Originally Posted by
seat38a
So lately I have been seeing a trend where the whole amount of the destination fee is being given as daily food and beverage credit plus other stuff that I really don't care about. The daily full amount of the fee as food and beverage credit, I'm a lot less annoyed with. My last stay was at the New Orleans Marriott and I was able to use the daily $25.00 credit at pretty much any place in the hotel that sold food or drinks including the Starbucks, and their pretty extensive grab and go / sundry mart.
How do you all feel about this? Are you less annoyed like me when you get to use it full amount daily for food and beverage?
This mandatory destination fee is unfair to guests who are required to pay it but do not want to use it at any of the places in the hotel that sell food and beverages. That has always been the problem with mandatory fees — starting with...
Originally Posted by
Kacee
the "free basket-weaving seminar" type of nonsense
...as well as free local telephone calls, a free newspaper, free use of the water in the bathroom, free electricity, and free breathing of the air.
Originally Posted by
SP03
It just replaced one type of annoyance with another. The credit is often only usable on the day of the stay, not the next day, so you can’t use it towards breakfast (unless you have a multiple night stays and even then, you can’t use it on the last day for breakfast).
It doesn’t change the fact resort fee is a scam.
I completely agree.
Mandatory fees at hotel and resort properties should be illegal and completely abolished. All they do is set the advertised room rate of a hotel or resort property at an artificially low level that is purposely designed to deceive the customer into choosing to stay there versus a different lodging option.