On short trips I am growing tired of hacking hotel phones and then worrying if the morning goes wrong that I will forget my tech which is hidden in the phone. I also run into some hotels where the cleaning staff uses the tv to mark a room as clean which means that all the settings are changed and which forces me to reset the tv in the morning and rehack it for a show or two at night. It is usually easier to just watch the show on my Surface or iPad. Over the summer, I am renting an apartment in London for ten days and that will be the exception, but my television hack kit had grown in size and was taking too much space. Most Marriots made it simple, but with Hilton properties where I am Diamond not so much. I have a Tmobile data SIM in my iPad and in the US I can just stream off that without using my datacap up.