Last week I stayed in a hotel for 3 days at a said and done price that was still about $100 cheaper than this 2 night Airbnb’s base price, not even adding in their fees.
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Fal@yiffit.net 8 months agoAre you kidding? It’s totally common for hotels to charge 50 bucks a night in bullshit fees
Jamie@jamie.moe 8 months ago
Fal@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Ok? That tells us nothing without comparing location, etc.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have never had a hotel charge bullshit fees. Rental rate and tax are all I have ever paid.
witten@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lots of hotels tack on “amenity fees” or “resort fees” separate from those. It’s pretty obnoxious.
phx@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Parking (at a remote resort with no other reasonable way of accessing) comes to mind as one of the bullshit’ish fees I’ve had to pay, but most of the rest are usually fees passed up from the municipality etc
oleorun@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Big city mandatory valet comes to my mind.
RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
In the US it is common to have an amenities fee that you will only know, in most cases, the day of your check in. The fee applies whether you use the amenities or not.
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
California just passed a law banning any mandatory fee if it isn’t included in the advertised rates; the ban goes into force starting middle of next year.
frommers.com/…/california-bans-deceptive-resort-f…
That being said, I would imagine that there is some wiggle room on “mandatory”. Like, a hotel is going to be allowed to charge for use of items in a minibar, for example, and I don’t know what the bar is for notification that a given action will incur a fee.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s great for California.
Ambiorickx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.