Probably unrelated, but when in Canada (well, Ottawa really) I don't even dare to use the hotel phone for phoning another room, for fear of being charged, after the time I had do make a few short, very important calls over to Europe. For some reason the connection failed for 4 out of 5 calls, I was still charged 40 dollars for a non-connecting call..! After that the hotel phone became to me a bit like those mini-bars with sensors where you're charged just by looking at the goods.. I won't go near it (if you ever saw the Dilbert cartoon about hotel minibars you'll see what I mean.)