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W Hotels Doing WiFi Right?

Where: 181 Third Street [map], San Francisco, ca, United States, 94103

November 10, 2006 at 1:59 PM | 3 Comments

The signal is free and strong here in the spacious, backless couch riddled lobby of W San Francisco. Of course, W more than likely still mindlessly charges for Internet access up in the guest rooms, but that isn't the point.

The point is, back in 2005 when we wanted free, reliable, comfortable, guilt-free WiFi we headed to the nearest Kimpton hotel. Now, we hear Kimpton is experimenting with some sort of pay-for-WiFi model in New York, and we headed elsewhere. Elsewhere is the W, where for the better part of 2006 all of you hotel mavens out there have been telling us the W hotels are offering free lobby WiFi--pretty much standard at all Ws.

We can now vouch for W SF, but what about the others? Is W lobby WiFi free elsewhere? Let us know in comments.

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