Hotels have started adding ‘resort fees’ in New York

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• N says:

  16 Jan16 January 08:55

  OT – any idea what time ba will publish their strike contingency plans?

• Mike says:

  16 Jan16 January 09:07

  I’ve been looking at hotels in Miami for Easter and it’s at epidemic proportions there. Hotels are expensive in Miami at the best of times but this resort fee is an outrage. Some of the hotels are charging $50 a day to cover wifi, chairs on the beach, beach towels and water. Ryanair without the wings.

  • Leo says:

    16 Jan16 January 10:51

    We paid a resort fee in South Beach which included the use of beach chairs, towels etc. Certainly some of the beach services there are run by third parties so you would have to pay to use them if not included in the resort fee anyway etc. I didn’t feel so bad about this and used the beach chairs accordingly – dawn till dusk! In Key West we paid a completely spurious resort fee where you got nothing above what I would have expected to have been included anyway. And we paid separately to use beach loungers!

• BASilverflyer says:

  16 Jan16 January 09:15

  I bagged one of the €640 J returns from AMS to HND in the QR sale. Raffles, was that an error fare or a genuine deal? Different bloggers have different views–what are the chances of this getting cancelled, when I can I safely book my positioning flights and hotels in Tokyo?

  • Rob says:

    16 Jan16 January 09:32

    Doesn’t seem to be an error – the very fact that it was running from Brussels and Amsterdam (both cities in small countries where Qatar is struggling to fill big aircraft) makes it look genuine.

    My only surprise is that it was Tokyo which is a high yield destination due to capacity constraints at the airport.

• Colin JE says:

  16 Jan16 January 09:16

  I ended up paying $20 a day at The Hudson (ghastly) in NY two years ago. It was only after a day or so that we found out it included a $10 credit in the bar every day plus wifi. Never mentioned on check in and you only got the bar credit if you charged drunks to your room.
  There was even another ‘tax’ levied on top, because they were near a conference centre.
  I think they should outlaw these fees. Or at least should require them to be included in the main quoted price.

• Jake says:

  16 Jan16 January 09:38

  Only a small % of New York hotels currently charge resort fees so they’re easily avoidable. Cities like Las Vegas, it’s a different story!

  OTA sites such as Expedia & Hotels.com are very clear. Booking.com has a nasty habit of excluding all local taxes to make their rates appear cheaper so be extra careful if you’re booking through them.

• Anna says:

  16 Jan16 January 09:59

  You could run a mini competition to name and shame the hotel with the highest resort fee! At the moment my Kimpton offering is ahead – but be assured we will be on those hobie cats and paddle boards all day long, getting the most out of our $60!

• PaulW says:

  16 Jan16 January 10:13

  Hmm I have a BA holiday booking that includes room only at that very same NW Crown Plazza Rob. I have a voucher for the stay – are they still going to try and scam me for this I wonder?

• Christian says:

  16 Jan16 January 10:14

  The Row Hotel in Times Square does it too. It was something like $22 a night. It’s purely so they can undercut the competition on comparison websites. Total cheek. I won’t stay there again because of it. Once bitten and all that.

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