Originally Posted by ryanp

As has been discussed elsewhere on FT, this is actually not a robbery of guests. In the US, resort fees are treated differently from the room rate for tax purposes: The hotel has to pay less taxes on resort fees.

Lower taxes -> lower costs of room provision -> one would expect the hotel and guests to share/split the benefit from the cost saving.

Obviously, another factor is that fees make hotel prices less transparent. Still, I think it's an oversimplification to state resort fees = robbery.