Which hotels are hooking up guests with high-tech toys?

June 30th, 2009 admin

Toothpaste, shoe polish — hotels have long supplied guests with easy-to-forget items. But now you can even leave your high-tech amenities at home. Five Rosewood properties in the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean have begun offering guests the use of high-definition digital camcorders


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