Bringing this up for MomOfBoys.
http://www.comfortsuites.com/hotel/NC559?promo=bingmap
Really nice hotel. 100% smoke free. Looks very similar to the one I stayed in. Only one entrance, you walk right past the reception desk. Only one elevator.
At least at the one I was at, and the pics of this one look like it was built exactly the same way.
Also, I didn't notice ANY security camera's. Maybe because I had no reason to worry about them. Or maybe because they were hidden. Don't know. But they certainly weren't obvious.
Thanks!
Most hotels are franchisees nowadays. For instance, with Marriott, there were only a handful of company-owned hotels and that was four years ago. I work for an Intercontinental Hotels Group property (HI, HIE, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge, Crowne Plaza, etc) and security cameras are not company mandated to my knowledge. Our ownership elected to do it at their expense.
Our cameras don't leap out at you, but we make no effort to hide them.
Keycards could play a big role, especially if it was some kind of handoff to an already registered guest. You can read the locks and see every access, the time it was accessed, and the increment of time between accesses. You can tell if a guest used the key, or if it was a housekeeper, MOD, etc, and which one. If they read the other locks, they can check out anyone who entered their room in that timespan. At that time of morning during the week in a hotel of that size, you're probably dealing with a handful of rooms. Most people at that hour will either be leaving for good, or coming back from an early breakfast.
I often work 7-3 MOD shifts and at that time of day you just don't see a lot of activity. Maybe this property has more of a business demographic, but our business guests are generally out of the room, picking up some breakfast and gone. It'd be the room ENTRIES that'd be interesting, and those are a lot more rare.
