{"id":17637,"date":"2023-05-11T20:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/11\/marriott-is-finally-including-fees-in-its-nightly-rates-the-points-guy\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T20:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:30:36","slug":"marriott-is-finally-including-fees-in-its-nightly-rates-the-points-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/11\/marriott-is-finally-including-fees-in-its-nightly-rates-the-points-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott is finally including fees in its nightly rates – The Points Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A major part of so-called drip pricing appears to be a thing of the past at the world\u2019s largest hotel company.<\/p>\n

In recent years, resort fees have often topped the list of travel annoyances, as these fees \u2014 which sometimes approach $100 a night \u2014 have not typically been included in the initial listed nightly rate for a hotel.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Joe Biden targeted this practice<\/a> in his State of the Union address earlier this year, and Marriott was even the target of a Pennsylvania attorney general\u2019s investigation into how the company handled resort fees.<\/p>\n

Marriott eventually settled with the Pennsylvania AG. While Marriott maintained it was always transparent in how it charged the fees (often in a blue box noting the added fee at the top of a booking window), the company now bundles the resort fee into a rate.<\/p>\n

A sample booking for New York City Marriott hotels this week shows the Times Square Edition, Renaissance New York Times Square Hotel, the New York Marriott Marquis and other Marriott-affiliated hotels in the area included the \u201cdestination amenity fee\u201d into the nightly rate and noted such a fee was part of the overall charge.<\/p>\n

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