I agree with Muirford...check to see if they provide the ethernet cable in the room just to be sure. I always bring a short one with me in my laptop bag just in case if there's only wired Internet access. (Some of the provided cables have been shoddy.)
It could be worse - I've seen up to $25/day for Internet alone. Do you get free parking? The charge for that when we stayed at a downtown hotel in Northern CA last fall was very high. :-(.
Here's the weirdness...I tried to make the rez last night and the online rez system kept hanging up on the last screen. All my info filled in and it wouldn't go thru. So I called. Had to wait in queue. The room I wanted was not available there but it was online. Gave up. Tried another computer and got a pop up that said the rez system was undergoing maintenance. Great. Now I don't know how many reservations I have!
Did not see anything about parking but my parents said there's no charge at that hotel. (You think I'M cheap, you ought to travel with them!)
I did ask at the other hotel and everything is included in the price of the room. Breakfast, parking, WiFi, wine & cheese in the evening. Thank goodness for that. The Vegas hotel is $25/day but I can probably put some snacks away for later on.
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Can you even imagine what any of OUR guests would say if we tried to bring in these charges?!!!!
Hotels charging for internet access drives me nuts - also have never understood the logic of it being free at Travelodge/Quality Inn/Holiday Inn etc type places, but if you stay somewhere swanky and expensive you have to cough up for it.
Surely the more you pay for loveliness, the more amenities should be included.
Having said that, if we do stay somewhere which charges we just whine quietly to ourselves and pony up - while inwardly being jealous of all those we know who get it taken off their bill for whining loudly and publicly at check-out...
We'd just rather pay than go through the embarrassment of moaning - and also it would be a tad hypocritical to moan ourselves when we do enough moaning about our moaners!
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Re "moaning" I disagree. It is not moaning to dispute an unfair charge. While staying at a Mar ri *** a couple years ago, my City Manager and I discovered a chips bag behind the nightstand. She left housekeeping a note that it ws there and we went to our meetings. Return that afternoon and it was still there. She is not someone who will say something and was a bit twicked with me because I went to the Manager on Duty and told him about the chips bag. I was not asking for anything - just pointing out it was STILL there after leaving a note. he said he would comp the internet charge (I did remark about how a B & B is expected to have free wifi but a big hotel gets away with charging for it) and gave us a free dinner (which I was not expecting nor asking for - it was a good dinner though) and that night - the bag is still there. At check-out, Miss Do-not-complain looks over the bill and hits the roof - bag still behind the nightstand, internet charges are still on the bill. She ended up with the Internet AND parking fees removed. She would have said nothing except he had told us the Internet charge would be removed - AND after writing a note AND telling a MANAGER it STILL was not remedied.
It is not moaning to know what we are expected to give for free and inform the big boys it is outrageous for them to charge for it.
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You make a separate point.
I was saying that if I've chosen to stay at a hotel which charges for Internet access, then I have booked knowing that, and I think it would be unreasonable of me to complain to the front desk about that charge and try to get it removed - no matter how much I object to the principle. In making the reservation that is the deal I have knowingly signed up to.
If there are other problems (bad housekeeping etc) and management comp your Internet as part of compensation for those things then that is a different thing.
Anyway, back on topic - hotels charging for internet always leave me feeling a bit ripped off but am staying at one next week because LOVE the hotel, so choosing to just suck it up.
But a hotel saying your amenities are free once you've paid for them is a whole new level of ludicrousness!
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