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Park Inn London Charges £15 for WiFi

Where: 92 Southampton Row, London, United Kingdom, WC1B 4BH

Perhaps we have been spoiled by the mid-market hotel WiFi situations over here in the United States. See, when we score a room in a mid-priced chain hotel where the rates run in the $100 neighborhood, we've come to expect free WiFi to be thrown into the deal.

This isn't really an unfair expectation: after doing our Annual WiFi Report for several years now, we've found the most exorbitant WiFi charges to come at us from the luxe chains, while many of the mid-market brands 'round these parts let us climb onto the Internet for free.

And so naturally, we were stunned to see that the newly revamped Park Inn London, Russell Square (whose rooms start at a totally decent 69 GBP, or about $97 USD) charges these sorts of prices for WiFi.

This screenshot comes to us via Flickr user sofiaGK, who noted that the "charges seem a bit excessive" — and, um, we have to agree.

The hotel claims to be "celebrating functionality and fun" — and 15 GBP for 24 hours of WiFi is neither functional nor fun.

[Photo: sofiagk]