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Resort fees typically cover in-room Wi-Fi and local phone calls as well as access to fitness centers and swimming pools. Of course, the fee is charged whether or not you use the amenities.

I assume there's a tax reason that this sort of overhead is booked as a separate fee rather than rolled into the room charges. Why not a "fee" for electricity and water, too?

4 posted on 05/03/2018 8:48:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)

Not a tax reason. It’s to get a better spot on the pages of the travel search engines, and also just plain “fine print” fraud.

31 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:33 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)

I assume there's a tax reason that this sort of overhead is booked as a separate fee rather than rolled into the room charges. Why not a "fee" for electricity and water, too?

Maybe, but it makes it very hard to travel there for work. We do not get reimbursed for the resort fee. I usually end up taking a room with a higher total cost, just to avoid the fee.

32 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:55 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)

And sheets, water glass, toilet paper, the little note pads and the pens next to the phones and.......

33 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:56 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")

Beg pardon — it is a form of tax fraud, as the “resort fee” itself isn’t subject to the two or three local hotel taxes, but that is a nice side benefit, not the reason they do it in the first place.

You’d think the local government would be on this like white on rice, but Las Vegas and Nevada government have been examples of unprincipled government for decades.

40 posted on 05/03/2018 9:14:58 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)

Why not a "fee" for electricity and water, too?

"Let's see... You flushed the toilet three... no, make that four times... That'll be $36, please!"

Regards,

100 posted on 05/03/2018 10:38:02 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)

“I assume there’s a tax reason that this sort of overhead is booked as a separate fee rather than rolled into the room charges. “

nothing to do with taxes ... it’s so they can offer what looks like cheap room rates on all the hotel booking sites ... AND force additional payment on top of all of the advertised rates on all of the all-in-one packages ... just good ol’ fashioned gouging, like th old undercoating scam on a new car ...

120 posted on 05/03/2018 11:48:06 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))

Hey chick,
What really gauls me is to stay at a high priced swanky hotel and they charge you some extra fee for Wi-fi.
Or stay at a motel 6 and it is comped.
What the heck?

142 posted on 05/03/2018 2:38:53 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Criminals at F.B.I., Justice Dept, I.R.S and No one taken out in cuffs? Federal gub mint is crappola)