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Where to Find the Best Hotel Wi-Fi at Chains Around the World

Dan Peltier

Photo Credit: Some U.S. hotel chains have better Wi-Fi quality in Asia than they do in the U.S., a new Hotelwifitest ranking reveals. Pictured is a Wi-Fi-equipped hotel guest room at the ZAN Hotel in Voineasa, Romania. Flickr / Mihai Dragomirescu

Skift Take

We're starting to sound like a broken record asking for hotel Wi-Fi that's universally free and high quality. The paid model might seem to work in Asia for now but making guests pay to keep quality high isn't a sustainable long-term solution.

U.S. hotels charging for Wi-Fi in Asia evidently helps produce better Wi-Fi quality there than in the U.S. or Europe as chains like Marriott and Hilton, which both have paid models in the U.S. as well as Asia, have lesser quality Wi-Fi at their American properties. That's one of the biggest take-aways from a new ranking of hotel Wi-Fi quality percentages from Hotelwifitest, which lets travelers test hotel Wi-Fi while at a property and publishes test results for other travelers to view. Globally, two Scandinavian-based hotels, Nordic Choice Hotels and Scandic Hotels, were among the 10 hotels with the best overall Wi-Fi quality and both also ranked well in Europe. Marriott ranks the highest in the U.S., which at 47.2% isn't saying much, and the chain also ranks the highest for a U.S. hotel in Asia.

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