Google Wallet gained the ability to unlock hotel room doors at participating locations last year. With digital hotel room keys, you can use your phone to access hotel rooms and amenities, saving you ...

Many hotel chains are racing to replace the plastic room key with digital options, including Apple Wallet and Google Wallet apps. Plastic hotel key cards have had a rough few years. During the ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Club Quarters Hotels now support digital room keys in Google Wallet (and Apple Wallet). Google Wallet integration eliminates ...

The many experiences on smartphones are expanding yet again, particularly for devices with NFC components as Google Wallet's latest offers include support for hotel room keys from Club Quarters. This ...

Google Wallet supports hotel room keys and, soon, an entire chain of hotels from Club Quarters will be adding support for the needed tech. Announced in a press release, Club Quarters will be rolling ...

There is a new warning for travelers after researchers, posed as hackers, expose a security flaw that could open millions of hotel-room doors. The good news is, they're helping to fix the problem ...

Among all of the amazing things your smartphone can do for you, now it can also be used as your hotel room key—as long as you stay at a hotel part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, that is. The ...

Google Wallet has introduced support for hotel card keys. Unfortunately, hotels will have to work with Google to add support and so there’s virtually no options yet. The first hotel to offer the ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Digital hotel keys in Google Wallet work the same as RFID hotel room key cards and digital room key functionality offered by ...