Worst Hotel WiFi
Good hotel WiFi is the “new thing” wanted by most travelers these days, as laptops are becoming a very common travel accessory. The question for hotels has turned from “do you have internet access?” to “do you have a strong wifi signal?” Unfortunately, not all hotels have answered the call for quality, cheap wifi. Here are the worst Wifi Hotels.
Hotel Chatter has a list of the Worst hotel WiFi in 2007. Below are the wifi hotel losers of this year.
Kor Hotel Group
Eight different, confusing policies that vary on your hotel’s location add to the frustration of travelers who may end up with a WiFi bill for internet access that did not work for them.
Intercontinental Hotels
Inconsistent hotel policy puts Intercontinental hotels on the list. Depending on the hotel, wifi may be free, cost $15 a day, or cost up to $6 an hour. In room ethernet access is also sometimes an extra fee for hotel guests as well, which not many travelers would be very fond of for just checking some email.
Four Seasons Hotels
This famed luxury hotel chain is luxurious in every way except its internet and wifi policy. Depending on your city, WiFi for a day can cost anywhere between $10 and $30. In some cases, high speed ethernet access in your room will cost $10 alone.
Morgans Hotel Group
24 hour use of Morgans wifi will run you $10, which is a pretty ridiculous fee to pile on top of your hotel room which costs upwards of $225/night. How a $225 room charge doesn’t cover the costs of a network administrator is beyond me.
Marriott
The hotels that make up the Marriott brand, Residence Inn, Courtyard, and SpringHill Suites, are all notoriously good at offering strong, free WiFi. However, Marriott brand hotels are most of the time terrible, and/or spendy.
So in conclusion, why do hotels find it necessary to charge a fee for spotty internet access, if all it does is generate bad press? My willingness to pay $250 a night depreciates if the wireless network a) costs $15, and b) doesn’t work. Just stick with some quality, free wifi and travelers will appreciate it.
Be sure to check out the original hotel chatter article on the worst hotel wifi linked above.
Posted on June 12, 2007
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15$ a day for an InterContinental is cheap - I paid 45$ for 40 mins, granted, the rest of the 24hr cycle was free, but that is by far the most expansive wifi/ internet access I have ever seen.
To keep my Dubai rental car site updated I needed to go online to set up new deals and agencies but if you consider it's a hotel that boasts itself to cater to the intercontinental life, this is not really guest oriented behavior.