Trouble connecting to Hotel Wifi

I have a 2011 Macbook pro with mountain lion and I am currently at a hotel where I am unable to connect to the wifi. To access you select the wifi that you want and open a browser and a login page should show up to allow you to sign in. I never get that page on Safari, Chrome or Firefox. I know it's in the settings, because if I load windows on this computer it works fine, but I would rather use OSX. Any ideas?
Thanks

From the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Network ▹ Advanced... ▹ DNS
Under DNS Servers you should have one or more numerical addresses, such as “192.168.1.1” or “10.0.0.1”. Delete those addresses, then, in the TCP/IP tab, click Renew DHCP Lease. Close the preference pane and save the changes. Try the sign-in procedure again.

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