IT security question. I’ve always thought that using hotel WiFi was “Unsafe at Any Speed”.
Even if you have a VPN, there’s some sort of open portal you need to access to get online, and my understanding is a lot of the WiFi is not encrypted at all and depends on sites and apps using SSL/TLS. And there are ways to do “HTTPS inspection” to crack into the data.
Or someone using rogue DNS to reroute and steal login credentials.