have stumbled across the essential yet slightly aggravating key card readers that control the power electricity in hotel rooms. Without your hotel room key in the slot, the lights and switches won't work. Many already know that you can put any old card in the slot, in place of your key, but one woman has just learned a new trick.
Instead of reaching into pockets for alternatives, such as a library card or gift card, a travel blogger known as Curious Claire has claimed that a housekeeper's game-changing hack has changed further travel. After witnessing a hotel cleaner using a room's common courtesy item to replace the key card - she hasn't looked back since.
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