Hotel WIFI and VPN DNS conflict

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I have a somewhat annoying issue - I'm connecting to a hotel that has a wifi which seems to have a address collision with my work VPN's DNS.

Firstly, I use a Nord VPN on the Beryl AX - this issue appears only when using Wireguard as VPN host/method and does not appear on OpenVPN host. I obviously would prefer to use Wireguard for better performance.

The actual issue happens on laptop connected to Beryl AX - work VPN DNS is hosted on on (for example 10.0.10.10) and WIFI in the hotel uses 10.0.10.x range for addresses and this address is taken by some device on the hotel's network.

This is causing issues with resolving webistes on the company VPN as the DNS simply does not work as it seems to try to access that device on the hotel's network and not remote VPN of the company. Obviously asking work or hotel to change network ranges is not an option.

Any ideas how to get it working correctly with Wireguard on the router?

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Only way: Change your WireGuard VPN network to some other network, don't use pretty common ones like 192.168.178.x, 192.168.1.x, 10.10.10.x and so on.

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Thank you for the suggestion!
Could you point me in the right direction where this could be updated as I was unable to figure it out myself.

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The configuration needs to be set on the server side and than a new profile for the clients needed to be generated.

I don't know if or how NordVPN provides an option to change the used Subnet. Maybe this how-to helps: How to connect to the dedicated IP by NordVPN on GL.iNet routers? - GL.iNet Router Docs 4 (using another endpoint?)
I really doubt your company will change the work VPN Subnet (except you are the CEO or only VPN user or similar edge case). But maybe they have an alternative way in.

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