Wi-Fi more important in hotels than hot water, breakfast or parking

Shelbourne Hotel

In a recent survey of hotel guests, 70 percent of Irish people said they are now ignoring the TV in their hotel room, and choosing to stream content through services such as Netflix on their own laptops, tablets and smartphones.

Irish tourists and business travellers said that reliable Wi-Fi is more important than hot water, breakfast and parking.

Over half of those surveyed said the last time they stayed in a hotel in Ireland, the Wi-Fi was slow or of a poor quality. 62 percent said they would pay for fast and reliable Wi-Fi.

28 percent said social media is the main activity they use hotel Wi-Fi for, while 23 percent use Wi-Fi to check their emails. Bitbuzz, Ireland's leading independent provider of Wi-Fi, now has over 12,500 hotel bedrooms in its network and over two million registered users across the UK and Ireland.

The Bitbuzz Wi-Fi service enables users with a Wi-Fi enabled device to connect to the internet at broadband speeds without the need for any cables or wires.