Weekly Top 10: Liberty Hotel to keep Champagne welcome top post

The 10 most popular stories on Hotel Check-In for the past week - the week that we at USA TODAY switched over to our new design - includes stories about Wi-Fi fee trends, a sexy new luxury hotel and news that a major chain has incorporated TripAdvisor reviews into its website.

The full Top 10 list for the week ending Sept. 29:

1. Champagne welcome - Boston decides that it's OK for the luxury Liberty Hotel to offer guests a flute of bubbly when they check into the property.

2. Staying in touch with family - USA TODAY Road Warriors say they often connect with their loved ones in the privacy of their hotel rooms.

3. Hang up the hotel phone - Guests barely use hotel room telephones anymore, resulting in less telecommunications revenue, but now Wi-Fi fees are starting to change that.

4. Customer reviews - Best Western becomes latest hotel chain to add customer reviews to its website; Wyndham earlier this year added customer reviews, too.

5. Weekly Top 10 - Our weekly roundup of readers' 10 favorite stories for the prior week this week became one of those Top 10 stories!

6. Astonishing hotel pool - Read about a Holiday Inn in Shanghai that has a cantilevered pool that lets guests feel like they're flying in the sky.

7. Best bathroom contest - A hotel in Vancouver's in the running for the best bathroom in Canada contest.

8. Unusual hotel chain perk - For a limited-time only, the Loews chain will give some customers free membership in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's expedited immigration program.

9. Exclusive photos - Photos of the sexy, new Four Seasons hotel in Shanghai that opened Sept. 4. The hotel features over-the-top touches such as peacock-feather wall coverings and semi-precious-gem-encrusted door handles and tables.

10. Travel slowing? - Hotel Check-In checks out early signs that the growth in hotel demand may be slowing.