NEW HOTEL HAS DEATH RAY

According to the U.K. Daily Mail, the powerful beams of Nevada sunlight reflecting off the Vdara hotel in Las Vegas onto sections of the hotel's swimming pool area have burned some guests and have melted plastic bags.

The building's concave design creates a sort of magnifying-glass effect. The hotel's designers reportedly anticipated that ill-situated humans might experience some discomfort courtesy of the building's blinding glare, so they placed a film over the glass panes of its many windows. Obviously that didn't quite do the trick. So for now the hotel is placing larger umbrellas in the pool area while designers try to come up with another remedy. Hey I guess you can go on vacation and com back worse than when you left.

-AL

STOLE A HOTEL TOWEL, THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT

Hotel guests have plenty of places to register their displeasure with a stay but now hotels and other resorts in the UK have their own recourse, a new database called GuestScan that launches this week. Around 10,000 hotels and B&Bs are expected to sign up to for the subscription-based database which will let hotels check out guests before they get to the hotel. The information in the database will show infractions like stealing towels, breaking things and general bad behavior. Businessman British businessman Neil Campbell came up with the idea after a friend who owned a B&B suffered a "visitor from hell". The service is launching in the UK and offenders can stay on the list for two to four years.
Man you can even steal towels anymore.

-AL