http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-09T03:01:01Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Free%20Wifi%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/25/54244/3639 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Balmoral_Hotel_Barcelona_Spain.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>We picked up a rumor on German photographer <a href="http://blog.mareenfischinger.com/post/79180600/someone-take-away-the-free-wifi-in-my-hotel-room-or-i">Mareen Fischinger's blog</a> that the not-overly-spectacular <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Balmoral/ian/117969"><b>Balmoral Hotel</b></a> in Barcelona had free WiFi. Since this hotel has rooms going for about half the price of the last <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/19/7327/82395/hotels/Barcelona_s_Cristal_Palace_Only_Has_Good_WiFi_on_the_First_Night">Barcelona hotel we found WiFi at</a>, we thought we'd better check it out.<p>Search the <a href="http://www.hotelbalmoral.com/index.html">Balmoral Hotel website</a> as you will, the best we can find is a mention of modem connections in every room. Nothing about access, certainly no mention of WiFi, and no magic phrase "it's free" either. So we emailed them to check and guess what: <blockquote><p>We have wifi Internet in the whole hotel. It is free access for our guests.</blockquote><p>Woo-hoo! Barcelona rooms at &#128;60 ($75) amandak 2009-02-25T08:53:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/19/7327/82395 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/eurostars_Cristal_Palace_Barcelona.jpg" class="top"><p> <p>We're always heartened to hear of hotel WiFi that not only doesn't cost anything extra, but also actually works. As in, whenever you want, you can actually check your email--it's not a big ask these days.<p>So we started off quite pleased to read a <a href="http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/5173">NewsWireless</a> mention of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Cristal+Palace/ian/113190"><b>Eurostars Cristal Palace Hotel</b></a> in Barcelona. The reporter checked into the hotel, switched on his laptop and the WiFi "just worked right away". And it's free. All good so far.<p>But the next morning, despite changing nothing, the WiFi didn't work on that computer anymore--even though other people could log on. Not being able to discuss the problem well enough in Spanish, and with staff who couldn't deal amandak 2009-02-19T09:15:29-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/30/115132/741 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/le_chatelain_brussels.jpg"><p> <b>[Ed. Note: As we mentioned <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/26/152411/603/hotels/Conrad_Hotel_Guests_Drive_Lamborghinis_So_Top_That">earlier this week,</a> our publisher took a fancy European trip last week while we toughed it out in the wilds of Colorado with our laptop tied around our neck. Here is one of his reports from a Beligum hotel. Enjoy.</b>]<p>Our first night in Belgium we stayed in the "all suite" <a href="http://www.le-chatelain.net/anim3.html"><b>Hotel Le Chatelain</b></a> in the Ixelles area of Brussels. If you are dead set on being steps from the Grand Place touristgasm then you probably want to keep hotel hunting. However, Le Chatelain offers oversized rooms, flat screen televisions, and important European hotel features like enclosed showers (we hate when the water gets all over the floor thanks to a curtainless markj 2006-06-30T12:11:15-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/