Free wireless internet is a make or break deal for business guests in UK hotels

 Even though most will be able to claim any expenses from their employers, business travellers are highly averse to the idea of paying for wireless internet access in a hotel.

Indeed, according to new research, not only is the way in which some hotels in London and elsewhere in the world continue to charge their guests to get online an irritant to corporate guests, it can make or break a deal.

That is, while in the past free wireless may have been viewed as a nice extra, it is now regarded by a majority of both business and leisure travellers as a right, up there with complimentary tea and coffee and towels and, as such, consumers are starting to vote with their feet by boycotting establishments that have the nerve to charge them for internet use.

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Mumbai braces for follow-up terrorist attack

A MANHUNT was under way in Mumbai yesterday for four alleged members of the same Islamist group that attacked the city in 2008, amid warnings of a strike on foreign targets over Christmas and the new year.
Roads were closed in and around the luxury Taj Mahal Palace Hotel - focus of the deadly siege two years ago that killed 166 - while armed police were out in force at high-profile sites, including overseas consulates.
Mumbai police warned on Friday that four operatives of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit were preparing a ''violent attack'' during the festive season and called for residents to be vigilant.

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Hardrock cancels Rehab Reality show

The truTV reality show “Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel” won’t be returning for a fourth season, attorneys have disclosed.

The disclosure was made last week in court papers by attorneys for the Las Vegas Hard Rock hotel-casino, which hosts Rehab day parties during the summer and was hit with a trademark lawsuit over the TV show in September by the owner of the international Hard Rock brand.

Hard Rock Cafe International charged in the September lawsuit that the TV show about the Las Vegas parties was tarnishing the Hard Rock brand by portraying “drunken debauchery, acts of vandalism, sexual harassment, violence and criminality.”

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