Originally Posted by Canarsie

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......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.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.