On our recent trip, we made a little detour to a Best Buy and picked up an Apple AirPort Express (both of us have HP laptops). We took it back to our room, plugged it in and VOILA! Wireless!!
I think the cost was about $100 - and the device is TINY....we will definitely keep it in our travel bag to take on trips. I travel a lot for business & find rooms without wireless very frequently. I will be loving this thing for sitting in my bed in my comfies and accessing internet when I want.
BLT tells you you can get it in the lobby only, but we were able to connect in our room, though the signal was very weak and sometimes we would lose it.
I hope it doesn't. I prefer to use my own router. It is annoying at HHI for instance because each time I turn my Ipad on I have to re-enter that code. Also, some streaming devices have no browser functions which mean they are pretty much useless without a router. There are ways to bridge it but the resulting signal is so weak it is hardly worth it.