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You May Feel Spinny At The Bar At Budapest's Zara Continental, But It Won't Be The Booze

Where: Dohány utca 42-44, Budapest, Hungary, 1074

Not bad for a hotel bar, right? Especially a hotel that cost you less than $100?

But yes, this is the Zara Continental Hotel in Budapest that we spent the weekend at for the princely sum of $65 per room, per night, thanks to a slamming deal on Jetsetter.com. The hotel is set in a former bath house - so there's Art Deco decoration on the outside, a huge fancy revolving door, and this stunning, also Art Deco, lobby.

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How Much Longer Can Hotels Charge for WiFi?

Earlier this week we popped into an Atlanta Bread Company outlet for a quick lunch in Nashville, TN. The staff greeting was warm, the food was tasty, and signs prominently pointed out a nice feature: free WiFi.

Three people were pecking away on their laptops and the one sitting closest to us was staying at the nearby Loews Vanderbilt Plaza. "Here I buy a $7 lunch and check e-mail for free," the chatty business traveler noted. "If I log in at my hotel, where I'm already paying $230 a night to rent a room, they want me to cough up another $10 plus tax. It's insane."

Which brings us to this pair of screenshots we grabbed while staying at the Danubius Hotel Astoria in Budapest, Hungary. Here they actually rub it in your face that you have to pay more for the exact same service when you are at a fancier hotel.

It's about $23 for 24 hours if you're in one of their 3- or 4-star hotels--already a princely sum--but a jaw-dropping $45 if you staying in a 5-star hotel instead. For the exact same connection through the exact same 3rd-party service. That's a lot of goulash!

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