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Jackpot: Las Vegas McCarran International Airport has free WiFi (if you can pull yourself away from the slots).<\/p><\/div>\n

By Mark Chesnut<\/em><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got a layover that\u2019s just long enough to check e-mail on something larger than your cell phone, but you have no VIP club membership handy and you don\u2019t feel like paying as much as $20 to access Wi-Fi for just an hour or two. What to do?<\/p>\n

In a handful of airports, you can get connected for free. I call these \u201cangel airports\u201d for providing a valuable, much-appreciated — and free — amenity, which makes it easier to stay productive while away from home. Airports with free Wi-Fi include Boston, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Orlando International, Portland, Ore., Rochester, N.Y., Seattle and Tampa. Even the small-but-modern airport in Managua, Nicaragua, offers free Wi-Fi. Airport websites usually mention if they have free Wi-Fi, although it may be hidden so deeply inside the site that you may notsee it.<\/p>\n

Still, a lot of airports don\u2019t give it away for free. Travelers then are left with a few different options for getting online at the cheapest possible price (or, if they\u2019re lucky, for free). Among the strategies:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sit near the entrance to an airline VIP club, with the hope of using the club\u2019s free Wi-Fi (if it\u2019s not password-protected).
\n\u2022 Find a Starbucks that\u2019s large enough to have its own free Wi-Fi.\u00a0Stake a place in or near the lobby of an on-site airport hotel, where Wi-Fi may be offered.
\n\u2022 Bite the bullet and either pay for temporary access via a service like Boingo, or a day pass to an airline club (which at least will also include some free refreshments and a quiet ambiance).<\/p>\n

When presented with a choice of connecting in an airport that does have free Wi-Fi versus one that doesn\u2019t, the lure of a connection that\u2019s totally gratis<\/em> may be strong enough to change travel plans at the time of booking. After all, do we really exist if we\u2019re not visible online at every waking hour?<\/p>\n

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