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Originally Posted by borg23
No if I don't want to pay the resort fee don't use any of the **** the resort fee includes.
That would be fair.
So if they just added the amount of the resort fee into the room rate it would be fair to charge that rate even to people who don't use all the amenities? Or would it be deceiptful and unethical not to then discount the rate for people who don't use them?
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Intentionally showing an artificially low price on hotel search sites is deceptive.
It would seem to me that your objection should be with the search site that doesn't factor those fees into their results.
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So is charging me for things I don't want or use.
They only charge you for the things you agree to pay for. If you don't want to pay what they charge you are free to take your business elsewhere. If they simply factor those things into the base price you would still be paying for things you don't want or use.
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Notice with parking they charge people who actually park their for parking not people who dont.
You do know there are hotels that charge a parking fee whether or not you use their parking?
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And there absolutely was a time and it lasted a while where you wouldn't be told how much the fee was until you went to check in.
And if that happened to you I would agree that was unethical and deceitful. But since that isn't the practice we are talking about in the current situation it is irrelevant to whether such fees as they are now disclosed are unethical or deceiptful.
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I've also,booked room showing the resort fee is x dollars for a room months down the road and when I check in they try and charge me a new higher resort fee.
and if that in fact happened intentionally as opposed to an error I would agree it was unethical and deceiptful. But again not relevant to your general position that resort fees are inherently unethical and deceiptful. If you booked a room at a given base rate and when you got there they tried to charge you a higher base rate that would be unethical and deceiptful but it would mean charging people for a room is inherently unethical or deceiptful.