http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-08-21T21:08:04Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/WiFi%20Hell http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/29/11523/1875 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/colosowifihell.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We're working out of Madrid today, staying at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/El+Coloso/ian/118328"><b>Hotel El Coloso</b></a>. We're a bit hard-pressed to say anything good or bad about the room, the service or the location, mostly because we're so floored by the <b>WiFi Fee: 17 euros, or $26, for 24-hours worth of access. </b><p> That's only if you want to surf the Internet and instant message people ("OMFG srsly? $26 for IM??!!?" is how we imagine those real-time chats will go.) But if you want to branch out and go wild with e-mail attachments, downloading files and opening a VPN? Well, that will cost you 22 euro ($34) for a mere 24 hours worth of surf time. Plus, this is a ticking jennm 2008-05-29T12:44:35-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/6/104435/5566 <![CDATA[<p><b>A HotelChatter Exclusive</b><p> <img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/bad_wifi.jpg"><p>Yesterday we told you where you can get <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/5/113450/4230/hotels/Best_WiFi_Hotels_2008">working WiFi in hotels for free</a> so today we must tell you about the hotels where the WiFi is definitely not free, possibly not working and perhaps is not even WiFi.<p>Yes, it's time for the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Worst%20WiFi%20Hotels%202008"><b>Worst WiFi Hotels of 2008. </b></a> Much like our Best WiFi Hotels list, the Worst rounds up the usual suspects who charge you for internet access as well as calls out a few other hotel brands that manage to fly under our radar in other years.<p>These hotels also make this list for other reasons beyond billing. Inconsistent WiFi policies across different properties and brands is irksome, meaning you will get HotelChatter 2008-05-06T15:21:47-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/12/103858/797 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3930/danubius_wifi.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>Earlier this week we popped into an Atlanta Bread Company outlet for a quick lunch in Nashville, TN. The staff greeting was warm, the food was tasty, and signs prominently pointed out a nice feature: free WiFi. <p>Three people were pecking away on their laptops and the one sitting closest to us was staying at the nearby <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Loews+Vanderbilt+Hotel/ian/122733"><b>Loews Vanderbilt Plaza</b></a>. "Here I buy a $7 lunch and check e-mail for free," the chatty business traveler noted. "If I log in at my hotel, where I'm already paying $230 a night to rent a room, they want me to cough up another $10 plus tax. It's insane." <p> <p>Which brings us to this pair of screenshots we Tim L. 2008-03-12T11:11:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/4/163953/6574 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/plazalogo.png" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Plaza/ian/105314"><b>The Plaza</b></a> has reopened and everyone is just wetting their pants over the fact that it's open again. Well, except the people who bought the apartments in there because it's apparently <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2008/02/28/lonely_plaza_hotel_now_proven_to_be_harmful_perhaps_deadly.php">pretty empty</a> on those floors.<p>And while many tourists want to check out the new digs, not everyone is going to be able to afford it. So they will have to settle for skulking around the public areas---something we will probably be doing pretty soon.<p>Anyways, what pulls at our chain (pardon our grandma's favorite expression) is this bit from a Cornell Hotel School university professor:<blockquote><p> "When you hear $1,000 a night for a room it might seem like a lot, but in the end it's juliana 2008-03-04T16:56:12-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/13/174455/03 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/DEN_firewall.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>&#183; <b>Britney Spears</b>: Can she just give up her parental rights now? The trainwreck claimed to be too sick for a deposition in a child custody case but <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/13/sick-britney-rolls-till-2am/">went out later that night</a> to the <b>Four Seasons</b>.<p>&#183; <b>Hotel WiFi Hell</b>: Brother site <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/12/13/124716/98/travel/Denver+Airport%2C+Hotels+Censoring+the+Web"><b>Jaunted</b></a> reports that the DIA airport blocks some websites and even more shockingly, HotelChatter is a blocked site at some Drury and Comfort Inns. Whatever, our Trapper Keeper is cooler than yours.<p>&#183; <b>Airport Hotels</b>: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22220098/">Forbes</a> has put together a list of the world's best. Not on the list? <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/yotels"><b>Yotels</b></a>.<p>&#183; <b>Hotel Sick</b>: You probably shouldn't drink from those <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/12/11/beware-about-drinking-out-of-your-hotel-room-glasses.aspx">hotel room glasses.</a> <p>&#183; <b>Underwater Hotels</b>: We still don't believe any of these pbb 2007-12-13T17:46:05-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/