According to the Mystery Shopping Providers Association (MSPA) there are some 30, 000 of them in the U.S., hired by luxury hotel brands to check-in anonymously and judge mercilessly.
Once completed, Nobu Hotel will have 180 rooms, 16 suites, a private elevator bank leading up to the hotel tower, a separate check-in area and its own service staff.
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The Foursquare check-in for the McKittrick Hotel is full of tips about rooms to explore and actors you must follow.
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There is even a national website for travelers to check-up on the hotel they plan to stay in.
We've seen it integrated into check-in everywhere from the new Hotel Missoni Kuwait to Hyatt hotels across the country.
The Palms in Las Vegas is matching hotel guest check-ins with Klout scores.
The major hotel chain that figures out a way to implement "anytime check-in" on a mass scale will become the new Hilton.
The hotel's round-trip shuttle transports you and your creative-director-in-crime from Miami International Airport to the luxurious hotel, where you receive a bottle of sparkling wine at check-in and an upgrade from a studio to a stylish one-bedroom suite.
If your tolerance for Brooklyn preciousness is low, limit yourself to dinner and resist the urge to check out the hotel rooms upstairs: they are lovely in a reclaimed-wood-and-exposed-brick kind of way, but the twee factor is pretty intense.
Occasionally, she'll check in as the most obnoxious breed of hotel guest: the road-weary whiner.
After a six-hour flight from New York I check into the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village near Los Angeles, exhausted.
In addition to the 210 bedrooms, the hotel will feature three meeting rooms, a 110-seat restaurant, a bar and self check-in kiosks.
With its convenient location above the Kowloon transit center and the adjoining upscale shopping complex Elements, the Kowloon-side W hotel and the Ritz make for good meeting spots for jet-set travelers before they rush off to check in downstairs for their next flight.
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