Marks Hotel on Bath street
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I spent a few days in Scotland – Glasgow and Perth – for work and stayed at the excellent Marks Hotel.
red hotel room
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Apart from the amazing decor – very ‘old world decadent’ I thought – and the very good service, the hotel had FREE wi-fi throughout and in terms of speed I could not fault it one bit.
I always fail to understand why more hotels don’t do this. A few months ago I had to pay what can only be described as exorbitant prices to get Internet access at a London Park Inn. Not only that, but the quality was so poor that I wished I never had given the money.
Internet Charges for Park Inn visitors
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Wake up people. Internet access is vital nowadays and people will pretty soon go to another hotel instead of having to pay you through the nose.
Will I be going back to the Park Inn? No way (assuming it’s down to me). Will I be going back to Marks Hotel? In a heartbeat.
How about you? Which services you cannot live without in a hotel?
I totally agree. It has happened to me to choose a hotel in favor of another, just because the latter did not have free WiFi (especially on business trips, it's a necessity). It's pathetic to pay a lot of money for a room and then have to accept on being charged by the *hour* to use their always-on broadband connection.
It's like that in the States as well. 3 different hotels, a Marriott one in LA, a Hilton in NY and a Wyndham in Houston all required 10$ per day Internet Access fee with moderate speeds, through a proxy that only allowed http connections. This is just sad…
I wonder why it only allowed http connections. some sort of legal issue?
I don't think so, one could use rapidshare over http and download tons of illegal content. I can only see it from a technical point of view: Peer2Peer software is a bandwidth hogger plus it requires much more expensive hardware to handle thousands of open connections. Just my 2 eurocents.
It's like that in the States as well. 3 different hotels, a Marriott one in LA, a Hilton in NY and a Wyndham in Houston all required 10$ per day Internet Access fee with moderate speeds, through a proxy that only allowed http connections. This is just sad…
Dear Sofia
Thank you for taking the time to include our hotel in your blog. WIFI access will always be free in our hotel so if your back in Glasgow come stay with us again.
Kind Regards
Ross Ferguson
General Manager
Hello Ross!
I am impressed!
Your hotel was great and it's always my first choice when I visit Glasgow. Hope to see you around again
@joellehaddad I hate having to pay extortionate amounts – oh check out this glasgow hotel with free wifi I loved it http://is.gd/chEeX
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