I just heard about this today. I think it is absolutely absurd and appalling. Where does it end? Now it will be an extra $51 bucks added onto your daily room rate at Cesars and their sister hotels. Rio, which is far off the strip is going up to almost $40 extra per night, on top of the room rate, and taxes. Then when you add in parking fees, and the high cost for food in their resorts, what a turn-off (for us anyway). Maybe it's because growing up in So Cal we always used to see a LV getaway to be fun once in awhile without having to break the bank. We used to be able to get a room for less than half of the new Cesars resort fee during the summer. Of course I'm talking about the late 70's and early 80's. Times have surely changed.
I wish they would be honest about the price of staying in their "resort" and tack on the resort fee to the listed room rate they advertise. I have only been to vegas once since they started with the resort fees. I used to go twice a year. I'm on strike.
Dai
Oct 14th, 2019 06:25 PM
Originally Posted by ziggypop
(Post 17000689)
I wish they would be honest about the price of staying in their "resort" and tack on the resort fee to the listed room rate they advertise. I have only been to vegas once since they started with the resort fees. I used to go twice a year. I'm on strike.
I couldn't agree more with eliminating all together the resort fee. Just give us one price. It just pisses people off. I hadn't even realized that I was paying a resort fee in our hotel last year in NYC, until someone started a thread on it, which is when I went back and checked and read the fine print on the email confirmation. That was a surprise. I'm going to have to ask before booking so that I know I'm comparing prices with full understanding of all the charges.
If I were in a position to decide for a hotel group in LV, I'd say NO to resort fees, and I'd advertise the heck out of it, saying "we think resort fees are stupid". In fact I'd say NO to parking fees too, (at the very least to locals with ID-this is a perk which was removed by some hotels). I imagine that operating the one and only hotel on the strip with no resort/parking fees would be more alluring to many vacationers who would look to my hotel first for a vacancy.
AJPeabody
Oct 14th, 2019 06:41 PM
Hotels resort to resort fees to artificially lower the apparent price. People go to an internet site, put in their requirements, and sort by lowest price. Adding the resort fee back puts a hotel way down in the search.
