Originally Posted by
cfabar1
I may be in the minority, but I do also like being able to see what the cost is without the taxes and fees. It helps me determine whether something is a good points redemption or not - especially with resort properties where I am still going to have to pay some sort of “resort fee”, no matter how much I dislike it.
I have enjoyed being able to toggle. Can I still do that with the new system?
Longer term, I'd think this change will cause hotels to get rid of resort fees since there wouldn’t be much incentive to have them.
It will be interesting to see how this change is handled for OTAs, as they're not bound by this settlement. You'd think Marriott would want to make OTAs include resort fees in the rate so that people aren't confused into not booking direct because they think the OTA rate is lower.