KissaBoo

Hack of the Century! (or how to save a few bucks)

First, hotels you are paying for blow (there is nothing like staying on someone else's expense account). When you are paying for it, the constant nickel and diming for services you expect to be included (water, cart, telephone, parking, no leaks from the ceiling, etc.) makes one cheap and suspicious. Second, going along with the point of being nickled and dimed, when businesses like Panera Bread and hotels like the Crowne Plaza offer free wireless access, among numerous others, it seems insane when an hotel would charge you an exorbitant fee like $10 a day to provide it, especially when they would charge for phone service to use your old dial up.
Well, if you are ever in a hotel that entrusts their wireless service to Golden Tree.com, let me give you a little tip. They must be among the laziest programmers of all-time since they include the fee price in the query string of the URL. In other words, the web page they redirect you to when you attempt to access the Internet will have a very noticeable section that says fee=$insane price. I thought this variable would only affect the price displayed on the web page, but if you change this value to a number as large (like a $100) or small (like $1.00) as you feel appropriate, that will be the amount you are charged. Someone might say that this value could even be changed to an amount less than a dollar to be more fair. Btw, this really isn't a hack, as much as it was a modification to a contract the framer drafted with my input and I accepted...