Unlike when we are “on vacation” we knew there was going to be a lot of downtime. Our solution was to buy a couple of Roku streaming sticks. We are staying at places with two TVs.
The Roku sticks plug directly into the HDMI port of the TV and usually there is also a USB port on the TV that can power the Roku.
They recently added the ability to work with captive portals where you need to validate with the hotel’s wifi before being able to get internet access.