Hotel TV tricks

[T-REX]

Just tell the front desk girl its your birthday and can you get a free movie..bonus points if she joins you to watch it!

 

[T-REX]

Dont know if 1-2-3-4 works on the cable boxes, but 4-3-2-1 on the top 4 selections still works for getting free cokes out of some soda machines........I've heard.

 

[Wiggums]

I don't know how to get free porn, but I do know how to get those &%#$&$ stupid little black things off the back of TV's so I can hook up my PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube.

You need some of the longer car keys, most newer car keys are long enough. Jam one in on each side of the cable and turn.

 

[AlabamaMan!!]

Dont know if 1-2-3-4 works on the cable boxes, but 4-3-2-1 on the top 4 selections still works for getting free cokes out of some soda machines........I've heard.

How do you do this? Just by pushing the buttons........4th one down and on up the chain? Dont some have a little button on top to push for a free pop? Or is that older machines?

 

[T-REX]

Ive heard....4-3-2-1 from 4th button from top up is the default code on the machines. It takes you to an options menu, that lets you eject change, soda, or change the message on the LCD screen to something nasty. It will not work if the code has been changed.

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

A funny TV story....

It was about 10 years ago and the crew had checked in to a hotel in BDL, the Summit, downtown. On the previous trip, one of the F/As had rigged the TV box using his the clip on his ID badge, with the ID still connected. He forgot to disconnect it before checking out and leaving for the airport. He had to call the hotel and tell them where he had left the ID. It was a classic moment when we checked in to the hotel and he had to ask the front desk clerk for his ID back.

 

[Bluto]

I don't know how to get free porn, but I do know how to get those &%#$&$ stupid little black things off the back of TV's so I can hook up my PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube.

WELL? Are you going to make us beg for it?!

You need some of the longer car keys, most newer car keys are long enough. Jam one in on each side of the cable and turn.

Now that's a good one. Once or twice my toothbrush has worked in a similar manner, but the keys are good. The easiest way, though it requires some minor deception, is to ask the front desk if you can borrow some needle-nose pliers. Any other good methods?

 

[Wiggums]

WELL? Are you going to make us beg for it?!
Now that's a good one. Once or twice my toothbrush has worked in a similar manner, but the keys are good. The easiest way, though it requires some minor deception, is to ask the front desk if you can borrow some needle-nose pliers. Any other good methods?

My big problem now is what to do with the little black thing once I've removed it. I'm always torn between destroying it or leaving it for the maid to find. Lately I've been partial to flushing it.

 

[TX_DFW]

I found this link to be informative and intresting on the subject.

I've been flying the friendly skies as an airline pilot since 1999 and have been hacking hotel TV systems since then.

LINK

 

[CapnVegetto]

WELL? Are you going to make us beg for it?!

Sorry, haven't checked this one in a while.

You need a cigarrette lighter and a pair of scissors. Run the lighter flame along the bottom of it and get it soft, (try not to catch it on fire, don't worry, it's easy), and you can slip the scissors right into it, and cut right through it like a hot knife through butter. Once that happens you can either cut it all the way off, or you can just unscrew the cable after bending the little plastic thing back a little bit. Piece of cake. For you airline guys, now that lighters are illegal, you can always buy one at a gas station for like a buck. And.....scissors are easily borrowed from the front desk.

My big problem now is what to do with the little black thing once I've removed it. I'm always torn between destroying it or leaving it for the maid to find. Lately I've been partial to flushing it.

Just throw it in the garbage. The maids don't know any better. I've been doing it for 4 years now.

 

[guido411]

I'm disappointed that you all are making lowslow work so hard for this information. Don't tell me I'm the ONLY one that knows what he's talking about! Some of us are on the road away from our local weatherman for 8 days in a row, we get lonely for that down home forecast and need a little relief. Help this brother out!

 

[Airbus300]

There is a hotel in Miami that only has airline crews as customers. I was there last month, and found that my television wasn't getting any more than 3 staticy channels. I called the front desk, and they sent up the maintenance guy. He told me that the room next door must have disconnected the cable trying to get free movies. He said it happens all of the time, but the problem is if they disconnect the cable, all of the rooms down line in series lose their cable. He tried knocking on the neighbors door, but the zipper head pilot wouldn't open the door. I sat over 18 hours without cable because some idiot screwed with the system. So if you are the zipper head doing this in Miami, they are on to you.

 

[guido411]

Never have had to unplug the cable, must be some other zipper head. If you've got 18 hours to sit in a hotel room why not go OUTSIDE and do something? You're in Miami for cripes sake, nobody likes a "slam-clicker".

 

[wingnutt]

Order a movie; watch about 20-25 minutes; call front desk and tell them the movies has cut out on your tv they take the charge off.

version 2...

...order the movie, let it run for about a minute and call the front desk laughing that theres no way you meant to order that. tell them it was your mistake and could they please take care of it?

one of two results...

1-movie stays on until end
2-movie stays on until end, unless you change the channel.