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Xethos

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There is free Wi-Fi by me and it works great, I think there should be free wi-fi everywhere except within the parks themselves...so like the hotels, and all the grounds around.


I was just thinking it would be nice at the end of the day, if you had some work to take care of or check up on, to sit on the beach outside the Grand Floridian and be able to have a connection.
 
djpoore94

djpoore94

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Over the past few years I have traveled for work at stayed at Embassy Suites, Hilton, Hyatt, and Omni. None of them had free wired internet service, much less free WiFi. When traveling for vacation we've stayed at Comfort Inn, Fairfield Inn and Holiday Inn Express, all of them came with free WiFi in the room. It has been my experience that the more "upscale" the hotel, the less chance there is to get free WiFi.
 
Disaddict

Disaddict

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djpoore94 said:
Over the past few years I have traveled for work at stayed at Embassy Suites, Hilton, Hyatt, and Omni. None of them had free wired internet service, much less free WiFi. When traveling for vacation we've stayed at Comfort Inn, Fairfield Inn and Holiday Inn Express, all of them came with free WiFi in the room. It has been my experience that the more "upscale" the hotel, the less chance there is to get free WiFi.
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The Sealbach and the Hyatt near here in Louisville, KY has free Wifi. ;)
 
dreamfinder

dreamfinder

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You need to look at the markets that a hotel/resort is targeting. If they are targeted to the budget savvy vacationer, then yeah, they will have free WiFi. Why? Because if they don't, their competitor up the street does.
Locations that are targeted towards the business traveler, suddenly everything costs more. Breakfast is only included if you have some special deal, internet is normally not free. They give you a newspaper, but charge you the 50 cents a day as a line item on your bill. This is because they know the business will pay it. Travelers tend to not be as thrifty when they are traveling on someone else's dime.

Beyond the free/not free, WDW is a completely different beast than a single hotel. Figure your local Hampton Inn or whatnot has maybe 100-200 rooms in a single building. WDW has 1,920 rooms at ASMv alone. An old fact sheet from this site indicates 15,000+ WDW rooms, and that count doesn't include AKL, CS, ASMv, so figure at least 20,000. Staggered through a few hundred "buildings". (Splitting up the "t"s at the all stars into 3 "buildings") There is no central saturation point like there is in your typical hotel. The rooms are purposely spread out so they would need a much larger infrastructure.
 
ddrongowski

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I really do not care if wifi is available when I am at WDW. I am way to busy doing fun stuff at WDW, and do not have time for the internet. Could someone post reasons that WIFI when on vacation is such a necessity? Saying work is a reason is not a good one, since your on vacation.
 
Pioneer Hall

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ddrongowski said:
I really do not care if wifi is available when I am at WDW. I am way to busy doing fun stuff at WDW, and do not have time for the internet. Could someone posts reasons that WIFI when on vacation is such a necessity? Saying work is a reason is not a good one, since your on vacation.
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I used to find it more important to have internet when I didn't have a mini computer in my pocket via smart phone. Now I only use the room internet when I am using my points since it is free.

My dad has needed it from time to time to access his work computer to take care of things on programs. He owns his own business, so I can understand the need. But when those times come up he also doesn't mind paying for the day.
 
Disaddict

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Having the Wifi isn't a huge deal for me but it would be nice. I can tether off of my Infuse 4G anytime but it would be nice to be able to write up my trip report in the evenings out by the pool relaxing. That way I am not trying to remember everything that happened during the trip at the end. :( But I suppose Disney will be putting in free Wifi about the time they put those free fridges in the value rooms.... never. LOL
 
nngrendel

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Disaddict said:
Having the Wifi isn't a huge deal for me but it would be nice. I can tether off of my Infuse 4G anytime but it would be nice to be able to write up my trip report in the evenings out by the pool relaxing. That way I am not trying to remember everything that happened during the trip at the end. :( But I suppose Disney will be putting in free Wifi about the time they put those free fridges in the value rooms.... never. LOL
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Actually trip reports are meant to be written upon your arrival back to work. It helps prevent depression that sets in once you are thrown back into the everyday grind. Plus the thousands of photo's you took of your vacation including the high res photos of your meal at Le Cellier you have no problems remembering every detail.
 
MichWolv

MichWolv

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ddrongowski said:
I really do not care if wifi is available when I am at WDW. I am way to busy doing fun stuff at WDW, and do not have time for the internet. Could someone post reasons that WIFI when on vacation is such a necessity? Saying work is a reason is not a good one, since your on vacation.
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Seem a little harsh of you to diss my reason...since it's my reason, not yours. So even if you don't consider my reason to be good, that's my main reason. I am on vacation, but checking my email and doing 30-60 minutes of work once or twice during the trip can greatly reduce the inconvenience on my clients of me being away. And although I'd certainly be within my professional rights and comfort zone to tell them I won't be reachable at all while on vacation, the reality is that keeping my clients happy results in more income, less work (in the long run), and more money for more vacations. So I will spend the time to pick off the work that I can do quickly and will be helpful to my client. Doesn't matter whether the access is wifi or wired, but the internet access is very helpful to me. When it's free, I'm much happier than it's not.

I also will use internet while on vacation to make and change dining reservations, look up the weather, follow events in my town, keep up with sports and other news, etc. Most of that can easily be done with my phone, however.
 
Disaddict

Disaddict

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nngrendel said:
Actually trip reports are meant to be written upon your arrival back to work.
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Where's that written at?

nngrendel said:
Plus the thousands of photo's you took of your vacation including the high res photos of your meal at Le Cellier you have no problems remembering every detail.
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While I do take nearly 3000 photos during my trips I do not take photos of every single incident and event that happens. Sorry, the photo thing won't help. ;)
 
the-reason14

the-reason14

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I used to be upset that Disney didn't offer free wifi, now I don't really care too much. It would be nice, but personally it doesn't effect me as much just because I now have a smart phone and can tether if I want to. I understand their thinking in charging for it, or at least not being a 'free wifi' resort simply because you should be out in the parks not stuck in your room.
 
Disaddict

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Imagineer27 said:
They would add it and then people would complain because it would be SOOOOOOOOOO slow because of all the people using it.... :ROFLOL:
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Good point. People are going to gripe no matter what. "Yeah, you give us internet but it isn't wifi. You give us wifi but it isn't free (at GF). You give us free wifi but it's slow!" It never ends. If they did this and made sure it was fast then people would be upset because they could use it while driving. :(
 
THEMEPARKPIONEER

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Disaddict said:
Having the Wifi isn't a huge deal for me but it would be nice. I can tether off of my Infuse 4G anytime but it would be nice to be able to write up my trip report in the evenings out by the pool relaxing. That way I am not trying to remember everything that happened during the trip at the end. :( But I suppose Disney will be putting in free Wifi about the time they put those free fridges in the value rooms.... never. LOL
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I never thought I would say this but... thank God for 4G. Even worse, its convinient for camping LOL.
 
koryadams

koryadams

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Most campgrounds I go to even have free wifi!
And idk what I was more shocked about? NO gum sold on Disney property or NO free wifi?!
 

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