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That's because people want it sorted by price ascending, and you must be near the top of that list for the customer to even see the offering. So they show an ar
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
That's because people want it sorted by price ascending, and you must be near the top of that list for the customer to even see the offering. So they show an artificially low price. At the hotel's own site, there is no such competition.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoHotels are not choosing to not display the total price in third party websites, it is the third party website that is choosing to obfuscate prices.
- listenallyall 3y agoBut the hotel is the one charging a "resort fee" in the first place. If such a fee didn't exist, the 3rd party website wouldn't have anything to obfuscate.
- figassis 3y agoI don’t think this is a valid argument. Airbnb specifically calls out including cleaning fees in these total, but this is something that affects small owners by default. The choice of cracking down on cleaning fees but not on resort fee? Purely on Airbnb. Moreover, when a host charges a cleaning see, it’s not the fee plus a tax on that fee, it’s just the fee. Hotels will tax you on each separate fee they add, so you really can’t trust that what you pay on Airbnb won’t balloon to 2x.