Hotels read for this
258
Name a second charge
20
Cities
10
The base is the hotels we looked at for a SECOND charge, not every hotel in the dataset: we began recording them on 18 September 2026, and a hotel read before that was never asked the question. Counting those as “no second charge” would report a smaller share of something we had not measured.
Why one line is not the whole bill
A resort fee is the charge people have learned to look for. It is not always the only one. Myrtle Beach is the clearest case: 7 of its hotels name a second mandatory nightly charge, and 6 of those call it a daily housekeeping fee. Neither is in the room rate, and finding the first tells you nothing about the second.
The sharpest example runs the other way. Red Roof Inn Myrtle Beach Hotel - Market Common states on its own page that there is no resort fee — and then names a mandatory nightly charge anyway. A page that said only “no resort fee” would have been true and useless.
What hotels call them
Every charge below is quoted from the hotel’s own page, with its own name for it. The amount stays inside the sentence: several of these give no per-night figure at all, and a number we worked out would not be a number the hotel stated.
A daily housekeeping fee · 6
A nightly charge for cleaning the room, on top of the resort fee — and priced by how many bedrooms the unit has, so it rises with the size of the party.
- Bay View Resort · Myrtle Beach · beside its $20.00 resort fee
“Daily Housekeeping Fee: Standard Room – $15.95 One Bedroom and smaller – $24.95 Two Bedroom – $29.95 Three Bedroom – $34.95 Four Bedroom – $39.95”
- Breakers Resort · Myrtle Beach · beside its $17.50 resort fee
“Daily Housekeeping Fee: Standard Room – $15.95 Efficiency – $15.95 One Bedroom – $24.95 Two Bedroom – $29.95 Three Bedroom – $34.95 Four Bedroom – $39.95”
- Caribbean Resort & Villas · Myrtle Beach · beside its $20.00 resort fee
“Daily Housekeeping Fee: Standard Room – $15.95 One Bedroom – $24.95 Two Bedroom – $29.95 Three Bedroom – $34.95 Four Bedroom – $39.95”
- Compass Cove Resort · Myrtle Beach · beside its $20.00 resort fee
“Daily Housekeeping Fee: Standard Room – $15.95 One Bedroom – $24.95 Two Bedroom – $29.95 Three Bedroom – $34.95 Four Bedroom – $39.95”
- Ocean Reef Resort · Myrtle Beach · beside its $20.00 resort fee
“Daily Housekeeping Fee: Standard Room – $15.95 One Bedroom – $24.95 Two Bedroom – $29.95 Three Bedroom – $34.95 Four Bedroom – $39.95”
- The Strand - A Boutique Resort · Myrtle Beach · beside its $17.50 resort fee
“Daily Housekeeping Fee: Standard Room – $15.95 One Bedroom – $24.95 Two Bedroom – $29.95 Three Bedroom – $34.95 Four Bedroom – $39.95”
A hotel-worker ordinance surcharge · 3
A charge a hotel adds to recover the cost of a city ordinance on hotel workers’ pay or conditions. The ordinance requires the cost; the surcharge is the hotel’s own decision to pass it on.
- Hotel Ziggy · Los Angeles · beside its $40.00 guest amenities fee
“An additional $10 per night Los Angeles City Worker Protection Fee is added to each reservation.”
- Kimpton Everly Hotel · Los Angeles · beside its $45.00 daily destination fee
“Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance Surcharge of $9.00 + tax charge will be assessed to recoup cost of compliance with the Los Angeles Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance.”
- Montrose at Beverly Hills · Los Angeles · beside its $40.00 guest amenity fee
“City Worker Protection Fee: $10+ taxes per night”
A sustainability or environmental fee · 2
A nightly charge the hotel attaches to environmental costs or programmes.
- The Garland · Los Angeles · beside its $37.20 la hotel worker protection ordinance (chmwo #188944) fee
“All rooms are subject to a nightly Environmental Sustainability Fee of $1.75.”
- Hotel Caza Fisherman's Wharf · San Francisco · beside its $41.19 destination fee
“Hotel Caza charges a sustainability fee of $6.00 plus tax ($7.06 inclusive).”
A second fee from the same family · 3
A destination, resort, amenity or facility fee charged beside another mandatory nightly fee — the same vocabulary twice on one bill, which is why finding one fee does not mean you have found them all.
- The Inn at Middleton Place · Charleston · beside its $29.00 hotel amenities fee
“The total stay amount includes an 8% lodging fee and $2 destination fee plus tax.”
- Sonesta Resort Hilton Head Island · Hilton Head Island · beside its $40.00 resort fee
“A daily Resort Fee of $40+ tax and a daily Hilton Head Island Destination Fee of $3+ tax will be charged to your room account.”
- Dreamcatcher Inn of Sedona · Sedona · beside its $12.00 hotel service fee
“Room charges will incur 13.325% tax - $2.13 destination fee & $12 hotel Service fee per night.”
A service fee · 2
A nightly charge for service, sometimes a percentage of the rate rather than a figure — which means it grows with the price of the room.
- Henderson Park Inn · Destin · beside its $45.00 resort fee
“Nightly Service Fee of 5% of the rate allows us to provide a welcome amenity, 24 hour snack and beverage offerings”
- Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort · Hilton Head Island · beside its $45.00 resort services charge
“A $45 resort services charge per room, per night, will be added to the room rate, plus 11 percent sales tax, and a $3 service charge.”
Named something else · 4
A mandatory nightly charge whose name matches none of the groups above. Listed in the hotel’s own words rather than filed under the nearest fit.
- Lone Star Court, by Valencia Hotel Collection · Austin · beside its $18.00 destination fee
“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.”
- Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek · Dallas · beside its $50.00 destination fee
“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).”
- Red Roof Inn Myrtle Beach Hotel - Market Common · Myrtle Beach · states no resort fee
“Safe Usage Policy: Fee of $3.00 plus tax per night will be added at the hotel.”
- Hotel Valencia Riverwalk · San Antonio · beside its $22.00 destination fee
“Yes, there is a state cost recovery fee of $4.75 per room, per night, and a $22 destination fee per room, per night.”
What is not on this list, and why
Taxes and government levies. Georgia charges $5 a room a night and Savannah another $1; Nevada sets Reno’s $2 tourism surcharge. A government sets those and the hotel only collects them, so they are not the hotel’s fee and they are not counted here. A charge the hotel names and states stays — including one named after the state, such as a “state recovery fee”, which the hotels themselves state and which no government page we have read sets. The Texas hotels that name one, and what the state’s own tax page says, are in what is the Texas state recovery fee.
Parking, pets and deposits. Parking is charged only if you bring a car, so it is shown on a hotel’s own page rather than counted as a fee everybody pays. A deposit or card hold is not a charge at all: it is money held and released.
Anything optional. A charge you can decline is not one of these. The test throughout is whether the hotel’s own sentence says it is mandatory and nightly.
Questions people ask
- Is a daily housekeeping fee legal?
- Nothing here says otherwise. What the hotels state is that it is mandatory and charged per night on top of the room rate, and in every case we read it rises with the number of bedrooms — so a family in a two-bedroom unit pays more for cleaning than a couple in a standard room, on top of a resort fee they both pay.
- Can I find out about a second charge before I book?
- Not reliably from a booking site. We found these by reading 258 hotels’ own pages one at a time, and the sentence is usually on a policies or FAQ page rather than beside the price. That is the reason this list exists.
- Do you add these to the totals you show?
- No, and deliberately. Several of these sentences give no per-night figure — one is a percentage of the rate, another gives no basis at all — so a total that included them would be a number no hotel stated. They are shown beside the fee, in the hotel’s own words, wherever that hotel appears.
What a resort fee itself is, and why it is not in the price, is in what is a resort fee. The hotels that say they charge none are in hotels without resort fees. Some Hilton hotels’ pages give their nightly fee a name of its own, a “mandatory charge”, and what it costs is in what is the Hilton mandatory charge.