Say per room
116
Say per person
1
Do not say
386
Out of 503 fees stated per night by hotels in 65 US cities. A phrase such as “provides every guest with” describes who can use what the fee covers, not what it is charged per, so it is not counted as per person.
What it means for your bill
Most stated fees that name a unit name the room. Where a hotel says per person, the fee grows with the number of guests; check that hotel’s own wording.
With a per-room fee, two rooms means two fees. A fee is also charged per night, so a five-night stay pays it five times: every figure on our pages is one the hotel states per night, and a fee a hotel states per stay is listed without a figure rather than divided up by us.
Questions people ask
- Do I pay the resort fee for each person in the room?
- At 1 of the 503 hotels we have read, yes: they say per person. 116 say per room.
- If I book two rooms, do I pay two resort fees?
- Yes, at the hotels that state a per-room fee: each room is charged its own fee for every night.
- Is a resort fee charged every night?
- Every fee on our pages is one the hotel states per night. A hotel that states a fee per stay instead is listed without a figure until its page says what it is per night.
What the fee pays for is in what a resort fee covers, and whether tax is added in is tax charged on a resort fee.