Double check: Hotels, motels, or resorts may charge extra fees

Article: Double check: Hotels, motels, or resorts may charge extra fees

In order to maintain or gain more profit, many hotels, motels, and resorts are charging additional fees for services and amenities besides basic room rates. You'll find that some services you've used in the past are free, but now they
aren't. To avoid any surprises on these hotel fees, you
need to check them up front such as read all the fine print,
read signs posted in your room, ask hotel employee to
disclose all hidden fees during reservation. Tell them if
any service you don't use, you don't want to pay for it.

Some of the hotel fees are:

• Check for any parking charge at hotels, motels, and resorts.

• When you make a reservation at a resort, it must disclose the
  resort processing fee.

• Check for the charge on an item you'll get from the mini-bar in
  your room. All those candies, snacks, wines and stuffs at the
  mini-bar look good, but they're probably not free and could be
  super expensive.

• Check how much you need to pay for phone calls in detail. If
  you have a cellular phone, it's probably cheaper to use your
  phone than the one in a hotel room.

• Check for the fees you pay on using the service of a porter,
  bellman, or housekeeper.

• High-speed Internet access in your room is good and convenient,
  but if you don't use, you don't want to pay for it.

• If you use a meeting room, check if you have to pay extra fee
  for dining room or banquet room next door.

• About newspaper and magazine delivery, remove these fees if
  you don't read them.

• Some other fees are:
  - Reservation processing fee
  - Health club
  - Safe deposit box fee, safe warranty fee for the in-room safe
  - Basketball and Tennis court, fitness center
  - Fax charges
  - Early departure fees
  - Pay-per-view movies
  - Energy fee

Article: Double check: Hotels, motels, or resorts may charge extra fees
By John Nguyen and Associates
Developers of Savingsforyou.net and Orange County Business Directory, CA