Ever check into a hotel and get extremely bored? Well that’s likely to happen, perhaps you might want to remedy that by watching a bit of TV. What if there’s nothing interesting on? Perhaps you may want to fire up Netflix and catch up on the shows you’re following. You can’t do that on the hotel room’s big screen TV though so you have to bust out your tablet or laptop, but where’s the fun in that? Marriott understands that which is why it has inked a new partnership which brings Netflix to guest room TVs.
The partnership between Marriott and Netflix will allow guests staying at select Marriott properties throughout the United States to subscribe to or simply sign into their existing Netflix accounts through the app that’s already installed on the property’s internet-connected guest room TVs.
This deal makes Marriott Hotels the first hotel brand that’s authorized to offer guests direct access to their Netflix accounts as part and parcel of its guest room entertainment facilities.
Marriott has designed an adapted version of the Netflix app for guest room TVs, guests who are staying multiple days only have to login to their accounts once during the stay. When they checkout all information will automatically be wiped from the TVs.
Currently there are six supported properties, the East Side New York Marriott, San Jose, Princeton and Newport Marriott, Dallas/Fort Worth Marriott Solana and Bethesda Marriott Suites.
An additional six properties will be added to the lineup this summer, the hotel chain aims to expand Netflix to 100 properties throughout the U.S. by the end of this year, and to almost all of its over 300 properties in the country by the end of 2016.
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