Me!!!

Well, I tried. But I found that I couldn't, exactly for this reason, because it asked for a login.

So I drove on to a Holiday Inn, and there I got in no problem.

And then on another occasion, did the same at another Holiday Inn.

Now, "sit" implies long continuous access. This isn't what I was doing. I was on a long drive, and a radio station had not announced a song I want to get the title of, and it had a website that listed the last few songs played, but that would have scrolled off by the time I got to someplace I had official internet access. So I pulled off the freeway and tried a hotel parking lot for that quick minute-or-two access. And thus the story above. (And then it happened again another night, and by then I knew to try directly for a Holiday Inn.)

But I'm not sure what harm a couple-minute access by someone pulling off the freeway to quickly check something hurts. (And until WiMax comes along, assuming I don't want to pay $60+ a month for a cell modem which I would otherwise hardly ever use, what other options are there, other than going into a residential neighborhood and trying to sniff an open connection there, which is even more iffy.)

... On the other hand, I do find it annoying for the customer at some hotels where you have to login. For example, at HGI Anaheim/Garden Grove, they have an alphanumeric login code that changes monthly. Once I stayed there arriving the 31st and checking out the 1st, and they only gave me one code, and I didn't think anything of it, and it worked in the evening but not in the morning. I had to call down to get them to dictate me the new code. And at that hotel they routinely forget to give you the code if you don't ask for it.