Originally Posted by
stvr
As a Marriott Titanium I loathe resort fees. Every time I engage with them, especially on award stays, my hatred for the bonvoy program grows and grows.
As a Hyatt globalist, I adore resort fees! Others pay more and I pay less. The more resort fees the better. Resort fees everywhere. Resort fees at the Hyatt Place by the interstate please.
Wondering what lawyers think of this new resort fee regulation in CA:
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/t...%201%2C%202024.
On the one hand this seems bad as a globalist and multi-Hyatt California hotel user. On the other hand the law seems to be written so weakly as to not matter.
anyone else have a legal take? Please leave your OMNI takes about the merits of California style governmental regulation for another forum, thanks!
The legislation does not ban resort fees; it only bans
deceptive resort fees. The law simply requires that such fees be included in the initial price quoted by the hotelier. From the Frommer's article:
"The state is only banning the practice of hiding fees, not the act of charging them. Because resort fees are often taxed at different rates than the base hotel rate, there's plenty of space to argue that drip pricing is often abused as a tax dodge and shouldn't exist at all."
Source:
https://www.frommers.com/blogs/arthu...ected-and-when