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Old Nov 30, 2018 | 1:41 am
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lo2e
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iggyray, I'm going to alert a mod to move your post to the "Online Travel Booking and Bidding" forum here on FT (which is where discussion about Priceline typically appears), but a few things about your post:

Priceline does disclose that there might be extra fees, even if they don't state it on that "Review Your Request" page. If you click on Taxes and Service Fees a little box will pop up that includes the following:
Depending on the property you stay at you may also be charged (i) certain mandatory hotel specific service fees, for example, resort fees (which typically apply to resort type destinations and, if applicable, may range from $10 to $40 per day), energy surcharges, newspaper delivery fees, in-room safe fees, tourism fees, or housekeeping fees and/or (ii) certain optional incidental fees, for example, parking charges, minibar charges, phone calls, room service and movie rentals, etc. These charges, if applicable, will be payable by you to the hotel directly at checkout.
That said, we are definitely not fans of resort fees here and while it has been challenged before, the hotels are still allowed to do it (for whatever stupid reason). Your best bet might be to challenge the resort fee when you get to your hotel, possibly by stating that you have no intention to use any of the amenities that the resort fee is meant to pay for. This has worked at some properties, not sure if it will work for either of the ones you've booked.

I hope that's helpful, somewhat.

On a semi-unrelated note, the images contain your real name, just so you're aware. If you're okay with that then feel free to leave it, but if not, you might want to try to hide your name on the images or remove the images from your post.
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