Hotel companies ranked
12
Their hotels whose page answered
212
State a nightly fee
188
Across the 65 US cities we have read, through October 21, 2026. A hotel counts for a company when its name carries one of the company’s brand names or its fee was read on the company’s own site; a hotel two companies could both claim is counted for neither, and a hotel whose page we could not read is in no figure.
Every company, by its median fee
The median a night, before any tax added on top, of the fees each company’s hotels state on their own pages; the range; and the name most of them give it. Each name opens the company’s guide, with every hotel, its page and the date we read it.
8 of 8 hotels state a fee, in 2 cities · from $30.00 to $55.00 · all call it “Daily Resort Fee”
$52.50
median a night
Margaritaville Hotels & Resorts
6 of 7 hotels state a fee, in 7 cities · from $22.00 to $54.00 · 4 of 6 call it “Resort fee” · 1 says it charges no resort fee
$46.50
median a night
7 of 7 hotels state a fee, in 7 cities · from $25.00 to $70.00 · 4 of 7 call it “Urban Experience Fee”
$45.00
median a night
5 of 5 hotels state a fee, in 3 cities · from $26.00 to $37.00 · all call it “Urban Fee”
$37.00
median a night
28 of 47 hotels state a fee, in 27 cities · from $25.00 to $60.00 · 10 of 28 call it “Destination fee” · 19 say they charge no resort fee
$35.00
median a night
10 of 10 hotels state a fee, in 9 cities · from $22.00 to $45.00 · 6 of 10 call it “Destination Charge”
$35.00
median a night
75 of 76 hotels state a fee, in 26 cities · from $12.00 to $60.00 · 34 of 75 call it “Resort charge” · 1 says it charges no resort fee
$32.00
median a night
19 of 21 hotels state a fee, in 19 cities · from $17.50 to $59.00 · 6 of 19 call it “Guest amenities fee” · 2 say they charge no resort fee
$32.00
median a night
12 of 12 hotels state a fee, in 10 cities · from $20.00 to $42.00 · 9 of 12 call it “Destination Fee”
$32.00
median a night
5 of 5 hotels state a fee, in 5 cities · from $18.00 to $35.00 · 3 of 5 call it “Urban Retreat Fee”
$25.00
median a night
7 of 7 hotels state a fee, in 4 cities · from $19.95 to $34.95 · all call it “Daily Amenity Fee”
$24.95
median a night
6 of 7 hotels state a fee, in 7 cities · from $3.00 to $30.00 · 2 of 6 call it “Hotel Service Fee” · 1 says it charges no resort fee
$14.98
median a night
A median is of the hotels we have read, in the cities we have read: Hilton’s hotels are the most read, at 75 stated fees, and a company whose hotels we read are mostly in high-fee cities will read higher than one read mostly elsewhere. It is a fact about the rows, not a statement of any company’s policy.
How a hotel is placed with its company
By its name, where the company’s own naming puts its brand — “Kimpton”, “Royal Sonesta”, “Fairmont” — or by the site its fee was read on, and never by a guess from an address or a price. Some names that look like a brand are not one: “Hilton Head” is an island, and the Omni and Sonesta resorts there are Omni’s and Sonesta’s. A hotel two companies’ rules could both claim is counted for neither.
A vacation club sold under a hotel company’s name is counted with it and said on the company’s page, because the club is often run by another company under license. A hotel whose page we could not read is counted as unconfirmed and is in no figure: a page we could not open has told us nothing about its fee.
Questions people ask
- Which hotel company charges the highest resort fee?
- Of the companies whose hotels we have read, MGM Resorts’ hotels state the highest median: $52.50 a night across 8 hotels in 2 cities, from $30.00 to $55.00 a night. A median is of the hotels we have read, in the cities we have read, so it says where those hotels are as much as what the company does.
- Which hotel company charges the lowest resort fee?
- Of the companies whose hotels we have read, Choice’s hotels state the lowest median: $14.98 a night across 6 hotels, from $3.00 to $30.00 a night. The lowest fee is still a fee: a hotel that charges none says so on its own page, and those hotels are listed by city in our guide to hotels without resort fees.
- Is the resort fee the same at every hotel of one company?
- No. At every company here the fee differs between its hotels, because each hotel sets its own. The widest spread is at Hilton’s hotels: from $12.00 to $60.00 a night.
- Why is a hotel company not listed here?
- A company is listed once at least 5 of its hotels’ own pages state a fee we could read, the same bar a city needs before we print its median. Below it, a ranking would be ranking a handful of hotels. Every hotel we have read, whoever runs it, is on its city’s page.
The hotels that say they charge no fee are in hotels without resort fees; every figure by city is in the Resort Fee Report, and how we read each fee is on the methodology page.