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Hotel resort fees, explained.
Short guides to the charge that is not in the price. Every figure in them is read from the hotels’ own websites or from our own measurements, with the date beside it, and none of them names a number we did not check.
- What is a resort fee, and why is it not in the price?A resort fee is a mandatory nightly charge the hotel collects on top of the rate you were quoted. Who charges it, what the rules require, how to find it first.16 September 2026
- Las Vegas resort fees: who charges, who doesn’t, how muchWhich Las Vegas hotels state a resort fee on their own websites, which state none, what the fee costs over a stay with the tax on top, and how to avoid it.23 September 2026
- Destination fee, facility fee, resort fee: one hotel chargeWhat a destination fee, facility fee, amenity fee or resort fee on a hotel bill is: one mandatory nightly charge by four names, and one question settles it.23 September 2026
- Why the same hotel room shows two prices on two sitesThe same room, the same dates, two totals. We measured why: some rates itemise the resort fee and others omit it, and cheapest-first prefers the omission.16 September 2026
- Hotels without resort fees, city by cityEvery hotel whose own website says it charges no resort fee, city by city, with its words and the date we read them, and the lowest fees where one is charged.23 September 2026
- Is a resort fee per room or per person?Counted from the fees hotels state on their own websites: how many say per room, how many say per person, and how many do not say.19 September 2026
- Is tax charged on a resort fee?How many hotels say tax is added on top of their resort fee, how many say nothing is added, and why the total you are shown may still leave the tax out.19 September 2026
- What does a resort fee cover?What hotels list as included in their resort fee, counted from their own websites: Wi-Fi, the gym, bottled water, calls, pool gear, parking and more.19 September 2026
- New York City hotel fee rule: what hotels still chargeNew York City’s rule on hotel fees, in force since 21 February 2026: what it requires, what it did not do, and what New York hotels’ own websites state today.23 September 2026
- Can a resort fee be waived? What hotels actually sayWhen hotels say their resort fee does not apply, quoted from their own pages, and why most of those cases are rates an ordinary traveller cannot book.23 September 2026
- What other fees do hotels charge besides the resort fee?The second mandatory charge some hotels name beside the resort fee: housekeeping, a worker ordinance, sustainability. Each quoted from the hotel’s own page.23 September 2026
- Resort fees by state: where they cost the mostWhat hotels state they charge, grouped by state, with the median a night and the share of hotels that charge one — and which of those states are a single city.20 September 2026
- Resort fee laws by state, and the federal ruleThe FTC’s hotel fee rule and the state laws requiring a hotel’s total price, each read from the government’s own text, and what they do not do.21 September 2026
- What is the Hilton mandatory charge per night?Hilton’s “mandatory charge per night”, quoted from its hotels’ own pages: what it costs a night, whether tax is added, and why it is not called a resort fee.23 September 2026
- What is the Texas state recovery fee at hotels?The “state recovery fee” some Texas hotels charge each night, quoted from their own pages, and what the state’s own hotel tax page says about who sets it.23 September 2026
- Destination fee: what it is and which hotels charge itWhat a destination fee on a hotel bill is, what it costs a night, what hotels say it covers, and every hotel whose own website states one, city by city.24 September 2026
- Hotel amenity fee: what it is and which hotels charge itWhat an amenity fee on a hotel bill is, what it costs a night, what hotels say it pays for, and every hotel whose own website states one, city by city.24 September 2026
- Marriott destination fee and resort fee, hotel by hotelWhich Marriott hotels state a destination fee or resort fee on their own pages, what each costs a night, and which say they charge no resort fee.24 September 2026
The hotels themselves
Each city page lists what every hotel we checked states on its own website: the fee, what it covers, whether tax is charged on it, the page it was read from and the date. A hotel we could not confirm is listed as not confirmed, never as free.
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The resort fee calculator totals a fee for your stay, tax included where the hotel states one. How we check a fee is the set of rules every page here follows, and all cities covers the ones without a fee dataset yet.