Comments on: Somebody’s watching: Hotels take customer relationship management to creepy levels http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/14/somebodys-watching-hotels-take-customer-relationship-management-to-creepy-levels/ Living the first class life -- at coach prices Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:55:54 -0700 hourly 1 By: Bryan Price http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/14/somebodys-watching-hotels-take-customer-relationship-management-to-creepy-levels/#comment-22644 Bryan Price Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:00:53 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/07/14/somebodys-watching-hotels-take-customer-relationship-management-to-creepy-levels/#comment-22644 After six months of three weeks/month staying at the same hotel (the seventh was four weeks, of which I spent the whole four weeks with her), the staff at the Balalaika Hotel in Joburg, ZA know my wife pretty intimately, because she tells everyone about family, me, our double set of twins, work (at least three colleagues stay there as well). I'd hate to think of what more they would learn if they were active about it. Of course, she does seem to know pretty good details of the staff as well. And this gig that was supposed to end shortly is now on for the end of the year, and possibly another six months after that. After six months of three weeks/month staying at the same hotel (the seventh was four weeks, of which I spent the whole four weeks with her), the staff at the Balalaika Hotel in Joburg, ZA know my wife pretty intimately, because she tells everyone about family, me, our double set of twins, work (at least three colleagues stay there as well).

I’d hate to think of what more they would learn if they were active about it.

Of course, she does seem to know pretty good details of the staff as well.

And this gig that was supposed to end shortly is now on for the end of the year, and possibly another six months after that.

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