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BlackBerry Lock-Up at the Chicago Sheraton

Monday June 12, 2006

blackberry.jpgIf you're anything like us, you spend a lot of time on the road for business. When on the road, we always find ourselves using our Blackberry. Perhaps we use them even more than may be healthy. As a tongue-in-cheek perk for guests, the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers offers guests a Blackberry detox program. Hotel general manager Rick Ueno is now offering hotel guests the opportunity to have their BlackBerrys (or any PDAs for that matter) under lock and key until their return is requested, for no charge. As for Ueno, he says he got the idea after his BlackBerry addiction started distracting him from work. We think the PDA lock-up scheme is pretty novel and just the kind of thing that a business traveler could use.

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Posted by Nick L.
7:45 AM in Chicago, Properties, Sheraton
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