Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave

This is quite normal. The "destination fee" is entirely up to the hotel's ways of working, and some rates have it - most of the public rates - and some don't. Most of my corporate rates do not have this sort of supplement, it's part of the negotiations (as in "do you want our business or do you not?"). And as is well known it's not part of full redemption stays, or at least it should not be so. You can sometimes find travel agency rates which specifically include or exclude the Destination Fee, along with quite a few rates where it is ambiguous. I imagine this is part of the reason for legislating for greater clarity on the display and deployment of nett rates. If the experience of Europe is anything to go by, as soon as that requirement for clarity becomes watertight these surcharges will melt away.