International Surfing

Sitting in a hotel lobby, trying to get onto wifi, I seem to have 4 accounts with my provider through an employee scheme, my broadband and FON and a mysterious 4th. When I tried to log in with two of those I had an error messaging saying something about not having 'roaming' enabled. The provider didn't recognise my FON account and I couldn't get details of my other account. Thank you, but why should I have to have roaming to get on the web? It's not like I'm making long distance international phone calls, the web is here in the room (I can feel it), but I'm not allowed to play. I had to buy credit, and that just sucks!