Are resort fees like a tax? If so, should rich people pay more?

And some people like to stay in suites. The Nevada room tax is a TAX. The resort fee is not a tax and is nothing more than a means of hiding extra costs that the hotel would like to charge, but not show in their advertised price.

I've chosen to stay in resort fee free hotels the past 3 trips to Vegas but I don't care how others spend their money and surely don't think I'm smarter than the resort fee paying "idiots" at the Wynn. Wynn for $1 with a $80 resort fee and I'm a Wynn person. I can do the math!

Bill's Gambling Hall - consistently rated in the top 20 hotels on www.trip advisor.com for Las Vegas with a central strip location and good prices.

Also stayed recently at off strip locations like Eastside Cannery and I have never seen a resort fee.

I must be "rich" as I avoid resort fee "taxes"

Bill's? I've stayed there but I don't brag about it.

Someone needs to page Dewey on this topic. Lol

Maybe I'm not "rich" after all!


I wasn't bragging about the luxury of Bills but the value for the money and the lack of resort fees.

Value for the money indeed at Bill's.

I miss Dewey. He is so passionate about resort fees but never calls anyone an idiot.

Where else on the strip can you walk out of your room and be walking on the strip in less than two minutes?

Thank you, I would rather not be referred to as an idiot for choosing to stay at a hotel with a resort fee. I have always had it waived or comped however you may wish to look at it.

No.

They are a service marketed to hotel guests as part of a consumer-unfriendly scheme to obscure the true cost of accommodations.

Jurisdictions where these fees are sold would be wise to deem them illegal, since many travelers apparently fail factor them into the bargain they strike when choosing a place to stay. Unfortunately, consumer protection is a dying practice in much of America, so the burden falls on customers to go to the hassle of educating themselves to avoid yet another politcally-sanctioned ripoff.

A tax is a sum of money demanded by a government.

What a dumb thread.