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Another option: refuse to stay at Marriott-owned hotels. There are lots of other awesome hotels out there, and a lot are cheaper and/or nicer than Marriott brands.

They're not exactly the best company out there to be supporting.

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I'm all for voting with our wallets. Just about the first thing I want to know about a hotel is if it has good wifi. If it doesn't, sorry, I'm checking out. This is especially important on a business trip. I want the wifi to be ubiquitous and built-in to the room charge. If you charge separately for wifi, or if you meter the wifi, you are doing it wrong. You're also pushing people to use their personal wifi. There is no aspect of this that the hotels are going to win until they start taking customer service for tech people seriously.

EDIT: Actually, not only tech people. Normal people probably hate this stuff, too.

Then you'll have to refuse to stay at Hilton hotels too: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001005951 .

Cisco, Aruba, Ruckus, Smart City, the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee have similarly come out in favor of allowing wireless operators to attack other wireless operators.

Interestingly, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association filed in opposition to the petition, with a rather strongly worded filing.

It's not surprising to me that Cisco would weigh in in favor of this being allowed, since managing "rogue" APs is one of the features they advertise on some of their enterprise stuff.

In my opinion Hilton is just about the worst hotel brand out there. I actively refuse to stay there at any opportunity. They wanted to charge me 10 euros to use the gym when I stayed in one recently (this was a discounted rate as well because I'm a member of Hilton Honours), regular price for guests was 20 euros. For one use of the gym!! That's not far off what I pay for a month of 24/7 gym access at home.

Wifi was 25eu a day. A small bottle of water from the mini bar was 8 euros, a small coke 12 euros. A pretty average chicken ceasar salad from the restaurant was 35 euros. It's just crazy when you/your company are already paying 350 euros a night for a room.

Having stayed at he Marriott, for business, around the country I can tell you that their internet is crap. I end up using my own hotspot at many of their locations. If they want to prevent me from doing so, they can take their mid-tier, over priced hotels and sell it to someone else.

I've spent over 70 nights at the Marriott and this will make me stop immediately. There are a lot of other options around with similar reward benefits when booked through hotels.com

Will keep in mind to stay away from Marriot hotels.

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