Comments on: Going online in hotels

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:47:41 +0000

Internet Access should be a drawning card for hotels , like Pools Saunas, Cont. Breakfast ETC. If a Hotel or Motel does any kind of business at all, adding .25 or .50 per room rate would more than pay for installation costs , upkeep, and thier ISP monthly Fees. If you want to use Internet Access and feel you shouldn’t have to pay for it DON’T stay at the hotels that charge for it. As in another post making $3.99 sound not so bad. Lets use this IE. Travelers for a month staying 20 nights at different hotels. Lets see now , 20 x $3.99 plus tax of course @ average 8% = $ 4.31 x 20 nights = $ 86.20. Now that would likely be reading one e-mail from family and possibly sending one back per day. Thats $2.87 per e-mail. and approx. 15 minutes on line for the average person that is travelling. Add in the fact that you pay will pay to get on line and there is no mail for you. Sounds really expensive to me. I look for good hotels that offer free on-line service , as part of thier over-all service.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:48:27 +0000

High-speed internet access is important to large percentage of travellers these days – especially business travellers. The availability and cost of the internet service is one of the first things we check in making any hotel reservation. It’s not just for email and VPN access to files at the office, but we use Skype to bypass those ridiculous long-distance telephone calling fees and access charges at high-end hotels. There’s nothing sillier than having to sit in the lobby or the parking lot of an expensive 5-star hotel to pick up your email because the in-room internet access is either grossly overpriced or temporarily out of service because the hotel doesn’t consider it important.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:46:14 +0000

I work at a hotel where it’s only $3.99 for your whole stay. You can be there a day , a month or longer and it’s still only $3.99. So a word to the wise, check around, because there are hotels that don’t rip you off for internet access.
Robyn

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:45:19 +0000

I work at a hotel where it’s only $3.99 for your whle stay. You can be there a day , a month or longer and it’s still only $3.99. So a word to the wise, check around, because there are hotels that don’t rip you off for internet access.
Robyn