[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by von949

I thought those properties charged a FSE fee instead?


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AFAIK, that cost is built into the price of the room. In other words, I have not seen an itemized cost for FSE, and my per night charges where always the same in the end as what they were at the time of booking. (at 4Q and MSS)

El Cortez and Downtown Grand should not have these fees, of course, as they are not under the canopy.

I do realize this thread was about resort fees on the strip, but I was just pointing out that there are tourist properties that do not charge them.

[cowherjaw]

Originally Posted by BBMW

Because those are paid to a third party (the gov't.) If it's you're property, and you charge a fixed fee to everyone who rents a room, it's effectively part of the rate, so it should be expressed as such.

Note the reason why they do this. They want the rate to appear as low as possible on the on line sites, while being able to effectively charge you more. Also, it's a way of allowing them to wholesale rooms to consolidators, while still being able to charge the guest directly. It's pretty patently false advertising.

I think that is the main reason they do it. They have found a way to save commissions and risked upsetting their customers; however, Caesars held out from doing so until they did their homework on it and pretty much found out that either vin general, people don't care and the ones that did aren't necessarily people they feel they are losing much business from. If someone makes the decision to stay on Fremont street and take the bus to the strip because they are opposed to the resort fee from the Quad, they don't lose a lot of sleep over that particular revenue loss.

I disagree on the false advertising part. Every travel site and resort property I frequent makes these fees very visible ( and I also disagree that they couldn't do that with government taxes and other fees as well).

I get why some people have a bad taste in their mouth about them but I stop short of calling it false advertising.

[aardogfsu]

It's all marketing. A hotel that advertises $39 a night with a $15 resort fee will be booked out before the hotel down the street who advertises $54 a night a $0 resort fee.

Once the very first hotel started with the resort fee to make the price per night look cheaper, the others had to follow.

[von949]

Originally Posted by aardogfsu

It's all marketing. A hotel that advertises $39 a night with a $15 resort fee will be booked out before the hotel down the street who advertises $54 a night a $0 resort fee.

Once the very first hotel started with the resort fee to make the price per night look cheaper, the others had to follow.

I have seen it where hotel cost plus resort fee equal less than the hotel down the street. But some consumers really only want to pay that "$39". That's it, not a penny more.

Basically, don't use the "sort by price feature".




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[orca17]

Originally Posted by aardogfsu

It's all marketing. A hotel that advertises $39 a night with a $15 resort fee will be booked out before the hotel down the street who advertises $54 a night a $0 resort fee.

Once the very first hotel started with the resort fee to make the price per night look cheaper, the others had to follow.

This is precisely it. It is a way for a hotel to appear to be charging a lower nightly rate than they actually are. I ran into this when I booked in advance on Hotels.com for a trip to Reno last Thanksgiving. There was no mention whatsoever of resort fees when I booked, but I was charged $11 per day for what was supposedly a pre-paid room (plus a $50 daily amenities charge because I paid with a debit card - which was refunded when I checked out, but they still tied up the cash in my bank for three days).

[airics]

Big deal...outside of Vegas can you get for $50? A motel 6?

[ElleTea]

They leave the light on for you.

[MountainGuy74]

When we stayed at Excalibur a couple of weeks ago there was a resort fee but we were also given 20 dollars food and beverage vouchers so even though we had to pay a fee we got some of it back with the voucher.

[von949]

Originally Posted by MountainGuy74

When we stayed at Excalibur a couple of weeks ago there was a resort fee but we were also given 20 dollars food and beverage vouchers so even though we had to pay a fee we got some of it back with the voucher.

They probably just raised the room rates by $20, then pass out $20 vouchers.

Good deal or good marketing?


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[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by von949

They probably just raised the room rates by $20, then pass out $20 vouchers.

Good deal or good marketing?


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If one feels like it is a good deal, it is. If not, it isn't. Marketing is all about how it makes you feel.