Posted on 05/03/2018 8:43:55 AM PDT by rktman
Trust me. The buffets are NOT a bargain anymore. Unless you’re going to gorge and then barf and gorge some more.
Been to Vegas once and parking was free. Have no desire to return...so I don’t have to worry about parking/resort fees.
HOWEVER...I’m currently binge-watching the Dennis Quaid/Michael Chicklas series “Vegas” on Prime...and it’s great. It’s set in 1960 and love the old cars (even if some of the prop cars are newer years).
We didn’t find out about the parking and report fees until we got there. You think the room costs you a certain amount then you check in. Surprise! As for parking we self parked and figured the hotel would validate. Surprise again!
And the restaurant prices are ridiculous. $30 for a hamburger, fries and two cokes.
So, the decline wouldn’t have anything to do with that mass slaughter and coverup, right?
The cruise industry is doing its part to RIP OFF travelers too. Nickel and dime-ing everyone at every turn. Greed is all that’s left in the world of sin.
It wouldn’t play a part in my decision to go. Did people stop going to NYC out of fear of planes flying into skyscrapers?
I remember Vegas as a place with cheap food (meant to keep you in the Casino gambling), free parking, good shows cheap and great ones at a price. I’m not a city person, so it wasn’t high on my list...but I could understand it.
Went a couple of years ago to show it to an exchange student. Meals were expensive, parking expensive, good shows expensive, and very crowded (so SOMEONE must like it). Me? I liked it better when the Mob ran Vegas.
“Resort fees” are false advertising and fraud, plain and simple.
If you’re not getting comped to stay at a casino hotel, you’re not doing it right.
” $30 for a hamburger, fries and two cokes.”
Close to the same price at Five-Guys.
Not a tax reason. It’s to get a better spot on the pages of the travel search engines, and also just plain “fine print” fraud.
I assume there's a tax reason that this sort of overhead is booked as a separate fee rather than rolled into the room charges. Why not a "fee" for electricity and water, too?
Maybe, but it makes it very hard to travel there for work. We do not get reimbursed for the resort fee. I usually end up taking a room with a higher total cost, just to avoid the fee.
And sheets, water glass, toilet paper, the little note pads and the pens next to the phones and.......
There's a trick where you slip a $20 in with your credit card when you check in to get an upgrade. It was on the internet so it might be so overused now that it's no longer a thing, but it's worth a try.
The California train to nowhere should have gone between LA and Vegas. If that had happened there would be a lot of people who wouldn't have to park a car.
Definitely not in a rush to return.
Thanks, that’s informative. I wasn’t looking at it from that angle.
Good point.
On cruises the advertised price is not what you pay. You get loaded with “taxes and fees” before your credit card is wiped clean.
Try to get them to itemize the taxes and fees — they won’t. I had to threaten a credit card dispute to get anywhere once.
Taxes and fees are ...
additional baggage fees
many cost of doing business with you
like the cost of checking you in at the terminal in the port — that’s a third party company, and billed to you as taxes and fees.
Security at ports is part of the separate fee, etc
Then you got mandatory gratuity. Not optional anymore.
You have a service issue and one cruise line forces you to wait until your trip is over and then you have to write the corporate office to try to get any tip fees back.
In the end a cruise will be 50 to 70% more costly than the adv price. Fraud allowed by off-shore registrations.
Disney in Orlando just announced last month that it will be charging daily parking fees of $20-$25 in its luxury resorts for hotel guests. That’s on top of importing foreign workers to replace Americans and raising ticket prices. The hourly workers are getting stiffed too.
I have no desire to return to DisneyWorld and I live 10 miles away.
Beg pardon — it is a form of tax fraud, as the “resort fee” itself isn’t subject to the two or three local hotel taxes, but that is a nice side benefit, not the reason they do it in the first place.
You’d think the local government would be on this like white on rice, but Las Vegas and Nevada government have been examples of unprincipled government for decades.
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