fourcats Posted June 29, 2009 #1 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Is it common practice in Spain and Italy to have to leave your key at the front desk if you go out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agabbymama Posted June 29, 2009 #2 Share Posted June 29, 2009 No, you don't leave the key at the front desk in Italy. We stayed at a hotel in Rome and another hotel in Venice in Oct '08. You keep the key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan-M Posted June 29, 2009 #3 Share Posted June 29, 2009 We stayed at a fairly small hotel in Rome adjacent to Piazza Navona where we left our key at the front desk (they asked us to leave it... it was too large to carry around), and I'm pretty sure it was the same practice at the hotel in Barcelona. In Venice (Sofitel) we kept our key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Canuck Posted June 29, 2009 #4 Share Posted June 29, 2009 it was a large brass key with a fairly sizeable knob attached to it...not as bad as a tire rim to an old gas station bathroom but the same idea...too big to lug around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare cruisemom42 Posted June 29, 2009 #5 Share Posted June 29, 2009 It varies by hotel. If the hotel uses room keys (true keys) as opposed to electronic card keys, they will often be attached to a quite large fob to discourage you from carrying it with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipmaster Posted June 29, 2009 #6 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Is it common practice in Spain and Italy to have to leave your key at the front desk if you go out? In Venice the policy in our little hotel near st marks was to leave the key. We felt fine with that. BTW it was one of those old traditional keys from yesteryears. In Barcelona at obviously a different more modern hotel it used a card key and as such we took it with us. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellagirl Posted June 29, 2009 #7 Share Posted June 29, 2009 At this particular hotel in barcelona, the keys are SO huge you have to leave them at the front desk! They have a slot at the front desk to slide them in. shelly:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nparmelee Posted June 29, 2009 #8 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Depends on the place. At the Locanda Orseolo we left our keys with the desk, they were huge and heavy so we were happy to do so. The other hotels had the more modern credit card style keys except our B&B in Rome where we had a bunch of keys so we could get through the three doors we needed to at any time of day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourcats Posted June 29, 2009 Author #9 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Thank you to everyone for your feed back. I can understand why now I do remember seeing photos of the key fobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texancruzer Posted June 29, 2009 #10 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Also..... in some hotels the key must be placed in a slot to make the electric work when you enter your room. We were told they are a bit expensive to replace and were asked to leave them when we went out as they are lost frequently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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