Non-First-Class Hotels Have Better Channel Selections

[kevin_standlee]

It seems to me that the high-end hotels end up with a very limited selection of television channels, while those in the next tier down just take the local cable selection, and therefore end up with more channels. Thus this Candlewood Suites has Speed Channel, so I can watch the Chinese Grand Prix live from my hotel room tonight, albeit at the expense of losing just a little sleep.

Meanwhile, the hotel's wireless connection went flaky on me after I came back from putting in a half hour on the treadmill after dinner. The front desk helpfully loaned me an ethernet cable for their wired connection (I left my cable at home). The connection in the bedroom didn't work, but the one in the living room did, so I guess I'll be okay.

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[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

I've observed the same thing, and then some. For example when we drove across the country this summer to move (and stop by Denver for the Worldcon as well), at the inexpensive hotels (mostly Ramada's and one not-so-inexpensive Holiday Inn in Estes Park, CO) we usually got:
-- Local Cable TV
-- Free breakfast
-- A decent room

But at the Sheraton in downtown Denver, for the second highest room-night rate we got:
-- The hotel's limited selection of TV channels
-- No breakfast
-- A decent, slightly larger, room with a few nicer appointments.

The only exception was the historic roadside Motel in Williams Arizona which was two rooms, totaling the size of most of our other rooms, with no breakfast and small town local cable.