Baddog, if your normal wireless connection for your laptop is a built in wireless, you might find that the reception sucks pretty much everywhere.
You could consider taking an extender with you.
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=357
That would allow you to take a much lower wireless signal and boost it into your hotel room... basically you can place it anywhere in your room that has signal, and you would have a ton more signal in your room.