Swisscom’s shite deal with Premier Travel Inn
Back in Hartlepool this evening and this time I’m checking out the Premier Travel Inn at the Marina. Welcome to the centrally managed corporate bosom — I like the fact that everywhere you look here, it’s corporate. Like a McDonalds style hotel. Whatever your viewpoint of Premier, at least there’s a consistent service level.
The only arse is the WiFi, cunningly provided by Swisscom, who, it appears, are doing their best to extort as much cash as possible out of a dying market. Although Hartlepool’s a possible exception, I make my hotel purchasing decisions based on whether they offer ‘free’ WiFi.
I am not feeling much love from the Premier Travel Inn people because of their stupid decision to do a deal with Swisscom.
I’ve got a BT Openworld account and a Cloud account — but, of course, Swisscom don’t have any peering arrangements with them, so you’re forced to pay the shite fees if you want internet access.
Well screw you Mr & Mrs Swisscom, next time I will use T-Mobile or Vodafone. Or, actually, I probably won’t come back to the Premier Travel Inn. I’ll try somewhere else.
The prices?
£3.00 buys you 30 minutes.
£5.00 buys you 120 minutes. And so on. The usual shite.
What a piss poor service offering.
The speed’s fine. I’m just not happy with the cost. Still, paid it, did my work, next. Won’t do it again.
If you go down to the reception at the Travel Inns you can buy the credit from them at cheaper prices…..
60 mins
online - £5.00
reception - £3.00
24 hrs
online - £17.00
reception - £10.00
cheaper but still not ideal
Posted by Philzi on March 7th, 2007 at 6:27 pm.I missed this when you first posted it… but Swisscom is IMO the worst paid hotspot provider, and it’s a total arse that Premier Travel Inn uses them. I think the worst part is that not only do they have ridiculous prices, they impose transfer limits as well, which is just stupid.
Posted by carlo on March 8th, 2007 at 6:17 am.