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Old Feb 14, 2013 | 6:52 am
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Personally I don't think $35 is low (originally typed 30, but its 35). Resort fees are junk fees and just used to jack up the effective room rate. Used to be $25 which I thought was absurd, since you only get 2 bottles of water, newspaper, the gym, and beach chairs. You get access to the beach and gym anyway at the hotel.
Now its $10 more and you get "free" internet, which I also get anyway as a Plat.

My point is, resort fees in general are a trash fee, and they're getting sneakier at lumping more stuff into the mandatory fee that gold and plat would get for free previously.
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