Re: Only free if your time is worth nothing
All the UK hotels I've stayed in have free WiFi, sometimes with a freely given password, sometimes completely open, sometimes there's a "charge" of having to register an email address through a portal page. The only times I've had issues have been in US owned chain hotels in the UK where either you only get WiFi if you pay, or they give a slight nod to "free" WiFi which provides little more than dial-up speeds as an alternative to the paid for one.
On the other hand, according to some hotel receptionists I've spoken too, the WiFi can get congested some evenings because of people rocking up with firesticks/chromesticks/whatever to plug into the telly of an evening. The last one I was in, just last week, said they had a 5Mb/s restriction per connection (they had a big fibre connection). She actually apologised for the restriction!! I know many people who still can't get that at home :-)