Do Hotel key cards contain anything other than an access code for the room?

Nope.

All they have on them is the room number, and the electronic code to unlock the door.

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are you sure of that
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by Doyler - you have got to be kidding me! on June 19th, 2009
I used to be employed in the hotel industry, when those cards first came out, and one of my responsibilities at the front desk was encoding them.
The reason they don't have any guest information on them, is sometimes the cards are kept as souvenirs and/or discarded.
A hotel would not want someone to find a discarded card, place it in an easily obtained "card reader," and learn some confidential information about one of their guests.
The hotel could be sued, big time, if that were to happen, which is why the cards have nothing on them, but an unlock code.
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by Anonymous on June 19th, 2009
thanks - expert enough for me
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by Doyler - you have got to be kidding me! on June 19th, 2009
Also, there really isn't enough room on the magnetic strip, for all the information that would be needed, to violate the trust of a guest.
No hotel wants to be found guilty of that, believe me, or they would lose ALL of their future business, once the news leaked out that they had done that.
Please go to this link:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
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by Anonymous on June 19th, 2009

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