The Good Hotel Guide 2007 has named and shamed hotels in it's new guide who decide to charge users excessive prices for Wi-Fi access.

The 2007 edition of the guide reveals that some UK hotels charge as much as £5 an hour for Wi-Fi access, a Cambridge hotel is even identified as charging their guests £20 for one day's access! Which isn't a bad mark up when you think of how much a Wi-Fi network costs to install and maintain, even so, analysts think that it is value for money.

But even if some older UK hotels have reception problems the price of an access point isn't exactly going to break the bank.

It's been suggested that the first step towards tackling hotel Wi-Fi pricing in the UK should be transparency, as it is "not sufficiently clear when booking a hotel what type of broadband is available, what price it is — they normally just say 'Internet available'" say Fogg. The problem seems to be that UK hotels see it as a way of making money rather than absorbing the price in the room rates.

Just a note that this article was written in a Dutch hotel....on free Wi-Fi.