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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 8:41 am
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Originally Posted by USirritated
I was just at the Renaissance Blackstone in Chicago, and the HSIA was so slow there, it felt like opening simple webpages regularly took more than 5 minutes (an overstatement, but they did take about 3 minutes). It was probably the slowest HSIA I have encountered at any MI hotel in 3 years or more. I asked about it when I checked out, and the FDC did say that management was aware of it, and was planning on fixing the problem, EVENTUALLY. When I went to print my boarding pass, the BP terminal kept locking up, so after three tries I went to the business center, where it took literally 10 minutes to print my BP's.
Have to agree that would be frustrating. Not relevant to re-authorization (unless you were in the middle of downloading something , but definitely a PITA!

FWIW given the exec lounge isn't open on the weekend, if the i-net is that slow I'd drop them from my list & pick one of the other Chicago properties if rates were similar.

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