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Remnants of Hotel WiFi Week: A Shout-Out to Motel 6
5/12/2008 at 2:30 PM
Tags: Hotel WiFi Week 2008, Best Hotel WiFi 2008, Hotel WiFi, Motel 6
We shoved Hotel WiFi Week 2008 in your face everyday last week and it's not quite over yet. We still have a major Hotel WiFi map to unveil, it's just taking some time to get it perfect.
But until that's done we want to give a shout-out to Motel 6 Hotels for offering up WiFi. Andrew Calvo lauded the budget chain for its always reliable WiFi and yesterday we received an email from a serious road warrior who gave big-ups to Motel 6.
Keep reading for the full letter.
Les writes:
Being a one man business who travels yearly from SoCal to the NY City area, from Central Florida to Seattle and 20 other spots between, I pay my own expenses and generally use a motel for less than 10 per day.
I have found many times that the Motel 6 chain's newer stores have had the best "bang for the buck" for those not interested in impressing others with a name.
All of that said, the chain has added WiFi in most of their locations in the past few months. I have had great results with their wireless, often transferring gigs of files (high resolution photography) without any problem.
While the "company stores" charge $2.99 for 24 hours of access (beginning with your first log on), I have yet to find a franchise Motel 6 that charges for WiFi service.
Motel 6, which is owned by Accor Hotels who also run Novotels and Sofitels here in North America, has just unveiled a new room prototype called the Phoenix which makes the brand and its free WiFi a lot more appealing. Will we be logging in next time from a Motel 6 on one of our many adventures? It's looking likely.
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