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Best Hotel WiFi Spot: W Union Square

Where: 201 Park Avenue South [map], New York, ny, United States, 10003

These days everyone is looking for four bar, non-complicated, hotel WiFi when they check in. Sure there are a bunch of hotel WiFi lists out there, but they are quickly out of date and unreliable. This week, as a lead up to our popular annual hotel WiFi report, we will let you know our favorite WiFi hotels in five hot travel destinations. The rules are simple. The signal has to fast, and reliable, the cost should be free (at the very least free for guests) and the WiFi experience at these hotels offer a comfortable surfing environment. Have a city or destination you want us to investigate? Let us know. And if you have a favorite WiFi hotel you are willing to share, no matter where it is send it our way.

W Union Square:: New York City, NY

Bravo W Hotels it took you a couple years, but it looks like you got hotel wireless right, eventually. We remember a time when you wanted us to call your lobbies living rooms and we scoffed. Well guess what? We get it now. W Union Square might just be the perfect wireless lobby. The four bar signal is strong, there are no sign up screens, and there are just enough chairs and tables for a limited amount of people to quickly work in a virtual way. The best part? Because of the set up there is a constantly shifting cast of hard working characters in the lobby living room and no one is abusing the system.

Best Part:
This hotel has the perfect layout for free WiFi. There are two lobbies (sort of), separated by stairs, and the downstairs lobby lends itself perfectly to business wireless activity. Sales pitches, job interviews, and venture capital meetings all happened while we were getting some work done in this made-for-free WiFi lobby. Oh, and coffee is served from a nearby bar.

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