Spending ~100 nights a year in a hotel necessitated a travel router. There's some off the shelf options available but I wanted to go with an offering from MikroTik to continue learning their ecosystem.
I've since been able to implement MikroTik gear at work in multiple different niche deployments, thanks in part to what I learned over a couple years of tinkering with this thing here and there.


The steps to configure, without terminal, are as follows:

1. Initiate Winbox connection over ethernet
2. Set to CPE mode in quickset
3. Ensure LAN and WLAN ports are in same bridge
4. Make a Virtual interface hung off the WLAN interface
5. Configure the Virtual interface with the security and SSID settings you want to connect
6. Set a security profile for DefaultFailover
7. Set a NetWatch tool with a 60 second timer as /interface wireless set wlan1 mode=ap-bridge ssid=unconfigured security-profile=DefaultFailover
8. Go back to quickset, select the hotel SSID with greatest signal, connect
9. Wait while it connects, will likely get booted from Winbox (if you haven't a vew times already!)
10. Device should connect to hotel wifi, authenticate, and all devices that have that SSID saved will connect!

The big key to it is the NetWatch tool. This allows the router to reset to a default configuration that transmits an SSID of "Unconfigured" so you can reconnect to it. Without this, it will always hunt for the last SSID it was connected to, leaving you unable to reconnect wirelessly without resetting and reloading a backup.

Here's a link to the MikroTik forums with some more info from others who have used this router in a similar configuration: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=129398