Author Topic: And so it begins... Marriott Sued for Resort Fees  (Read 15134 times)

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2019, 09:15:18 AM »
They are a private company, this is not a fee they hide from you before you use their service. It is something they tell you before you book, in a capitalist society you have the right to boycott them. Getting the government involved is so wrong.

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2019, 09:40:12 AM »
They are a private company, this is not a fee they hide from you before you use their service. It is something they tell you before you book, in a capitalist society you have the right to boycott them. Getting the government involved is so wrong.
Wrong. The resort fees are hidden until you show up at the resort. It's intentionally deceptive. Which makes the Government's involvement right.
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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2019, 11:02:18 AM »
Nope again.

One of the main aspects of the lawsuit is disgorgement of the fees collected by Marriott.  Postponing does nothing except delay the inevitable, all while paying counsel to run up bills.  Zero chance Marriott doesn't try to settle this.

In all likelihood, would a settlement include the one important thing, that they stop charging these fees? Or would there be a way for MT to weasel out of it?

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2019, 12:58:04 PM »
Wrong. The resort fees are hidden until you show up at the resort. It's intentionally deceptive. Which makes the Government's involvement right.
I personally haven't experienced that. Do you have any examples of specific locations that dont disclose anywhere on the booking page?

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2019, 01:26:49 PM »
They are a private company, this is not a fee they hide from you before you use their service. It is something they tell you before you book, in a capitalist society you have the right to boycott them. Getting the government involved is so wrong.
The government is here to serve the people that elected them. In this case the government believes there is a substantial interest to protect consumers from deceptive practices.
I personally haven't experienced that. Do you have any examples of specific locations that dont disclose anywhere on the booking page?
July 17-18;@ the St Regis NYC shows on the main page as 877 and once proceeding jumps to 1067.23.

You can read the lawsuit but its pretty clear to anyone that ever made a Hotel booking  on many sites, the original price you see is not the final one you'll pay.

The government is obviously trying to get it to look similar to an airline ticket purchase, where as the price you see is the price youll pay.

Hotels can do just like airlines do, offer different fares.
Basic - would cover just hotel
Advanced - would cover breakfast and WIFI ETC.,
there are many more options. Some hotels do this already but INMO not on a large enough scale and on a technical level it's way easier for them to get this implemented then it takes for an airline to + there are so many ppl that would pay for all this.
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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2019, 01:31:50 PM »


its pretty clear to anyone that ever made a Hotel booking  on many sites, the original price you see is not the final one you'll pay.


Right, but that's not an example of someone showing up to a hotel and being charged extra

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2019, 01:36:38 PM »
*+resort fee, parking fee, and taxes on those fees.

How many people skip over that small text?

Right, but that's not an example of someone showing up to a hotel and being charged extra

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2019, 01:57:01 PM »
*+resort fee, parking fee, and taxes on those fees.

How many people skip over that small text?
I'm not disagreeing with you, but that can't be called showing up and being charged more than you were told.

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2019, 02:03:09 PM »

Right, but that's not an example of someone showing up to a hotel and being charged extra
I'm not disagreeing with you, but that can't be called showing up and being charged more than you were told.
Did you read the lawsuit? It's not what they are claiming.

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2019, 02:07:22 PM »
Did you read the lawsuit? It's not what they are claiming.
Did you read what I was originally responding to?

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #30 on: July 11, 2019, 02:08:06 PM »
Here you go
Wrong. The resort fees are hidden until you show up at the resort. It's intentionally deceptive. Which makes the Government's involvement right.

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #33 on: October 24, 2019, 06:09:02 AM »
Just saw on Marriott that banner abt the added property fee, been there for a while. But added words that this fee includes up to $50 to spend on food etc...
Might be for this specific property.

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Re: And so it begins... Marrott Sued for Resort Fees
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Re: And so it begins... Marriott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #36 on: October 20, 2021, 01:16:05 AM »
It's been more than 2 years and thread title hasn't been fixed yet!
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Re: And so it begins... Marriott Sued for Resort Fees
« Reply #37 on: October 21, 2021, 11:40:04 AM »
It's been more than 2 years and thread title hasn't been fixed yet!

And... they still charge resort fees
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