Originally Posted by
fr33b13
Notice some hotels have rates (e.g. gov rate or amex business card rate) that exclude the destination fee. If only one could still utilize the benefits of the destination fee using those rates like Hyatt.
I suppose it depends on what's included in the fee. If it's just stuff like "internet access" and "towels at the pool," then everyone probably gets them, as it would be more expensive to keep track of who paid the resort fee and who didn't. But, if it's something like "the $35/day destination fee includes $35/day of F&B credit," that's unlikely to be provided to anyone that doesn't pay the fee. My one personal example of this was two rooms at the Marriot Marquis Times Square, one on a regular rate and one on a government rate. The government rate room didn't pay the resort fee, and didn't get the F&B credit. Although I only have a personal sample size of 1, I'd be very surprised if any other property provided a substantial F&B credit that's part of the resort/destination fee to anyone that didn't pay the fee.