Re: Poor Desperate Lobbyist...

On Mar 31, 8:38 pm, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dan Christensen wrote:
On Mar 31, 4:55 pm, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dan Christensen wrote:
On Mar 30, 4:43 pm, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DanChristensenclaim he was charged $150 an hour?
Please post your figure.
If  PL had any local knowledge, he would know that it is not out of
line these days for a tourist resort in high season, with only one or
two computers for several hundred guests
I traced the number you posted to Hotel "Brisas" in Guardalava (an all
in resort).

 From a description I found of the hotel:
"All of the air-conditioned lodgings come with an en suite bathroom with
a hairdryer, a direct dial telephone, satellite/ cable TV, a radio, an
Internet connection, a minibar, a hire safe and a terrace."http://www.alpharooms.com/brisas_guardalavaca_in_playa_guardalavaca.aspx

"Facilities include a 24-hour reception desk, a safe, a currency
exchange facility and a lift in addition to a hairdressing salon, a bar,
a nightclub, a games room, a restaurant and Internet access."

http://hotels.hotelopia.com/cuba/holguin/hotel-brisas-guardalavaca.html
Confirmed here:http://hotel.travel.ch/index_en/Central_America_and_Caribic/Cuba/Holg...

It even boasts : "public internet"

Again, the "public internet" there consists of only one computer in
the main lobby for the use of hundreds of guests. And they charged $5
(CUC) for 2 minutes during my stay there at March break -- reasonable
given complaints about long line-ups.

Hotel Brisas Guardalavaca facilities

     * 24h. Check-in
     * 24h. Reception
     * Safe
     * Money Exchange
     * Lift-s
     * Shop-s
     * Hairdresser
     * Bar-s
     * Disco / Club
     * Game Room
     * Restaurant -s
     * Restaurant - Air-conditioned
     * Public Internethttp://www.bedfinder.com/hotel_en/Cuba/Holguin_Hotels/Hotel_Brisas_Gu...

So not just "one or two computers" : a completely wired hotel.

 > to charge $5 for 2 minutes of

internet access -- not enough for any serious surfing, but enough to
send that urgent e-mail. This is what they were charging at the hotel
I was staying at March break in Holguin. Now Fric and Frac here are
desperately trying to make something of this.
That lie has been exposed by those that know very well.
Some comments here:

 From Lonely Planet where someone tested your "$150" claim:

[snip]

Poor, desperate, lobbyist... Setting up a straw man to cover up for
his lack of local knowledge.

Nope.
exposing your lies about me as usual.

The hotel quoted a price of $5 for 2
minutes.

(snip)

Nope.
According to the hotel 5 CUC per hour.

Get back to us
when you have ALL the facts, Mr. Lobbyist. What a loser!

I have Dan and they expose you as the pathetic liar you are.

According to the hotel itself internet access costs 5 CUC per hour.


Better write back, Mr. Lobbyist. Ask them about the rate during the
March break, their high season. It was 5 CUC for 2 minutes. Anyone who
says otherwise, they doesn't know what they are talking about.

Dan
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