South Point Adds Resort Fee

$12.50 a day plus tax, for the privilege of stuff like 24-hour complimentary parking (they actually listed that as a benefit! How generous!). Stupid.

In a matter of months I expect the remaining few tourists who refuse on principle to expose themselves to resort fees will be forced into sharing rooms at the Motel 6 on Tropicana, where everthing extra is ala carte (extra soap? 20 cents!).

This is getting to be ridiculous. I don't pay any resort fees and it still pisses me off. Why don't they just raise the price of the rooms to include everything and be done with it.
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As an aside, I just saw an ad on Priceline.com which showed a room in Vegas for $18 which included free breakfast and internet and pets allowed. Said it was a hotel with casino. Anyone have any idea who that might be?

Here's what they include. It's a 1 star hotel between Russel Rd and Sahara.


Free Breakfast
Free Internet
Indoor or Outdoor Pool

Pets Allowed
Restaurant
Casino

When are the people going to rise up and protest these fees? We should organize and start calling these hotels and start to make reservations and then when they tell us there's a resort fee, cancel the reservation. If enough of us do that...maybe they'll rethink their resort fees and change their minds.

It reminds me of a recent "I Love Lucy" show I saw. When Ricky got fired from the Tropicana, Lucy, Ethel and Fred kept calling and making reservations at the Trop. Well they'd come to the Trop and get seated, but when they found out Ricky wasn't performing, they walked out. They kept on doing this with different disquises and kept on walking out when they found out Ricky wasn't performing. That's what we should do with these hotels.

I think that "Lucy" show was at the Havana Tropicana.
As to resort fees Terrible's and just about every place downtown are the places to go. No resort fees, great food specials and better slots and VP.
F*** the Strip.

Hmm, using a trick done in an I Love Lucy episode to eliminate resort fees? It sounds crazy, but this just might work.

These fees are not going to go away. It's marketing and it works. For every frugal consumer who refuses to go along with the scheme of resort fees (or fuel surcharge, or baggage fee or whatever else they come up with) there are at least a thousand customers who will think they are getting a great price and blindly pay the fees. I fully expect to see bagging and cart fees tagged onto our grocery store bills soon.
It is up to us to be sure we know about ALL the extra fees and use that knowledge to know the true final cost and make our purchase decisions accordingly.
Now, if our government wants to protect the stupid and/or lazy consumer then a law could be passed to insure merchants fully disclose the entire end price in their advertisements and quotes. I would rather go along with the resort fees knowing that there will always be merchants that will not use tacked on fees as a marketing scheme in itself.
The words "buyer beware" should be applied to every purchase we make.

Oh, and if I remember correctly. That was quite the fiasco Lucy and Ethel had with their little plan.

I"ll bet it was the Copa, not the Trop. And they should have tracked grape juice all over the carpet too.

Maybe they tracked chocolates...



...or vitameatavegamin?

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently did that successfully with regard to airline fares, requiring the fares to incorporate all those pesky mandatory add-ons.

I wish the State of Nevada would do the same thing for hotel prices. It's fairly easy for customers to accommodate resort fees into their planning, but why should they have to? It just gives the state's key industry a bad image.

Show me one person who thinks paying for baggage on an airplane is getting "a great price".

Crap like this has become industry collusion. It's not "marketing" in any meaning of that word. It's taking advantage of customers just because other entities are getting away with it.

The list of supposed added benefits related to Vegas resort charges are pretty much the same as you can get at your average Super 8 for free, except for spa access. I probably wouldn't want access to a Super 8 spa either. The resort fees are a BS tax on the traveler.