Everything’s up to date in Dublin City

It’s better than a magic lantern show.

The TV in our hotel room greets us by name, and provides a personal wifi bubble, so that the sniffers on the iPads and our smartphones can detect the presence of wifi in our and adjacent rooms, but our room’s wifi has a unique password. The hotel lobby and bar have a less secure public wifi network, but perhaps this is a little more secure. What’s more, with an app that is provided via the TV, I can transfer content from my smartphone or tablet or laptop to the TV. If only I had some interesting content.

What’s also fun is the fine custom, which we have seen elsewhere in other European hotels, of providing bedside switches for all the lights in the room, including night lights. Some day, perhaps all the switches will work electronically over the networks.

Also encountered the Eurofeature of using the room’s electronic key card as a master switch for all the room’s electricity. You put your key card in a slot by the room door to enable the electricity, and when you leave with your key, all the lights turn off after a delay. So yesterday we’re about to leave the room and where’s the second key? Searching in puzzlement, until finally, oops, it’s here in the door switch. The curse of jet lag…or old age…or American mindset.