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Hotels are horrible for this. This is what my itemized stay was for a single night: 2023-01-18 * Residence Inn expenses:travel:marriott 171.00 US

by imroot 4y ago

Hotels are horrible for this. This is what my itemized stay was for a single night: 2023-01-18 * Residence Inn expenses:travel:marriott 171.00 USD expenses:taxes:salestax:tx 10.26 USD expenses:taxes:salestax:tx:plano 11.97 USD ; city hotel tax expenses:fees:recovery 1.28 USD ; tax recovery fee expenses:fees:recovery 2.13 USD ; parking recovery fee expenses:taxes:salestax:tx .18 USD ; taxes on parking recovery fee. assets:checking -196.82 USD ; date: 1/20 A $2.13 "Parking Recovery Fee" is charged to cover the expense in building their parking garage...and then, they charge me another sales tax on top of the parking recovery fee, then charging me a recovery fee because they need to recover the credit card fees charged on the city and state sales tax items. Resort fees are also becoming more and more common, even in hotels that shouldn't need a "resort fee" -- if I'm staying at an Embassy Suites in the middle of nowhere, Iowa, why do I need to pay a resort fee?

version_five 4y ago
I once had a hotel charge me a $30 per night "urban fee" - literally it was called that- on top of the advertised nightly rate. It was for work travel so I just payed it. I emailed them (I know pointlessly) to tell them I was never coming back (it was a hotel i used to go to a lot) and they just ignored me. Imo it's criminal, and it also looks pathetic for the companies doing it. I have a company, and if I charged made-up fees to my clients after quoting them a price, they'd tell me to get lost and I'd lose their business. You can always tell who has inappropriate market power
iceTA 4y ago
Ah, a fellow (h)ledger/beancount user :)
jen20 4y ago
> why do I need to pay a resort fee? Two reasons, neither of which is acceptable in my mind: 1: to reduce the price shown in aggregator websites (as the original article talks about) 2: to enact a stealth reduction in the value of points, since you cannot stay simply by redeeming them.

by imroot 4y ago

version_five 4y ago

I once had a hotel charge me a $30 per night "urban fee" - literally it was called that- on top of the advertised nightly rate. It was for work travel so I just payed it. I emailed them (I know pointlessly) to tell them I was never coming back (it was a hotel i used to go to a lot) and they just ignored me. Imo it's criminal, and it also looks pathetic for the companies doing it. I have a company, and if I charged made-up fees to my clients after quoting them a price, they'd tell me to get lost and I'd lose their business. You can always tell who has inappropriate market power

iceTA 4y ago

Ah, a fellow (h)ledger/beancount user :)

jen20 4y ago

> why do I need to pay a resort fee? Two reasons, neither of which is acceptable in my mind: 1: to reduce the price shown in aggregator websites (as the original article talks about) 2: to enact a stealth reduction in the value of points, since you cannot stay simply by redeeming them.