Lack of Internet Access

[BroganMc]

Uh... maybe you should call the Marriotts and tell them this. The full service hotels are still charging as of last week. And the Marriott website is still saying it's a charge!

I doubt the veracity of what Marriott's website is reporting. It says there is no internet access offered at Grande Vista and Horizons too. I KNOW that's false. I use my free access every time I visit and have for the last 2 years.

I think free internet is like PPV movies at Disney. If it keeps you IN your hotel room and out of the parks/shops you aren't going to see it anytime soon!

I hope you're wrong, because it will hurt the DVC market longterm as well as onsite hotel stays. The internet has become ubiquitous with modern life. Not offering it or charging for it is like charging for lamps and lightbulbs.

 

[CarolA]

I doubt the veracity of what Marriott's website is reporting. It says there is no internet access offered at Grande Vista and Horizons too. I KNOW that's false. I use my free access every time I visit and have for the last 2 years.



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Well I am 100% sure it's right regarding the full service Marriott. It's a CHARGE. I am staying in one every week. There's a nice little card in the room explaining the charge!

 

[Delaware Mike]

Well I am 100% sure it's right regarding the full service Marriott. It's a CHARGE. I am staying in one every week. There's a nice little card in the room explaining the charge!

I stayed at the Marriott Park Ridge (Montvale, NJ) just last week and was charged $9.95 for access...

 

[Chuck S]

Be careful what you wish for. If Disney loses one revenue stream through free internet, they'll make up for it somewhere (parking, resort services surcharge, dues, etc)

 

[DisDaydreamer]

I would guess it is this way for the same reason they don't have premium channels on the television:
They want you to be in the parks, out of your room, spending money

Some people might just read past this response, but I think there is a lot of basis to it.

 

[sweetinmaine]

Just reading through here...Are you saying that there is no Internet connection in the BWV rooms? of if there is, there is a charge? Would you happen to know what the $$$ is? Leaving on Thursday morning and not sure if I'm bringing laptop or not..Thanks.

 

[Chuck S]

Just reading through here...Are you saying that there is no Internet connection in the BWV rooms? of if there is, there is a charge? Would you happen to know what the $$$ is? Leaving on Thursday morning and not sure if I'm bringing laptop or not..Thanks.

All WDW Resorts have a cabled high speed ethernet connection. The cost is $9.95 per 24 hour period.

 

[sweetinmaine]

All WDW Resorts have a cabled high speed ethernet connection. The cost is $9.95 per 24 hour period.

Thanks...I guess I'll bring it after all...Another question...where do you secure the laptop when you are out in the parks? I heard that the new in room safes are large enough to hold them? Is that the case?

 

[Chuck S]

It depends upon the size of your laptop. Some are small enough to fit in the safes, some people simply "hide" their laptops in the drawers with their clothes. I know at OKW, the one bedroom and larger units safes are too small for a laptop. When they decided a few years later to add safes to the studios, they are the larger safes that will accomodate some laptops. I haven't stayed at BWV, so I don't know what size safes the room have there.

 

[jco_direwolf]

I've been involved with running the Usenix conference before and I know one problem is that Marriott got into a long term contract with STSM (I think that is the right name) to provide Internet connectivity for guests.

And most or all of the $9-15 that gets charged is not going to Marriott it's going to the company that provides the service.

I've gotten the impression that because the higher end hotels got into offering high-speed Internet before the lower cost places, they sorta missed out. They contracted the service out, and then the service became cheap and now the locked into a contract.

How this relates is Usenix has been providing IP connectivity for attendees since before I started attending the conference in 1989. When Marriott added the High-Speed Internet, all of a sudden it changed the rules which we could provide the connectivity, because of the exclusivity of the providers contract.

johno

 

[50 years Too!]

Do any of you know if there is a spot in the BWV where you can pick up wireless?
I saw that the common areas at GF have it.
Thanks, Deb

 

[Judique]

Thanks...I guess I'll bring it after all...Another question...where do you secure the laptop when you are out in the parks? I heard that the new in room safes are large enough to hold them? Is that the case?

I just leave mine sitting on the table. Sometimes I even forget to turn it off. Same with cameras, loose change, whatever. Last time I put something in the safe I lost the key and it took 2 hours to get the safe open.

 

[theoarn]

When I have stayed at GF and AKL I have just left mine in my room.
THeo

 

[Clotho]

We put ours in the safe. They provide laptop-ready safes, why not utilize them?

 

[CarolA]

We put ours in the safe. They provide laptop-ready safes, why not utilize them?

Because they are not "laptop ready". Mine won't fit. I use the cable lock and just lock it to the dining room table or some other LARGE piece of furniture.

 

[jemiaule]

My husband and I leave our laptops sitting out.

 

[Entropy]

The price for the net at DVC doesn't make us jump for joy, but we do bring a small wireless router and hook it up in the room. At least then you can be mobile and wireless in the villa and the balcony with your laptop and not sitting at the desk. This may not work for others, but it does for us.

~DW

I like it when people do this. Then I can find the unsecured router and piggyback the internet.
I used to do this a lot in Redmond, WA when i was staying there. Though the Internet connection was FREE , I liked being wireless in the room.

 

[MikeS.]

I too bring my D-Link wireless router from home.It worked great for me last year.

I don't like that all the DVC properties don't have HS internet. We're going to VB in August and I'm going to have to figure out how to work out with MSN and Verizon a dial-up connection.

I too think that Dianey should be offering FREE HS 'net services. I won't stay at a high end hotel because of all their stupid charges. My preferred hotel is the Courtyard by Marriott.

 

[sjdisneywedding]

It has nothing to do with high end resorts, low end resorts, or resorts/hotels in between. I am sure you can find examples where each level has free internet and where each does not.

It has to do with customer service. When I am at Disney I expect the best, whether thats right or wrong, thats what I expect. In todays day, where you can get free wireless every 5 feet down any street, its just ridiculous to be charging. Especially at the rate its at, I could see a nominal weekly fee or lentgh of stay fee, but not the fee they currently have. The price of providing this service is probably pennies per room.

You can get free wireless at tons of restaurants and public places, so I dont want to hear about the tech support. free interent should not come with tech support. If you cant figure it out go to the desk and use the ethernet for the daily fee and then get your support

Just get with the times and use the feature to your benefit. The home page everyone would go through could show events for the day and all that garbage. what company wouldnt want every person logging on to the internet to see a page of marketing.

Its Disney--I am sure if they thought about it they could use the free internet everyone was using to actually make more money than the lousy 12.95 they get now.

 

[Chuck S]

It has nothing to do with high end resorts, low end resorts, or resorts/hotels in between. I am sure you can find examples where each level has free internet and where each does not.

It has to do with customer service. When I am at Disney I expect the best, whether thats right or wrong, thats what I expect. In todays day, where you can get free wireless every 5 feet down any street, its just ridiculous to be charging. Especially at the rate its at, I could see a nominal weekly fee or lentgh of stay fee, but not the fee they currently have. The price of providing this service is probably pennies per room.

You can get free wireless at tons of restaurants and public places, so I dont want to hear about the tech support. free interent should not come with tech support. If you cant figure it out go to the desk and use the ethernet for the daily fee and then get your support

Just get with the times and use the feature to your benefit. The home page everyone would go through could show events for the day and all that garbage. what company wouldnt want every person logging on to the internet to see a page of marketing.

Its Disney--I am sure if they thought about it they could use the free internet everyone was using to actually make more money than the lousy 12.95 they get now.

My understanding that neither Disney, nor DVC, paid for the rooms to be wired. It was done via a contract with the internet provider. And there is little that can be done to change prices until that contract expires.