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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.

See room prices for Dec 21 – Dec 24, with every fee counted, in:

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.October 13, 2026
Do all Las Vegas hotels charge a resort fee?Whether every Las Vegas hotel charges a resort fee, the hotel tax rate and what it adds, and how to avoid paying one, in hotels’ and governments’ own words.September 29, 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.October 5, 2026
Why the same hotel room shows two prices on two sitesThe same room, the same dates, two totals. We measured why: some rates itemize the resort fee and others omit it, and cheapest-first prefers the omission.September 16, 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.September 23, 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.September 19, 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.September 19, 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.September 19, 2026
New York City hotel fee rule: what hotels still chargeNew York City’s rule on hotel fees, in force since February 21, 2026: what it requires, what it did not do, and what New York hotels’ own websites state today.October 20, 2026
Do you have to pay a resort fee? When hotels waive itWhen hotels say their resort fee is not charged, quoted from their own pages: booking direct, a long stay, points, a government rate, and who can use each.September 26, 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.September 23, 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.September 20, 2026
Are resort fees legal? Laws by state and the FTC 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.October 20, 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.September 23, 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.September 24, 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.September 24, 2026
Resort fees by hotel company, from Hilton to MGMHotel companies ranked by the median resort, destination or amenity fee their hotels state on their own pages, and what each company’s hotels call it.September 26, 2026
Highest and lowest resort fees, hotel by hotelThe highest and lowest resort, destination and amenity fees hotels state on their own websites, ranked, with each city’s highest and how the fees spread.September 26, 2026
Las Vegas hotel check-in age: 21 or 18?Which Las Vegas hotels state a minimum check-in age, what it is, and the card hold each takes at the desk, as each hotel’s listing words it.October 2, 2026
Hotel check-in age: which hotels require 21Which hotels in the cities we read set a minimum check-in age, city by city, and which accept younger guests, in each hotel’s own words.October 2, 2026
Las Vegas hotel tax rate, and the tax on resort feesThe Las Vegas hotel tax rate in the words of Clark County and the City of Las Vegas: what it is, who collects it, and why a resort fee is taxed too.October 5, 2026
Are there hotels with no incidental fee?No hotel listing we read says the hotel takes no incidental deposit. Here are the holds the listings state with an amount, in their own words.October 21, 2026

By hotel company

What one company’s hotels state on their own pages, hotel by hotel. The companies are ranked side by side in resort fees by hotel company.

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.

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 puts every city side by side.