Marriott Resort, Marco Island, Florida

Many smaller hotel/motel chains offer free Internet connection.; but not
Marriott.

Can anyone tell me if there is free WiFi available near the Marco Island
Marriott? Marriott's prices to connect to the Internet almost amount to
extortion.

Thanks for any information.

Newby wrote:
> Many smaller hotel/motel chains offer free Internet connection.; but not
> Marriott.
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is free WiFi available near the Marco Island
> Marriott? Marriott's prices to connect to the Internet almost amount to
> extortion.
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
>
All the marriotts I have stayed in have wifi, not sure why this one
wouldn't.

"Newby" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:136t4b7ac440p6b@corp.supernews.com...
> Many smaller hotel/motel chains offer free Internet connection.; but not
> Marriott.
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is free WiFi available near the Marco Island
> Marriott? Marriott's prices to connect to the Internet almost amount to
> extortion.
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
Hopefully someone more knowlegable than me will answer, but...

I was there a few months ago with a similar problem. All I could find was a
McDonalds, but that was too much trouble; so I just used dial up.

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:13:08 -0400, "Newby" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote:

>Can anyone tell me if there is free WiFi available near the Marco Island
>Marriott?

Not that I could find.

>Marriott's prices to connect to the Internet almost amount to
>extortion.

The package of high-speed Internet connectivity and free local and long distance
telephone usage is bundled at $9.95 per day at all Marriotts, isn't it? When
you're paying around $200 a day for a room, that doesn't seem extortionate.

-- Larry

pltrgyst wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:13:08 -0400, "Newby" <nobody@nowhere.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me if there is free WiFi available near the Marco
>> Island Marriott?
>
> Not that I could find.
>
>> Marriott's prices to connect to the Internet almost amount to
>> extortion.
>
> The package of high-speed Internet connectivity and free local and
> long distance telephone usage is bundled at $9.95 per day at all
> Marriotts, isn't it? When you're paying around $200 a day for a room,
> that doesn't seem extortionate.

Well, actually, at $200 a day, charging extra for just about _anything_
seems extortionate.

> -- Larry

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Cant you stay anywhere else?
Isnt there any other hotels there?
Marriott Corp offers free Highspeed at their lower level chains
residence inn courtyard springhill fairfield townplace
try one of those.
Or just pay the 9.95 and be done with it!
It will save you your cell phone minutes, thats gotta be worth
something!

On Jun 12, 6:49 pm, Profile...@ wrote:
> Cant you stay anywhere else?
> Isnt there any other hotels there?
> Marriott Corp offers free Highspeed at their lower level chains
> residence inn courtyard springhill fairfield townplace
> try one of those.
> Or just pay the 9.95 and be done with it!
> It will save you your cell phone minutes, thats gotta be worth
> something!

the interent is free because there is competition among hotels at that
price. The higher end chains, marriott, hyatt, etc, are after a
different kind of traveler. A traveler to whom 10 bucks is relatively
nothing.

Chuck

<garciyalater@m> wrote in message
news:1181743116.660565.193250@z28g2000prd. o...
> On Jun 12, 6:49 pm, Profile...@ wrote:
>> Cant you stay anywhere else?
>> Isnt there any other hotels there?
>> Marriott Corp offers free Highspeed at their lower level chains
>> residence inn courtyard springhill fairfield townplace
>> try one of those.
>> Or just pay the 9.95 and be done with it!
>> It will save you your cell phone minutes, thats gotta be worth
>> something!
>
> the interent is free because there is competition among hotels at that
> price. The higher end chains, marriott, hyatt, etc, are after a
> different kind of traveler. A traveler to whom 10 bucks is relatively
> nothing.

and.....a traveler who will most likely either expense it to their employer
or write it off.....

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:08:58 +0300, Binyamin Dissen
<postingid@dissensoftware.com> wrote:

>:>>Marriott's prices to connect to the Internet almost amount to
>:>>extortion.
>
>:>The package of high-speed Internet connectivity and free local and long distance
>:>telephone usage is bundled at $9.95 per day at all Marriotts, isn't it? When
>:>you're paying around $200 a day for a room, that doesn't seem extortionate.
>
>It is a point of principle.
>
>Just because the hotel charges $bigbucks, it doesn't mean that one should
>blindly buy the $6 can of coke in the minibar.

And we don't. But when we pay such room rates, we're traveling on business, and
the rate for high-speed Internet is factored in in advance.

-- Larry

Am i the only one who doesnt think 200 bucks is realy all the much for
a room?

Chuck