As we came to expect the tele in the hotel was from the ark, huge great box thing, lol so tried it in a friends tele which did have HDMI socket and WOW, Brilliant as you said best buy i've had in a long time.
Back at the hotel i invested in Expat . net to fooled the laptop it was in UK so could watch all the uk stuff she wanted to see. Soaps mostly but i did get to watch the Grand prix so not all bad.
Expat is only £5 a month so well worth it until we get over there and buy a new Tele to watch the Apple Tv on.