Texas hotels read for a second charge
15
Name a recovery fee
3
Amount a night
$4.75–$5.25
Texas hotels in Dallas, Austin and San Antonio whose own page we read for a charge beside the fee, through 19 September 2026. 137 more Texas hotels could not be confirmed either way. 8 were read before we recorded second charges, so they were never asked. None of those is counted as a hotel without the charge.
Each hotel’s charge, in its own words
The name is the hotel’s, and so is the sentence. The amount is read from the words right after the name, and the whole sentence is quoted under it so the figure can be checked against it.
San Antonio · “State cost recovery fee”, beside its $22.00 destination fee · Hotel’s page, read .
“Yes, there is a state cost recovery fee of $4.75 per room, per night, and a $22 destination fee per room, per night.”
$4.75
a night
Lone Star Court, by Valencia Hotel Collection
Austin · “State cost recovery fee”, beside its $18.00 destination fee · Hotel’s page, read .
“Yes, there is a state cost recovery fee of $4.75 per room, per night, and a destination fee of $18 per room, per night.”
$4.75
a night
Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
Dallas · “Texas State Recovery Fee”, beside its $50.00 destination fee · Hotel’s page, read .
“Rates are subject to 17% tax, including 2% Dallas Tourism Public Improvement Reimbursement Fee and a nightly Texas State Recovery Fee of $5.25 (excluding tax).”
$5.25
a night
Who sets it: what the evidence shows
A charge a government sets, which the hotel only collects, is a levy rather than the hotel’s fee, and this site does not list one as a fee. A charge the hotel names and states is the hotel’s own unless a government source says otherwise. So the question is answered with what the pages show.
What the state’s own page says. The Texas Comptroller’s page on the hotel occupancy tax, read 22 September 2026: “The state hotel occupancy tax rate is 6 percent (.06) of the cost of a room.” That is a percentage of the cost of the room. The page does not use the word “recovery”, and names no charge per room per night. The same page says: “Cities and certain counties and special purpose districts are authorized to impose an additional local hotel tax that the local taxing authority collects.” We have not read every city’s and county’s hotel tax, so this is one state page, not a search of every Texas levy.
Who names it. Only the hotels listed above, of the Texas hotels counted at the top of this page. A page that names none has not told us the hotel does not charge one; it has told us the page does not say so. Outside Texas, none of the 243 hotels whose pages we read for a second charge names one.
Who states the amount. The hotels do, each in a sentence on its own page, quoted in full above.
What we make of it. Nothing we have read from the state sets this charge, and the hotels are the ones stating it. Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek names it in the same sentence as its tax; that sentence, quoted above, is the hotel’s own account of how the two fit together. So this site lists it as the hotel’s own charge — beside its fee, in its words, never added into the fee, and never called a tax here. That is a description of the evidence, not a legal opinion: whether a hotel may charge it, or must show it in the price it advertises, is a question for the rules themselves, which resort fee laws quotes from each government’s own text.
Questions people ask
- Is the Texas state recovery fee a tax?
- No government page we have read sets it. The Texas Comptroller’s hotel tax page, read 22 September 2026, says: “The state hotel occupancy tax rate is 6 percent (.06) of the cost of a room.” It names no charge per room per night, and the hotels state this one’s amount themselves. Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek names it in the same sentence as its tax. That is a record of what the pages say, not a legal opinion.
- How much is the Texas state recovery fee?
- At the Texas hotels whose own pages name one: Hotel Valencia Riverwalk ($4.75 a night); Lone Star Court, by Valencia Hotel Collection ($4.75 a night); and Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek ($5.25 a night); read through 19 September 2026.
- Do all Texas hotels charge a state recovery fee?
- Not on what we have read: 3 of the 15 Texas hotels we read for a second charge name one, and the other 12 name none. Another 145 Texas hotels in our data were not asked or could not be confirmed, and tell us nothing either way.
The other charges hotels name beside a resort fee — housekeeping, worker ordinances, sustainability — are in what other fees hotels charge, and whether tax is added to a fee is in is tax charged on a resort fee.