
By Will Sturgeon
Published: Tuesday 30 January 2007
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Name
Mark Hosey
Location
West Central Scotland
Occupation
R&D
Comment
Sorry guys, I can't sign your petition.
I'll accept that a number of hotels are overcharging but if you don't like it don't stay there! Hotels offer a number of "pay for" service which require their time to administer and hardware to pay for. I don't think it's unfair to charge a fair price for this additional service which not all patrons will use. For this reason I would not like to see the standard rate of a hotel room rise across the board just so a few well paid self centred meanies can log on for free. Anyway, if business users really need access put the cost on your expense account and get your company to pay the bill.
If however you believe there is some sort of collusion in price fixing that's another matter that should be dealt with by the appropriate authorities.
The only way to lower these high charges is to vot...
Ralph Pruitt
Sorry guys, I can't sign your petition.
I'll acce...
Mark Hosey
I travel a lot internationally, and the differenc...
Anonymous
Oh the 'Need' for information.
How about this f...
Anonymous
One factor I don't recall having been discussed is...
Simon
Until the situation improves, you can check out th...
Rory Choudhuri
One other trick hotels would like to play in this ...
Bob Watt
Having spent 6 months travelling around most of Eu...
Anonymous
Market Forces will sort this out
As others have...
Ian Savell
Couple of points.
The hotel chain Malmaison do no...
Leslie Stump
The figures quoted for some hotels seem cheap when...
Colin OKeefe
There are costs to the Hotelier, who owns & operat...
Anonymous
Magnificent, but pointless. Get real Ed.
Wi Fi ...
Brian Catt
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