Comments on: The Art and Science of Hotel Internet Access

By: country hotel spain

country hotel spain — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:10:51 +0000

yeah.. only the higher end hotels charge for the wifi.. just now i read about a hotel in fransisco.. only $89 and they give a free wifi..

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Adjunct Advice » Blog Archive » Internet Access at Hotels — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:34:26 +0000

[...] be provided as a courtesy instead of at a price. But that’s me. Fortunately, Tom Belden has a useful piece on the art and science of internet access at hotels over at Web Worker Daily. Before you attend another conference, you might want to read [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:30:12 +0000

… and if you don’t travel often enough to warrant going on a wireless card plan there are prepaid-tarifs for $ 2/day (1GB max volume).

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:26:53 +0000

One answer:

UMTS (3G Cell Phone Access) up to 7.2 Mbit/s speed.

But I’am in Germany…
In Europe you can get flatrate-contracts for $ 25 per month and nationwide coverage.

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Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:12:56 +0000

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By: BabySnakes

BabySnakes — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:17:04 +0000

Just don’t stay at hotels that don’t offer free wifi, and when they do charge complain like hell. All these hotels have feedback forms for this purpose. Write a complaint to the hotel group manager. I did this with the Pan Pacific Kuala Lumpur Int airport recently and got a most apologetic response. Also give the hotel a bad review for its ripoff wifi prices on the numerous hotel review sites. The top end hotel market is struggling in the recession. They are very sensitive to criticism. One bad review can lose them hundreds of customers. Most major cities in the world have excellent five star boutique hotels with free wifi. Use them. Some are amazing stays. Its mostly the big chains or hotels in monopoly markets like airports that extort wifi charges from their customers.

By: Adwait Ullal

Adwait Ullal — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:52:18 +0000

You ought to look at Hilton Garden Inn hotels too for free Internet/WiFi, same configuration as Hampton Inn but a bit more upscale

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:19:13 +0000

If you really want to make your life as a wireless-dependent hotel guest easier I’ll offer a suggestion and a half:
1. Learn where your wireless enable/disable switch is
1.5 if you have a Dell learn how to use whichever of their 5 versions of wireless management software you have

We get calls from 1.5% of the guests that connect at the hotels we support and those two issues account for half the calls. We’re always patient about it, but some guests are furious about the network not working by the time they call to get help with a simple oversight.

By: COD

COD — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:02:27 +0000

The high end chains often do have an open wifi connection that is available from the lobby while they are charging you $10 a day for access in your room.

By: jonpeltier

jonpeltier — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:59:54 +0000

With a few exceptions, my experience has been that the higher end hotels are the ones that charge for internet, while the cheapo places give it away.

By: Stephanie M. Cockerl

Stephanie M. Cockerl — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:49:36 +0000

I don’t travel often enough to warrant going on a wireless card plan.

When I travel out of town, I always have a client who needs something to be done, even though I am 1500 miles away from home base. Most of them don’t mind me passing on the hotel internet access fee to them.