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The Moscow wing runs on Moscow Time. The Tokyo on Tokyo Time and so on. If you don't need the Moscow wing this week, It gets to be the Rome wing on Rome time.
Guests use the soundproofed and light proofed rooms to adapt to their inflowing itinerary or stay in their home time frame as they desire.
The hotel staff makes slightly more money and complains freely about serving breakfast at midnight and having to act all perky.
The short lived TV series about the hotel makes a big deal about swapping pictures and statuary as wings transform. Without good writers the series implodes in a year, but makes the hotel and it's imitators a household word for 90 days.
Added Jan 13
To see if feasible:
At Major International Airport make an two year partnership among 8 eight nearby Hotels. There are 24 time zones. Roll dice for which hotel gets to host guests from which 3 adjacent time zone block. Let one name hotel run the project and manage guests making transitions from one zone to another. Bring in some Doctor's or researchers to help make it look professional.
Charge a sliding scale room rent so the rich get soaked and poor need to provide blood draws and complete silly tests.
If the partnership actually breaks even, there will be time then to design and float an offering to build a special purpose hotel.
For [fries]...
http://io9.com/5973...s-a-monstrous-guest
[normzone, Jan 13 2015]
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This is a surprisingly good idea [+]. |
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People would visit just for the novelty. |
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It is a good idea. For short business trips between
Europe and the US, it might work. |
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Ideally, the lighting would mimic natural lighting
during the local "daytime". You'd also want
communal areas (bars, restaurants) on the right light
cycle. A big hotel complex could also provide a range
of services so that you are less likely to need to leave
the hotel (which would jar with your bodyclock). |
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Taking this to extremes, you'd also have gardens
which were floodlit powerfully enough to mimic
daylight. |
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Surely just 2 of each (bar, restaurant), one bluish daylight, the other reddish night light. Staff and visitors could visit according to their own preferences. |
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Or the hotel could be toroidal with a central courtyard, the time zones moving round like a 24 hour clock face. |
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You'd need a special zone for New Zealand, of course, because when
it's Midnight in New York, in Wellington it's still only 1961 ... |
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(+) I read this as International Shifting Hotel for Time Travelers but that would be far too practical. |
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Of course, if these bloody foreigners were less
awkward about where they put their countries, we
wouldn't have all this faff. They only do it to annoy,
you know. |
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No, they only do it because they don't (indeed, can't) know any
better, not being English. |
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Blaming them for wanting their own time zones is like blaming a
four week old puppy for messing on the carpet; it's not their
fault, they simply don't know any better, and need education.
Special "re-education" camps, with plenty of barbed wire,
searchlights, and random unjustified beatings have been found to
be acceptably effective.* |
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Admittedly the majority of foreigners are less trainable than
most puppies, but that's their own fault for insisting on being
foreign. Clearly they just don't want to be helped. |
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*except for the french, for whom the best treatment is
immediate humane** euthanasia. |
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** Wear thick gloves so that your palm doesn't get bruised when
you shoot them in the back of the head. |
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[+] May I reserve a room in the halfbaked wing? |
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According to Conor Woodman (Around the World in 80
Trades) in China their are cities on the western border
where they start working two hours later according to
Peking time but then end early according to the local
time. |
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If one examined the history of then 18th and 19th
centuries, or visited any Canadian ski field or Australian
beach in the 20th or 21st centuries, it would quickly
become apparent that the Brits seem to prefer any
timezone BUT their own. Perhaps because it is always
mean? |
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If this idea permitted the Poms to experience non-
Greenwich timezones without imposing their presence upon
the rest of us, then I'm all for it. |
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