Not just hotels, it's common for businesses to be able to access Google (though not necessarily Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Interestingly, in one such westerner-

Not just hotels, it's common for businesses to be able to access Google (though not necessarily Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Interestingly, in one such westerner-oriented hotel it was pretty much impossible to use other (TCP-based) VPNs, presumably because they were already doing some kind of tunneling to Hong Kong and three layers of congestion control were too much...