Let's hope the rest of the hotel industry will follow Accor's lead: they're making wireless internet free at 500 hotels. (via @johnnyjet)

  • http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

    I’m reminded of the old adage:  “You can tell a pioneer because they are the ones with the arrows in their backs”.   Hopefully, this won’t happen to Accor…

  • LinkMan

    Admiral General Aladeen said it best (NSFW):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Iik-vHwPE#t=0m9s

  • Daneel

    About fucking time.

    Now they just need to offer a better newspaper than the Independent in the mornings.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    One of their brands, Sofitel, has feather beds and down comforters.  Possibly the only time that I’ve actually gotten more than a couple of hours sleep in a hotel bed.

  • http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop

    It pisses me off that the fancier hotels charge crazy amounts for shitty wifi, when cheaper places like Hampton Inn and even dirt-cheap Motel 6 offer decent wifi for free.

    Not every guest gets their tab paid for by their employer.

  • Thad

    It’s not generosity, it’s an exercise in costing, marketng and competitive advantage.

    It’s only as free as free sheets, free pillow, free room cleaning, and just as a hotel has to pay the costs of providing those facilities, so it has to pay the cost of providing wifi and the bandwidth that customers will use

    Nothing’s free … it’s costed in and included in the total that you pay.