After doing some browsing, I found 3 properties that don't charge the pesky fee. I looked at the reward options too. It seems that my expectations were lofty. Getting a reward can be easy...assuming your earnings style is points and points, as a gold you egt 17.5 points per dollar of hotel spend...as for other charges, food Etc. i may get ome points for that also, but as always YMMV.