Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park: £15 for 24 hours, £75 for 7 days Posing as a potential customer silicon.com contacted 20 of the capital's top hotels and found a range of charges, from free wi-fi access for guests at the £265 per night Draycott Hotel...
Mike O'Mahoney, finance and commercial director of Queens Moat Houses, said in a statement: “Wireless is the next generation communication media for high speed access to information, and working with Swisscom provides this service for our guests.
Hotel managers take note: your customers are growing frustrated at the charges imposed for using the internet while they are a paying guest in a hotel. According to a silicon.com poll more than half of respondents believe hotels must stop charging...
On the personalisation side, the service offers access to a guest's favourite newspaper websites in their own language and in page-layout, rather than web format, so guests can view pages as if they were reading the paper in their lap.
That is a contended connection, meaning a guest would have to be online alone at a given point in time to get that full fat pipe bit rate, and it does come at a hefty £20 per 24-hour connection block, but the upmarket hotel says that the speed for...
In fact the hotel is still breaking even if only one guest goes online for an hour. While all these factors contribute towards relatively high set-up costs, they only begin to explain the charges hotel guests must pay.