Comments on: Vegas "Resort Fees" and Their Effect on Tourism

By: ROBERT

ROBERT — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:49:00 +0000

MONTE CARLO RAISE THEIR ROOM RATES AND 9.99 A DAY RESORT FEE. I WILL NOT BE STAYING.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:51:21 +0000

agreed. I refuse to stay at any hotel that charges these inane fees and if they do, I will contest them with my credit card company.

By: Ben jammin

Ben jammin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:58:58 +0000

Unless it is CLEARY and reasonably stated on web site at time of booking, resort fees can be waived. Threaten to contact your credit card company and have the entire bill disputed. This is a hassle foir the casino to pursue, so in most cases they will waive the fee. Don’t expect to get invited back, but then why would you want to go bnack to a place that rips you off at the onset.

By: RG

RG — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:40:45 +0000

Another great piece on an obvious target, but one that needs to be addressed. It reminds me of when Bob Stupak paid a guy 1 million dollars to base jump off the Vegas World on to a large air filled landing pad. The guy ended up getting 10,000.00 after the 990,000.00 “Landing fee” was applied. Gotta love the Stup

By: joelmama

joelmama — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:17:26 +0000

These surcharges are just another place where the de-coupling of service from prices is annoying. Another one that I hate I think even more is the automatic adding of a tip to a restaurant bill if the party is of a certain size. Was recently at a place that added 20% to the bill for this. They don’t make it obvious or point this out (hoping for a double tip maybe?). I told the manager that I wouldn’t return. I always leave a good tip of about 20% when service is good and even when it is bad leave about 15%. But I wannt to control this and not have it dictated. If they want to mandate an amount add it to the price of the food and tell us no tipping is needed, because we pay our servers what they are worth. Of course this will never be the case.

Also Rex, have you launched a duece big enough that when you put your belt back on you had to tighten it up a notch?

By: Jim W

Jim W — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:01:47 +0000

Hence the reason I refuse to stay at the Luxor again. The wife and I were there in September, and had a great time, we played enough (or lost enough that we had 7 nights comp’d, however upon check out I was informed of a $3.00 per day telephone surcharge…three friggin bucks a day to have a phone in my room whether we used it or not! You also don’t have the option for future trips of requesting a room without a phone because I asked.

Anyway a great trip, a nice hotel and we were treated very well but there is not a hope in hell I will stay there again because I felt like we were being taken for suckers. We were back In Vegas in December and will be there again in May and July and all things being equal would have stayed and gambled at the Luxor, but I just can’t forgive them for the $21.00 they charged me for a phone. I hope they put it to good use because I’m guessing it cost them thousands in lost gambling revenue, not to mention not eating in their restaurants or buying from their stores

Penny wise and pound foolish indeed.

By: blueboar

blueboar — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:18:50 +0000

Back in the day of the “energy surcharge”, I used to do the same as you did, Rex; leave every damn light and tv on as much as possible.

Just tell me up front what my damn room costs. Or give me some choices. If I want to buy one of the hotel’s $5 bottles of water that they put in the room out of “concern” for my “convenience”, I’ll buy it. Same with a damn newspaper.

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Besides “Resort Fees”, there’s something else in the works out there that I think could annoy people a bit. It’s my understanding that the good people of Nevada and your Assembly have voted to raise hotel room taxes by about a third more.

Yeah, that sounds like a hell of a plan during a recession. Stick it to the tourist just a bit more. Can we at least get a reach around?

By: Shelly Smith

Shelly Smith — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:14:54 +0000

Las Vegas is well known for its night life, resorts and casinos. After reading from your blog that the surcharges are increased in resorts we can easily point out that it will effect tourism as well as casinos in Vegas. The increment in the surcharges will surely curtail the number of tourists and only people belonging to high economic background will visit these resorts and it will surely ignore the middle-working class people.
Shelly Smith.

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By: elvis

elvis — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:09:33 +0000

The problem is bigger than the hotels resort fees – every city, county and state adds an extra ‘tax’ to hotel stay. In any other city, this is directed at business customers who don’t have time to care about the nickel/dime shake down. Vegas has lot of tourists that can not expense these fees.

Every resort should advertise their entire price to the customer.

The Four Seasons customers have access to MB pools. FS customers do not pay resort fees, MB customers do.

Realize I’m paying more staying at the FS, but the point is that FS advertises their hotel and all amenities at a price and I pay that price.

If the City, County, Hotel… is going to add fees – make it know or optional

They also charge $25 to go to the gym – but then I have a choice.

By: LisaB

LisaB — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:09:30 +0000

Excellent post. As always, I love your writing style and insight. Thanks.