I know as well as anyone else the adage "you get what you pay for", so I really don't expect chocolate on my pillow when I stay in a budget hotel, unlike that time when I was in Nikko Saigon when I strolled into my palatial room to discover a delicious piece of white chocolate nested comfortably on each pillow of the two beds in my room... but here I digress. Anyway so yes, we pay for what we get.
Recently I have been assigned to some dreadful place distant from civilization; a small town near Melaka, so this gave me vast firsthand experience with second and third rate hotels. Yet about these hotels there is one aspect that irks me like no other - NO WIFI.
When I was traveling in the United States, even the crummiest motel had wifi in their rooms, and it was pretty fast too - fast enough for me to stream Youtube. Even some not too high grade hotels in Melaka had it too in the rooms, which really makes my stay much more comfortable, as I can then clear some emails and surf the net a bit after my dinner and bath, then go to sleep in the secure knowledge that my night was both somewhat productive and not too boring.
But currently I am in the reasonably renowned A Famosa resort and there is just no wifi in the rooms, only in the lobby. What makes things worse is that there is no table of a suitable height with a plug nearby except for an unused reception table facing the entrance, which I am now sitting at. Although this is tolerable in terms of comfort, it is really lacking in terms of dignity. What if other guests were to think I was some sort of poorly dressed receptionist?
Even worse, the net has now conked out. So I had lugged my laptop and cable out in vain. Now I am typing this using my phone hotspot with great disdain for this travesty of a hotel, and feeling a great deal of nostalgia for Hilton Tokyo.
