Hotel guests see in 2012 peeved

DENVER: New Year’s guests at a Denver Marriott hotel were locked out of their rooms when the clock struck midnight and their room keys stopped working.

The 628-room Denver Tech Center Marriott said a room key malfunction kept guests out of their rooms from midnight until about 3am. The hotel’s general manager, Jennifer Atkins, said it wasn’t known if the malfunction was related to the year change.

KUSA-TV in Denver reported that fights broke out among the locked-out guests, and some revellers got sick in the hallways. Denver police were called to the scene but said no one was seriously hurt.

Atkins said there were no confirmed reports of key card problems at other Marriott hotels. – Sapa-ap