[Merv and Sharon]

Stephen -we have just been travelling around Europe the last 5 weeks, and I used wifi where I could. Strangely the most expensive hotels, Ritz-Carlton, Novaltel Blue, Sheraton, charged for wifi while the ones in Asia on the way back had it free.

Many of the European places contract their wifi out to third party companies and they all charge day rates. I found that there were several companies providing euro-wide sims for the iPad at cheap rates (O2, Orange, etc). You can use such a card in your phone and set up a hotspot connection to your laptop, if their plan allows data/file transmission.

Some small places had laid in wifi for the whole town with free access. Lots of variation.