[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]Hotel related AP names are used I believe, so for when a person staying at a hotel is searching for the wifi, they may connect to the malicious connection instead[/citation]
I've mostly given up on wifi at hotels. They frequently have too much space between hotspots, meaning half the time the signal is too weak from inside my room for a reliable connection.
Instead, I've started carrying a portable router/WAP when I travel, and just plug that into the wired Internet connection in the room. That guarantees I have a strong wifi signal within the room, and avoids any malicious fake hotspots. It also has the advantage of only having to sign into the hotel network once, then the entire family can connect to it (I just set the SSID and pw to be the same as my home network).