South Point Adds Resort Fee

Put the entire cost all together and call it the cost of the room...3/2 BJ to 6/5 BJ--resort fees---increased airfares----buffet increases----rent-a-car price increases---and I read somewhere they want to increase the hotel taxes to build a new stadium seems like Las Vegas is slowly but surely shooting itself in the foot. Way too many other places to go for relaxation and enjoyment that closer to home today. They might not stand up to Las Vegas standards for shows and entertainment (some LV shows are getting cheesy) but they can run a close second.

Resort fees are gradually becoming a nationwide industry practice.

Remember, The biggest reason that most of us found ourselves at Las Vegas Advisor is that we are cheap or just savvy Vegas vacationers. We are also a huge minority when it comes to consumers.
The vast majority of buyers are completely fooled by resort fees, baggage fees and the like. If this were not so they would have disappeared already.
Resort fees ARE marketing. It allows a bussiness to advertise a lower price to seem that they are competing with their competitors. Is it a low and despicable practice? sure it is. But that is what this country has come too.

It doesn't have to be that way. The Federal Government recently got rid of mandatory airfare addons. If it's mandatory, it's in the ticket price.

Clark County or, better, the State of Nevada simply need the political will to do the right thing here like USDOT did.

The purpose of a corporation is to maximize profits, and if Las Vegas hotels can do that by adjusting their offers in any way, then they must do so. If that includes resort fees, generous comps, 6:5 blackjack, or wonderfully loose video poker, so be it. And our condemnation or attaboys are pretty impotent under the circumstances; the market will inform them whether or not they made a good choice.

In my view, the ONLY problem with resort fees is that they are not fully and honestly disclosed up front. And since the resulting misleading prices mostly victimize tourists, states and local governments aren't terribly interested in correcting the situation.

The good news is that the market may correct this situation too. I am sure that I am not the only one who likes Kayak, because they disclose the fees more prominently, and would never consider booking through Expedia because they require a click or two before the sneaky fees are exposed to light.

Unfortunately, another site that fails to disclose resort fees up front along side the very first advertised rate is lasvegasadvisor.com. At the moment, when I'm looking to book a room, they won't be getting any of my clicks either.

You've got the right idea. What everyone could do in the hotel is go to the fitness center at 2:00. When they can't handle 3,000 or 4,000 people wanting to use it at the same time, demand your resort fees back.

Ray

We actually have a full list of resort fees on the Casinos & Hotel tab AND next to each deal on the Hotels Deals page (it's on the right side corner of each hotel name)

And that's better than most other sites.

But if I see the advertised rate say for the Aria on your front page (with no resort fee disclosure), I click to get to another LVA page (with no disclosure) and then click to the Aria's date selection page (with no disclosure), then to their availability page (with no disclosure), and finally to their pricing page, with the resort fee at last disclosed, albeit in relatively small print.

So it takes four clicks to learn about the resort fee by starting on the LVA homepage, one of the most honest and open websites anywhere. And that's the problem.

When you click and get to the second LVA page -- on the right hand side right next to the hotel name is the resort fee!

Three financial ripoffs that I have never accepted and never will; buying a mutual fund that charges a load fee, playing blackjack that only pays 6-5 for blackjacks, and staying at a hotel that charges a resort fee.