DVDs in hotel rooms?

[n2dzny]

I am traveling solo for my job & as I'm packing I'm thinking that I can take some DVDs to catch up on. I called the hotel directly but didn't get an answer. My question: do hotels have DVD players they can lend to guest??

TIA

 

[fly girl]

To my knowledge, most of them don't. They want you to buy movies on their TV.

Can you watch them on your laptop?

 

[Lynne M]

As far as I know, only the DVC rooms/villas and the suites have DVD players. The resorts don't have players to lend out.

Oh....duh...here I am thinking you're talking about Disney resorts, and we're on the Community board. You mean hotels in general, right?

It really depends on the hotel, but I don't think they're very common. As fly girl says, they want you to buy the pay-per-view movies.

 

[ICF]

I don't think I've seen it before -- I've always used my laptop for that, when travelling for work.

 

[kimblebee]

I'm sure you could pick up a portable DVD player relatively cheap from any big box store.

 

[Clifton Tesh]

I've stayed in some that do and some that don't. I've stayed in some that have hook ups on the television for your dvd player and then others that have custom televisions with no media input except the coax cable.

 

[scrapquitler]

I am traveling solo for my job & as I'm packing I'm thinking that I can take some DVDs to catch up on. I called the hotel directly but didn't get an answer. My question: do hotels have DVD players they can lend to guest??

TIA

Most updated hotels have the slots in the tv where you can plug in a thumb drive, Fire Stick or Chrome Cast, which will allow you to skip lugging the DVDs with you. My husband just brings his thumb drive and we have more movie options than we could ever hope to watch on our vacation.

Some hotels do have DVD players in the rooms. I would think that the clerk answering the phone in the hotel you are visiting would be able to answer that question, but I've been losing my faith in humanity in the last few years, so they might not be very helpful.

 

[MillauFr]

I have several on my laptop hard drive. I just bring a HDMI cable to connect my laptop to the TV.

 

[svecchitto]

Not totally sure but as someone else said we bring an hdmi cable and hook up our laptop

 

[n2dzny]

OP here. Thanks for the replies.

Watching on my laptop isn't an option but the suggestion of getting a personal DVD player reminded me that we have one & I will just take that.

I have stayed in plenty of hotels but I have never wanted to watch a movie.

 

[barkley]

call the individual hotels. we've stayed at some with players in every room that houses a tv, some have them only upon request from the front desk (this was the set up at the holiday inn express we stayed in recently).