Accordingly, More Accor Hotels Will Be Dropping WiFi Charges

August 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM | by ASchechter | Comments (0)

It looks like we're inching ever closer to the dream of free WiFi everywhere around the world, as Accor just announced it would be making the service free at 500 of its hotels. Now, this is both exciting and also not that big of a deal, since plenty of Accor hotels have already been doing this for a while now, and there's plenty more Accors to go.

After all, the company owns Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, Ibis and Motel 6�making up over 4,000 hotels worldwide. So...500? A drop in the bucket. But one we'll take gladly.

The Telegraph reports that "the French company made the announcement after a survey revealed that the availability of free wifi was a key factor when choosing a hotel for the majority of travelers." Well, duh!

Often costing up to �3.85 per hour, Accor hotels�in the UK have certainly been accustomed to taking a big bite out of people's wallets when it comes time to check out. But for many of us, using the hotel's wifi (whether we're paying for it or not) is often unavoidable due to work, urgent emails, and, ahem, Facebook.

Accor does also hint that in the somewhat near future, all Accor hotels will have free WiFi.

Hey Accor, maybe you can work on�making that happening sometime before the 2016 Olympics? With all those billions you're spending on new hotels over there, we think building free WiFi into the new properties would be an "expense" you'd be able to afford.

[Photo: Sofitel Heathrow]

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