Hotel Fees | featured news

For some hotels, lobbies, business centers and meeting areas have become an untapped source of additional revenue and new customers who live and work nearby.

Get ready for some annoying new hotel fees, such as minibar restocking and baggage holding fees, in 2013 as projected modest occupancy increases embolden hotels to tack on new fees and surcharges even for their most loyal guests.

Pump bottle on the shower wall or individual shampoos and lotions you can take home? Here are some details on six hotel trends bubbling up in the industry right now, and how they affect your stay.

People checking out of a hotel are usually in a hurry, whether on their way to catch a plane, return a rental car or get back to their families. Certainly they’re too busy to notice or care about a measly extra charge for 75 cents for an unrequested newspaper.

As guests show up equipped with iPhones, iPads and other devices, hotels are learning that they want to do anything but pay for in-room technology.

Which hotel fees are still out there that shouldn’t be? Which ones should be euthanized? And how do you go about finishing them off? Here are five hotel fees that must die.