Originally Posted by
rylan
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.
Complete garbage and a nickel-and-dime way to treat your customers.
The "Resort Fee" is for stuff that should be included in the price already! It's already there, right? Maybe you do internet a-la-carte, but everything else . . . another scam.
ESPECIALLY when it is mandatory. If it is mandatory, then it is PART OF THE ROOM RATE, and should be stated and included as such.
Resort fees are like bag fees with the airlines. Paying for something that should already be included.