moondog

With all due respect, resort fees ARE relevant to this discussion, assuming the Aspen St. Regis charges them. While hotel owners and managers might think they are kosher, many of us customers do not care for them.

aCavalierInCoach

Yeah literally no consumer on earth agrees with you. You are hiding the mandatory price of a room, deliberately making it more difficult (and costly in time) to shop on price.

I have yet to see any coherent defense of why a mandatory part of the price to be paid shouldn't be displayed with the advertised rate.

nk15

We need a common sense consumer's protection act to regulate such abuses by the hotel industry, such as hidden fees, false price advertising, irrational cancellation fees, "walking" compensation, and the like.

Kacee

Unfortunately, we have now fully transitioned from an era of consumer protection legislation to corporate protection legislation.

PointWeasel

I have a client that types in all caps for days at a time because he is clueless.

If a Marriott property owner/licensee types in bold then I can only assume he/she is also clueless.

Its a private blog, don't cha know.

flyingeph12

hotelboy

I think it is pretty clear here...$100 plus $37.50

hotelboy

Give it 10 to 15 years and we will swing back...just like everything else...this is cyclical.

747FC

So a moderator says lets stay on track, and we ignore this directive at the risk of the thread shutting down. I really don't understand how anyone would want to put the thread at risk.

ETA: Well, except for a Marriott owner.

nacho

Unfortunately it's the case - hotels can basically set up whatever they want and points in our accounts are not actually owned by us as the chain can take it away whenever they like. It's not like everyone deliberately try to no-show. Things happened - a guest becomes ill that makes him/her unable to travel, flight being cancelled - things that are out of our control and our travel insurance doesn't cover things like this - you have to be really sick - so sick that you have to be hospitalized in order to get the cancellation insurance, they don't cover lost from flight delays either (you need to go to the airline to try to get it recovered and if you are not flying EU airlines/within the EU then you totally SOL). We live in Sweden and travel insurance is included in every home insurance policy but it's super stingy and our credit cards only waive the excess in certain areas. If we booked the hotel with points then we are also SOL - .

scubadu

You do understand moderators have the ability to simply remove off-topic posts without locking the entire thread, right? It doesn't have to be either/or.

Regards

nk15

No kidding, it is the systematic destruction and unraveling of civilization out there, piece by piece, but let's not get off topic...

747FC

I do.

mikebor

Dude go away. Seriously.

Antarius

except I have to click into it to see this. When I go to the list of hotels, this shows up at 100 while another may show up as 110 - this hotel is more expensive, but it takes a whole lot of clicks to find out.

I dont have a problem with unbundled fares for OPTIONAL things like checked bags or breakfast. These hidden fees are mandatory and designed to make comparative searching harder.

if it's so clear, why not eliminate the fee and just list your hotel at 137.50? Because it isn't clear and you know that.