Continuing on the theme of Italian hotels (spoiler alert – there’s another one tomorrow), what do you think of this lock on our hotel room in Montecatini? One downside is that we left our door unlocked the first day because we didn’t realize we had to use the key to throw the bolt or it wasn’t locked.
Here’s the stairwell door in the same hotel. It was a slider that had been around since the Olden Days. I’m not sure why they kept it because it didn’t protect the stairwell and could impede egress if someone didn’t obey the sign.
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Did the knob turn?
Hi Sean –
No, the knob didn’t turn.
– Lori
Just came back from a week in Spain for my cousin’s wedding. I remain surprised at the sort of things that are done in Europe: it appears that double-cylinder deadbolts are found on practically every apartment entry door. I did a semester with my university’s international programs in Madrid in 1999…my dorm room door had a double-cylinder deadbolt. Of course, I kept the key in the inside cylinder whenever I was in there.
Understanding European locks is always fun . A throwback to oval Din euro and profile cylinders and all the conversions of the mortice cassette locks.Sometimes you really wonder .
Well at least there is a door… Many fond memories of high rise hotels in Rome, Naples, Venice, Madrid, etc. that had no stairwell doors, just an open chimney from top to bottom.