The traveler’s lament: good web access in hotels
Steve Safran December 19th, 2006
Hoteliers: want to become an instant hit among business travelers? Offer free WiFi. Or, at least, make sure your in-room web connections work consistently well and can handle the modern broadband demands of video, voice, and big downloads. Before you know it, you’re going to lose out to mobile web access anyway. Might as well make this a perk.
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1. James Cridland | December 19th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Could I entirely agree with this?
Stay at the Hilton Hotel in Rome, and you are charged $35 a day for wifi. And guess what? First, it’s so slow to be unusable, and second, it’s capped to 400MB! Utter madness.
Or, stay at any Radisson SAS hotel in Europe, and you get free, fast, reliable wifi that goes like a rocket (and means you can sit on Skype all day getting work done).
Where do you think I’ll stay in future? I’ll give you a clue: it’s not the Hilton.
2. Frank Catalano | December 19th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
The Web discussion board FlyerTalk (www dot flyertalk dot com) has some great discussion threads on which hotels have free WiFi. For example, the Starwood forum has a complete list of Sheraton, Westin, Four Points and W hotels with free WiFi. Invaluable.
3. Liey | January 18th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Wow, thanks for the excellent information!
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