Exactly, and this is supposed to be a Relais & Chateaux sponsored resort.
It clearly indicates $335 per person based on High Season rates, with 40% added to Single Occupancy. So $470 is in fact, the nightly rate. $670 for Double Occupancy.
What is this per/person?? Either adjust to a flat $500 nightly or be straightforward and reflect the actual costs to book into each room class.
Is there a separarte discounted price for babies and dogs?? It seems entirely absurd and annoyingly inane to price rooms this way. If it's an all-inclusive package with dinners, then that should be a separate rate as any other reputable hotel would offer. I personally have no interest in a meal package as I like to explore the regional cuisine and wouldn't spend my vacation time meals in this particular dining room. So I'm still at a loss as to why any owner would feel it justifiable to fluctuate costs based on single and two-person occupancy, in a room/cottage suited and accommodating two people?! Who books into large lakeshore cottage suites at 5-star country inns alone, anyway?? I'd wager it's never happened here yet...
I completely understand the addition of 3rd and 4th person rates, etc. That would seem customary and most hotels would normally accept a certain number of guests per room class. But to advertise varying rates based on single or double occupancy in a luxury cottage accommodating that same number of guests is really off-putting to me, especially for a supposedly high end R&C Inn. I've yet to experience this at any hotel or resort I've visited so far, from the most exclusive boutique properties to the top end luxury hotel chains... It comes off entirely classless in my opinion.
Last edited by OliverB; Apr 28, 2011 at 7:48 am