Many hotels and hotel chain holdouts believe that they can still charge up to $30 a day for wi-fi or internet access. These hotels are simply taking advantage of their guests and tacking on this exhorbitant fee with no real justification. The irony is that their "free breakfast" costs more than internet access and many guests will take the option of free internet over "free continental breakfast" or even "Full breakfast".
No question that some hotels have taken a page from airlines' strategy for nickeling and diming their ways into the guests' pocketbooks, while other savvy chains realize the advantage of providing a service that has become so essential to travelers. Free wi-fi has become an essential and deciding factor when choosing hotels.
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