Going on holiday doesn’t mean taking a break from my smartphone | Kevin Rushby

According to a new survey, it takes the majority of hotel guests seven minutes to log on to the Wi-Fi after their arrival. So what's the hold-up?

What do you do first on arriving at a hotel? Check out the pool? Or the view from the balcony? No. Apparently most of us now demand the Wi-Fi code and logon, with a massive 65% admitting to tuning in within seven minutes of arrival, according to a new survey. All I can say, as a frequent traveller, is, what took you so long?

Confession: I am an instinctive and habitual Wi-Fi user, the sort who mainlines Instagram and Twitter without much reflection on the implications for my own mental and physical health. Who cares?