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

Chill out chill - this is the longest thread in days and it is not even political!

If you a thread that is not "dumb" feel free to start your own!

I've never paid a resort fee, wouldn't care if I did but find quotes like this illustrative: "the burden falls on customers to go to the hassle of educating themselves "
It's a cruel world when people have to take care of themselves....

As Homer said edumacation is good!

Next time you board an airplane, contemplate how long you spent making sure there's jetfuel in the tank, that the tail's right aileron is properly balanced, and that the pilot's not Eric Rudolph.

Because even though you bought a ticket on that flight, you did nothing to educate yourself on any of that: the government assumed those functions, because it's crazy inefficient for individual passengers to do so themselves.

The market for Las Vegas hotel rooms would be more efficient if travelers could quickly assess the true price of the accommodations they're choosing from.

boy somebody should start a web site for that and call it Las Vegas Advisor!

Airplane safety, and perhaps medicine & food industry are comparable to resort fees? I get it. The more nanny the better.
My old boss used to repeat "ya' pays yur money and takes yur chances." Leave me free to choose or be confused. Free being the operant word.

I don't feel that way. I definitely have limits. But resort fees should be banned.

The casinos have concluded they can trick their customers with resort fees. That's why they're doing it. Maybe they don't trick you or me, but they trick lots of people.

No good comes from resort fees. They distort the market for hotel rooms.

Need an example? People look at a $70 room rate at one place and an $80 room rate at a comparable place and choose the $70 one, not realizing that it's really a $90 place because of its mandatory $20 resort fee.

The market should not encourage such shennanigans where no good comes from it. In fact, judging from the attitudes we see even among the educated readers of these boards, resort fees discourage people from coming to Las Vegas and diminish the town's reputation. Moreover, more straigtforward hotels are punished if they don't adopt deceptive resort fees. I bet 70 percent or more of the hotel rooms on the strip now come with a resort fee.

For myself, I am educated about resort fees and perfectly able to factor them in when I choose where to stay. But most aren't. And nor should they be required to ferret out these hidden charges on their own. What a waste of time and effort, for nothing!

If I was a Nevadan, I'd urge my legislators and governor to pass legislation banning resort fees.

CET makes it a marketing angle to advertise "no resort fees".

Earth to Dewey!

Wow, how many days was that, without an Eric Rudolph reference? Was that possibly a veiled reference to the NPR v. Juan Williams flap? Did Eric Rudolph ever stay at Bill's? Is this entire thread merely a tongue-in-cheek jab at Dale Bratcher?