Hotel offers guests iPods with their favourite music preloaded

By redlined on Thursday, March 30th, 2006 comments

The 21C hotel has a great feature, each room has an iPod that is pre-programmed with a guest's favorite music.

People may take the iPod home with them as they leave (though their credit card will be charged).

21C — which stands for 21st Century — is a 91-room boutique hotel at the corner of Seventh and Main streets, developed by Laura Lee Brown and her husband, Steve Wilson. Brown and her family control the Brown-Forman liquor corporation. 21C bills itself as a museum hotel, encouraging its guests to "sleep with art."

Guests will be contacted five to seven days before arrival to determine their needs, from transportation to theater tickets and restaurant reservations, That's the time when we will determine their music preferences to load onto the iPod,"

The public bathrooms at 21C, located on the first floor, are an attraction unto themselves. The men's room has a see-through waterfall that doubles as a urinal. Men can peer through the glass and watch people in the hallway. (People in the hallway can't see in, however.)

What seems slightly odd is we coud understand if it was some great internal sound system that was pre-loaded with the guests' favourite tunes, but something so small as an iPod- it's hardly a hassle to bring their own! What next, a games console with your favourite games :) ?

Via Courier Journal

Official 21C Hotel website