Does this apply to the room or the individual member?If several people are sharing a room and only one is a member, can all of them use the account?

We don’t know the mechanics of how it works, I’m afraid. I used it during ConJose in 2002, but only connected one computer at a time, so I don’t know what happens if you have multiple machines.

Update on site: The access is for anyone in the room, or more correctly, anyone who knows the Fairmont President’s Club member’s name and number. However, as pointed out below, the room access applies only in the sleeping rooms and does not reach to the function space/ballroom level. We would like to be able to provide such access, but it would cost many, many thousands of dollars in hotel-imposed access fees to provide it.

That access is for sleeping rooms only. It does not extend to the convention space. This is sad and should be extended to all the rooms in my opinion.

Wolfgang:

Yeah, we know. It sucks. But the ballroom level is function space and hotels think they can charge a fortune for Internet access in such spaces. It is all the fault of business conventions that are willing to pay a fortune for it.