businesstraveler

I'm doing research on high speed internet access in hotel rooms.

Business travelers:

- Do most hotels you stay at have it? Where & How much did they charge?
- Do you ask for it when you make reservations?
- Have you used high speed internet access in hotel business centers? Where and how much do they charge?
- Have you gone to off site locations to get high speed access? If so, where and how much did they charge?

You may also email me directly with comments at [email protected]. Thanks

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Michael Steinberg
Editor
Business-Trip.com
www.business-trip.com

[This message has been edited by businesstraveler (edited 08-20-2001).]

UAL Traveler

businesstraveler, welcome to FT As I'm sure that you have already seen, a lot of us really crank out the business miles. Most of my travel is internation between the US and Asia, and most of the rest is intra-Asia. What remains is Asian domestic (mainly China, Japan, Korea and Thailand) and some Asia-Europe and US-Europe. I try to avoid US domestic like the plague, and will use workarounds like tele/video-cons, sending surrogates, etc.

To answer your questions:

• Do most hotels you stay at have it? Where & How much did they charge? No. I tend to stay in a number of east-Asian hotels that advertise high-speed connections, but tend to offer common dial-up (maybe 40-50kbps if lucky).
• Do you ask for it when you make reservations? No.
• Have you used high speed internet access in hotel business centers? Where and how much do they charge? No.
• Have you gone to off site locations to get high speed access? If so, where and how much did they charge? Yes, but it is my business facilities in east/southeast Asia and not available to the public.

FWIW, although IMO you posted your question in the correct forum, you will get few responses here as this well of the beaten FT path. I'm not sure what to suggest as an alternate though (TravelBuzz! perhaps?) as FT management has recently clamped down very hard on so-called off-topic topics.

TropicalFlyer

I've found high speed internet access at most Hiltons and W hotels. Westins, Sheratons and Doubletree are hit and miss (more likely a hit in big cities). It is usually $9.95 for a 24 hour period which runs from noon to noon the next day. I was surprised to find that the connection was free at the Sheraton Clearwater Beach, FL.

No, it's just in the room.

I'ved used computers with high speed internet access in business centers, but have not hooked up my laptop to one. It was about $15 per half hour for the internet access.

Rented at Kinko's once. It was about $15-20 per hour I think.

[This message has been edited by TropicalFlyer (edited 08-21-2001).]