Best Hotel WiFi Spot: Sunset Tower Hotel

by juliana | April 24, 2007 at 9:05 AM | 0 Comments

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 Sure there are a bunch of hotel WiFi lists out there, but they are quickly out of date and unreliable.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.

Jeff Klein's West Coast Hotel, the Sunset Tower, is our pick for Los Angeles for several reasons. The first being that it's the one hip hotel on Sunset where the WiFi is actually free. The Riot Hyatt, the Standard, the Chateau Marmont and the Mondrian all charge at least $10 a day. The Best Western next door is free but c'mon it's a Best Western.

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Actually, there are very few cool hotels in LA where you can get free WiFi. The Hotel Angeleno stepped up to the plate when it opened last year but its location next to the 405 freeway is less than desirable. And the Hollywood Roosevelt reportedly has good free WiFi. Yet we like the low-key vibe at Sunset Tower the best. You can log on (free of codes or a pesky sign-in page) and peruse your favorite gossip sites while checking out Jennifer Aniston or Renee Zellweger on a date in the hotel's restaurant. Also, when we checked out the WiFi situation the staff was knowledgeable and friendly, offering to print out anything we needed.

Now if only Klein could branch out past the Sunset Tower and its New York sister, City Club.

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