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This note on the Travelocity web page:
Starting Dec 3rd 2012 any guest arriving on or after January 1st, 2013 will be
charged $25 resort fee per room, per night upon arrival at The Cosmopolitan.
This resort fee will include the following amenities:
Unlimited Wi-Fi , Local
and long distance telephone calls (within the continental US), Fitness center
access (for registered guests) and
Tennis court access (based upon
availability)
This is a sad evolution from just two years ago when the marketing strategy was that this practice would be avoided because it irritated the customers, as reported in this Vegas Sun article:
Aiming to avoid irritating guests, Cosmo won
Ironically, the rack rate for seniors renting Eastside Cannery rooms on most M-T-W is $29.99 ( that is the entire cost of the room) and that room rate now includes amenities like free wifi, a coin laundry and no resort fee.
This still offers some hope that, at least in some venues,
what we see in advertising is what we pay on the bottom line when booked.
Let's hope the Downtown Grand
avoids this incidious practice.
In other places soon the resort fee will
be more than what the no resort free places charge for the room.
Starting Dec 3rd 2012 any guest arriving on or after January 1st, 2013 will be
charged $25 resort fee per room, per night upon arrival at The Cosmopolitan.
This resort fee will include the following amenities:
Unlimited Wi-Fi , Local
and long distance telephone calls (within the continental US), Fitness center
access (for registered guests) and
Tennis court access (based upon
availability)
This is a sad evolution from just two years ago when the marketing strategy was that this practice would be avoided because it irritated the customers, as reported in this Vegas Sun article:
Aiming to avoid irritating guests, Cosmo won
Ironically, the rack rate for seniors renting Eastside Cannery rooms on most M-T-W is $29.99 ( that is the entire cost of the room) and that room rate now includes amenities like free wifi, a coin laundry and no resort fee.
This still offers some hope that, at least in some venues,
what we see in advertising is what we pay on the bottom line when booked.
Let's hope the Downtown Grand
avoids this incidious practice.
In other places soon the resort fee will
be more than what the no resort free places charge for the room.
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