McDonald's offers free wi-fi Internet service in 1,200 U.K. outlets

 UK Find your nearest Free WiFi hotspot. Free WIFI at most mcdonalds in the uk

UK    Starbucks brings Wi-Fi to 154 UK stores
If only it was as 'cheap' as the coffee...Starbucks' most recent roll-out is its largest to date, adding hotspots to 98 sites, bringing the total to 154. Locations to gain WLANs in this latest expansion programme include shops in Canterbury, Inverness, Lincoln and Reading, the company said. A full list is available from Starbucks' web site?.

Camping and Caravanning Club revise WiFi charges
The Camping and Caravanning Club has launched a new, value-for-money Wi-Fi pricing structure ahead of the 2010 season.In partnership with Wicoms Ltd, The Club is now able to offer wireless broadband on the majority of its Club Sites.But, after listening to member feedback about price and usage, and having since negotiated a new deal with Wicoms, two simple tariffs have been introduced.A 12GB Membership Access Voucher, costing £42, offers 12GB data allowance whenever you choose across the Site network (96 Sites), within a 12-month period after first log-in.That should give users the ability to send 1,000 emails or surf the internet for 100 hours every month.Alternatively campers can buy a One Hour Metered Access Voucher for just £5. This offers complete flexibility in that the user can log on and off for up to one month for a total online time of 60 minutes (each session is rounded up to five minutes).Marketing & Communications Director Matthew Eastlake said: "Having listened to our members, the new passes represent a much improved and simplified offering."We always want to make the experience of staying on a Club Site a positive one and we are continually looking for ways to develop our on-site offerings."Hopefully, this new price package will help enhance that customer experience and amplify our Club Sites as must-go places to camp.Wi-Fi passes can be purchased via the Contact Centre when making a booking or on Site itself and will be available for the start of the season.

Rarely have we heard of a charge being made for this library service and it was only in the UK that any fuss was made about being a member of the library or living in the Parish. (Fleetwood wanted a local address, temporary membership and a refundable ₤10 deposit). Libraries will often print pages for you and invariably make a small charge per page, as they do for photocopying.

Sometimes, a library may have a corner where you can use your own laptop: through a broadband access point or via WiFi. We first met this in the library in Bled at the head of Slovenia's Lake Bled in the Julian Alps.

The main problem with library use that we have found is being able to use data prepared off-line or collecting data to take away. If there is an accessible USB port, we plug our 125MB memory stick in. A longish lead added to the stick is useful, in case the USB port is awkward to access. Librarians vary from the very helpful and well-informed, to those who know nothing and leave you alone, to those who look shocked at the very idea that you might want to insert your memory stick into their inaccessible port! So better not to ask in the last 2 cases! Just do it

In Greece forget the use of libraries – they haven't got any!:

 Use Tourist Information Centres/Campsite Offices.Quite often a Tourist Information Centre will have a computer available (usually just one) for a short time (perhaps 15 minutes) for checking emails. If they are not busy, this time may stretch. They can also tell you of any other internet facilities in their town.
Use Internet Cafes and Centres. A vanishing breed in affluent northern Europe, but still active in the south and east, are the specialist internet centres and cafes. In Hungary, we used an internet nightclub! In Greece, bars may have computers for games. In these commercial operations, you pay by the hour and are unlikely to have any problem with importing and exporting data. A good internet centre may offer specialist services, such as scanning, OCR, making a CD from digital camera images, colour and photograph printing, etc. The downside is that they can be expensive and they may be noisy, busy with adolescents playing games with sound effects. Or even scary, frequented by silent men of a certain age and disposition, reminding themselves of former fantasies.
More commonly than in libraries, an internet centre may have a corner where you can use your own laptop: through a broadband access point or via WiFi. We first met this in a centre on Queen Street, the main street in Auckland, New Zealand.

It's not unusual for campsite offices (Reception) to have an ancient machine connected to the net for their own emails and bookings. They may have an 'official' procedure for its use for a limited time – free or for a small charge. If you stay long on a campsite and strike up good relationships, the use of the campsite machine may become routine.