Originally Posted by billdokes

So what you are saying is that you understand that there is a cost to have and maintain a parking facility, but it's only ok for Hotels to charge for it separately under certain circumstances?

There are all kinds of good business reasons for Hotel owners to un-bundle their charges and I expect we will see more and more of that...whether it be to match revenues to costs, to avoid giving points on ancillary charges, or to be able to post a lower nightly room rate on the plethora of websites that offer their product in order to snag a reservation from another property or protect one that would have gone to a competitor because of how that competitor chooses to price their product.

I don't get the argument that parking (or anything) should be free just because the location is suburban or 'located between 2 Interstates'. It probably should be lower than what is charged in the middle of a big city, but I don't have any issue with the notion that something that has a cost and a value should have a corresponding price.

If you don't like it, stay somewhere else, nobody is holding a gun to your head to stay at a particular property if you don't like the price or how that price is presented.