Few people have a good word for hotel wifi systems. They are either fiendishly complicated to access, thanks to hoteliers’ fretting over losing a megabyte of data to non guests, or they plain just don’t work.
This weekend I am staying in an hotel in central Aarhus during the 50th city festival, a photo assignment for MacFilos. This place has perhaps the best hotel wifi I have experienced anywhere in the world. It is free, of course, but unusually there are no passwords, no silly time-limited chitties to obtain from reception. It’s just like being at home and the signal is loud and clear, at least in my room.
Why cannot all hotels just accept that wifi is nowadays essential and that it should be free, as easy to access and as reliable as hot and cold water.? We have a long way to go until this principle is universally accepted, but Aarhus is showing the way. Â
In total agreement with you on this Mike .I have stayed in so many hotels this year with complex systems and in some cases ridiculous charges and in the case of a top hotel in Munich of all places no wifi at all .In past week have stayed at Hilton in Darwin Australia which has what must be the highest priced wifi in the world .Shame on you Hilton.
And I am typing this on the balcony of my room at the Cable Beach Club in Broome Western Australia which as well as being a fantastic resort in a stunning location has totally free unlimited wifi without any passwords and logon procedures just like your hotel in Aarhus.Which is how it should be .