Not really. Most hotels have neither the tools nor the interest to look at what individual guests search for, and on modern HTTPS sites they couldn't read your Google searches anyway.
Hotel Wi-Fi is usually run by an outside provider whose job is keeping thousands of devices online. What gets logged is operational and marketing data: the name, room number or email you entered at the login page, your device identifier, when you connected and how much data you used. One guest Wi-Fi vendor notes that the login portal doesn't record browsing and that deep packet inspection is a separate product most hotels never buy. The email address you typed in is more likely to land in a marketing list than anyone is to study your searches.
When a hotel does pay attention
- Content filters. Some properties block categories like adult sites or piracy trackers, which works at the domain level, not by reading searches.
- Bandwidth hogs. If one device is saturating the network with torrents, staff may notice the traffic volume.
- Legal requests. Connection logs tied to your room can be handed to police with proper legal process, though they show domains and times, not search terms.
The search term itself stays private
Search engines use HTTPS, so the words you type travel encrypted. The hotel network could see that you connected to google.com, since the site name leaks in DNS and the TLS handshake, but not what you asked it. If even the list of domains feels like too much, a VPN hides that as well. Your search history is also stored by the search engine on your account, which is a bigger privacy question than the hotel.