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Little Rock is WiFi Hotel Heaven?

While holed up at the Peabody Little Rock, we scooted out to a few other hotels in town to see how they stacked up. It's mostly a collection of chain hotels apart from the circa-1913 Legacy Hotel. (When it was built, rooms were $2 and meals were 50 cents--which shows how much cheaper food has gotten.)

One interesting trend stood out, however: nobody charges extra for Internet access. You would think a tech center like Austin or San Jose would manage this, but no, it's Little Rock Arkansas. We mentioned earlier that the best hotel in town--the Peabody--has free wired access in the rooms and free wireless in the lobby, with no annoying registration process. And you would expect to find free WiFi at the likes of Holiday Inn Select. What's impressive here is that you can also log in with no extra charges at the Doubletree Little Rock and the Hilton Little Rock. And yes, WiFi is gratis at the Legacy Hotel too (as is parking--a big plus).

Maybe none of these hotels will make a magazine "hot list" or win any design awards, but if you're traveling because you are on business, Little Rock gets a big thumbs up.

[photo Rod Murrow]

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Peabody Little Rock an Under-Achieving Little Brother

Where: Three Statehouse Plaza [map], Little Rock, AR, United States, 72201

[Ed. Note: Contributing editor Tim Leffel reports from Little Rock, Arkansas.]

When a group of eight travel writers arrives at a hotel together from the airport, with reservations, it's never a good sign when there's not a bellhop to be found. Not that the writers can't fend for themselves, of course, but you'd think a hotel hosting a whole crew of influencers would schedule an extra staffer or two to juice the first impression. But this is the Peabody Little Rock, not the storied Peabody in Memphis. It's the equivalent of the high school football captain's little brother, trying hard, but no hope of matching up.

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Clinton still throws the best parties

Forget those stuffed shirts up in DC and their overpriced inauguration packages, the real party is in Little Rock, AK!  Just four days until Bubba opens presidential library in Little Rock Arkansas, and local hotels are turning people away that don't have reservations. Yup, that's right, Little Rock is sold out.

Thirty thousand people are expected for the libraries open, and the hotel to stay at is the newly opened Courtyard Marriott, however, the 120 room Marriott, like other local hotels is fully booked.

We'll take Little Rock's Doritos and beer over DC's caviar and Cristal on this one, thank you very much.

Hotels have been referring people to the Clinton Library Foundation website room options.