I am connected to the hotel wifi network, but the login screen does not appear.

If you have the BOINGO WI-FI FINDER app installed, uninstall it.

The app doesn't work and breaks the login for a lot of free wi-fi services.

You'll know this is the problem if you pick the hotel Wi-Fi network and shortly thereafter the red bar saying "Boingo Wi-Fi available here" pops down from the top of the screen, and yet the login screen never occurs so the little wi-fi icon (waves) never appears in the top left corner.

And no, switching to the Boingo app won't get you connected either. I already knew it was a piece of crap since its never worked to connect me to any networks at airports or otherwise and I'd said as much in my review. Didn't realize yet (or maybe they made the app worse recently?) that it would break existing free Wi-Fi networks you had no trouble logging into without it installed. \

Anyway, try this.

I have the same problem now and then. Sometimes entering gibberish in the search or URL bar will seem to force an error message (Can't find page, etc) and then a refresh takes me to the hotel login screen.

YMMV, good luck.

coop

Well, I only had that problems with my iOS devices. And my colleagues have the same problem with their iPhone and iPad. So yes I think it have something to do with Apple. And as I wrote before, in my hotel room right now it wasn't working and then it did hours later just by opening a new tab. So it's not a problem with Java.

I was told to turn off the cellular data and then you can see the login screen. It usually works. Right now I am in a hotel where I have to keep turning the iphone off to reconnect. Laptop is fine. Apple needs to fix this.

I am at a hotel and had this same issue. It worked on every other device I had (two laptops & an iPhone), but it would NOT work on my iPad. I could connect to the wireless SSID, and the authentication page would immediately pop up. However, once I clicked on the button to accept the terms, it showed a blank screen - as if it was trying to authenticate but wouldn't.

I tried all solutions here sans the boingo option since I didn't have that loaded. Nothing worked. I then started digging and found my solution. Hopefully it helps others, too.

Settings\Safari\Privacy & Security\Block Cookies - I had it set to Always Block. I changed it to Allow from Websites I Visit, and that fixed it for me.

Good luck.

I have been having this same problem in several different hotels. Clearly it is my phone - my wife and son have the exact same model iphone (4G) and they are not having any wifi problems - even in the same room, same hotel.

Sometimes the wifi works fine for 1-2 days, then it stops bringing up the login screen when I reconnect. I have tried all the suggested tricks - open Safari, forget the network, renew lease, reset network settings. It appears to be connecting to the wifi but permission to access the internet is blocked because the login screen never appears.

I have the exact same problem as the original poster and I tried many times already the solution proposed by trstark66 and it's still not working. It's not working for both my iPad and iPhone 5. I'm using the latest iOS version available all the time. I have my iPad since 3 years and my iPhone since 1 years and I always had that problem. I'm an airline pilot so I'm always in hotels. I asked my colleagues who also have iPhones and iPads and they all have the same problems from time to time. And when I go in an apple store they all say that it's the first time they hear about that problem. I never have that problem with my PCs, my previous phone and my BB playbook. Only with my iPhone and iPad....since now 3 years...Always the same problem. I'm connected to the Hotel Network, I have an IP address but nothing popup to register with a user name, password or just to access the "I have read and accept the condition.../connect". And when I go in Safari or other Browsers, I am not redirected to a login page. All I have is a message saying cannot access the webpage because I'm not connected to Internet. I tried already hard resets, on/off Wi-Fi, automatic connexion off, forget this network, reset network setting...

My solution for now is to use my Boingo account. I connect to the hotel Network and then I use the Boingo app to connect to Internet.

But, sometimes it works the first time or suddenly for no reason.

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Very funny, I was using Boingo on my ipad to write this message in my Hotel room because I was unable to use my free connection as usual. When I tried to press "Add Reply" it failed and I had the message "An error occured while trying to submit your post, please try again". The reason was that boingo was disconnected since I was taking too long to write this message. So I wasn't connected to Internet anymore. I opened a second tab in Safari and what did I see!... the login page to access the free connection from the hotel. This is crazy. Apple, you really suck with hotel/coffee hotspots... I tried for hours and nothing, now hours later I just open a new tab and it works. But tomorrow I know I will try the same and it will not work again. It shouldn't be that complicated.

PinballLes

I was having the exact same problem as the original poster. I followed trstark66's advice and it worked perfectly. The only thing I did differently was make sure that typed the full URL, as in http://www.apple.com, as opposed to just apple.com

Thanks trstark66!

I was also having this problem. Usually the first time I logged into a hotel of airport network my iPhone 5 would bring up the log in page and all would go well. But when I tried to connect to the network a secound time (the next day, hour whatever) my phone would not pull up the log in page. Like PinballLes I put in http://www.apple.com which brought me to the apple page (probably in my browsing history somewhere) then I opened a new tab and that brought me to the login page. I am not sure why this workaround works.. but at least it did. It is deffinitly something that apple needs to fix.

thanks champ, it worked (:

same for me:/

Thanks. This recommendation was the silver bullet which solved the problem!!

have a look this site maybe you got the solution on this site and using this app its maybe available on ios

Thank you for providing both a solution and a satisfying explanation. I had already tried most of the other suggestions before coming to this site for help, so I knew they would not work.

I have the same problem on my iPhone 5 at various hotels and cafes. If I have used the wifi network before, and the password has changed, the login screen won't appear when I try and login on subsequent visits. Even after forgetting the network, renewing the lease, etc.

Any ideas?