Jeffrey Veen

Skip Always

There's a great post at HotelChatter about which hotels offer the best Wifi service in the industry. And while I'm trying desperately hard to just stay home these days, when I do travel I want the experience to be as absolutely hassle-free as possible. If one more hotel desk receptionist tells me, "Oh yes, your room has an internet connection, in fact, you can use the in-room phone for any kind of call" I will scream. Probably at them.

Anyway, turns out Kimptons is the best, and HotelChatter relates a great anecdote of an engineer being dispatched to a low-signal room with a Linksys bridge to boost it to full strength. Nice. My experiences at Kimptons have been equally impressive, and I clicked through the story to their Web site, only to find ... a Flash-based splash page with thumping techno music. Sigh.

Yet, next to the obligatory Skip Intro button is one labeled Skip Always, ostensibly triggering a cookie that allows perpetual direct access to the actual home page. It's as if a sly interface designer is telling us, "Yeah, we hate useless pages like this too. But the CEO loves it. Sorry."

This entry was written by Jeffrey Veen and posted 3 November 2004 at 9:59 AM. It was filed under Travel, Web Design. | View blog reactions