The California Grille

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The California Grille, originally uploaded by qwrrty.

Waiting for the fireworks.

The Mouse charges $10 a day for Internet access (whiskey tango foxtrot, over) and while that's, like, the least of our expenses it pisses me off. So we may be off net this week after all, boo hoo. Look! People having fun! Kiss kiss.

Comments

[alanj]

I'm more surprised when I stay in a place that *doesn't* charge $10/day for Internet access. Weirdly it tends to be the cheap places that offer net for free - Motel 6, for instance - whereas expensive places are more likely to charge.

Of course, most of my experience in non-cheapass hotels is in casino resorts, and they have their own reasons for wanting to discourage Internet usage - if you're websurfing, you're not gambling. So perhaps this is not representative of hotels in general.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Exactly that, yeah.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Where are you staying?

[harimad.livejournal.com]

I recently stayed in a hotel that had free wireless, but their subcontracted biz center vendor charged for wired access. Grumph.

[penk.livejournal.com]

It's changing - it used to be no wireless, then wireless for ${ridiculoussums}, now it's "some are free, some charge" - but the cahrging ones are losing ground steadily.

Then again, the 'specialty' environs, like the happiest place on earth, have a hook. It's not like you can go "No wireless? Fine! I'll go to, um, bob's amusement park! they're just as good!"

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I suppose that a deluxe resort is expensive because there is some particular draw to staying there, so if you're headed for the spendy hotel in the first place, you're unlikely to choose for or against it based on whether you get free Internet, as you might with Motel 6.

Or, equivalently, as shayde pointed out, we're staying here because it's five minutes from Wallyworld. We don't have a lot of incentive to switch to a hotel that's half an hour away because we can't get a 'net fix.