Phone Friendly Starwood Hotel

The Starwood Hotel chain is very dedicated to making a guests stay pleasurable, through the use cold technology. Within the next three months, Starwood plans to begin using an app to unlock guest doors in two of its hotels. Anyone with an iPhone or Android will be able to automatically receive their room key, and will be able to unlock their room using Bluetooth technology. Starwood Hotel believes this will be the new standard for hotels, because no one will lose their keys, and it saves time checking in when you first arrive. If the app works well, Starwood will include this luxury in its 1,150 other hotels with the next year.

Some other uses of technology among the Starwood Hotel chain are using solar power and an iPad-specific app. Starwood has begun giving discounts during a "Cyber Monday" sale as well. Also, now used on its websites is Instagram integration, which lets visitors see images that guests have posted in Instagram.