friend visiting LAS next week sent me this useful link. hotels with no resort fees @ the bottom of page,,,,,,,,
Resort Fee Popup
Interesting, but after driving to Death Valley, Yosemite, and other parks between - 1,000 miles in 6 days, we don't want to commute from some outlying hotel. They want to stay on the Strip. If we were flying out of Lubbock, I might just come back 2 nights early and miss that part - but we're driving down to Abilene to save on air, and I might as well try to enjoy Vegas with them.
You guys have it all wrong. The resort fee is a way for the hotel to avoid paying hotel tax.
So that's how a hotel sale for $45/night becomes $90/night with taxes and fees?
They are taking this Resort Fee game to new levels here.
I'm trying to book here, and yeah yeah - some of you say to book direct with the hotel.
LISTEN: Sometime it costs more to book at the hotel's own site! I have a large number of tabs open so I can compare Hotel.com rates with direct rates side beside, for a few hotels - and direct can be a lot more than thru Hotel.com! They don't like us looking too long and hard tho and a tab will delete info after a few minutes.
I narrowed it down to Treasure Island, but the online sites didn't give me all the info so I phone - and that helped, but it got off to a bad start:
I WILL NOT PRESS #1 FOR ENGLISH IN THIS COUNTRY, unless I am dealing with an American Indian property - as I guess they might have a right to ask for such. My objections meant I had to press 0, then the usual next menu - so I didn't accomplish anything there, but it's a personal issue.
After that, the agent was quite helpful.
$14/night cheaper at Hotel.com than direct with the hotel. (For those who keep telling others it's always cheaper to book direct, you're wrong - but I am sure the hotels love you. :kiss2: )