With the latest round of price hikes, is a Disney resort amenities fee not far off?
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Resort amenities fee
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nickys
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Off the top of my head I think it’s something like 5k DVC rooms out of 30K in total. The dedicated 2-bed rooms will push that up a bit, GVs are few enough to not affect much. So 15-20% as a ballpark figure.
If some resort areas were closed , in rehab, substandard , etc I would get with manger at checkout to waive fees and explain in detail why. I have nothing to lose.
Weather_Lady
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I would, too. It would be ridiculous for WDW to charge "amenities fees" for hotels that are not even able to offer the same amenities they did pre-COVID, let alone the amenities (such as full daily housekeeping, fully-open-and-operational restaurants and gyms, and in some cases, free self-parking) that have been restored at every budget hotel my family has visited over the past 18 months.
Then again, when has being "ridiculous" stopped the current WDW management from charging extra for anything?
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ToTBellHop
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Will they vacuum every day?
Cmdr_Crimson
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Closest to that is the good neighbor hotels in Disney Springs...First trip out there in 2004 I stayed at the Grosvenor Resort (Now Wyndam) and they informed me just before I checked in..At that time it was $30 per day....
DisAl
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Only your bank account.
Sir_Cliff
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At least you can choose not to park at the hotel. A resort fee just involves hiding part of the cost of the room from the original quote in the hope you'll commit to staying there before they spring the full cost on you.
It also gives them another lever to pull when they want to shake out some more dollars. So many levers these days.
LeighM
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No, not everyone can choose to not park at the resort as flying isn't an option for everyone. For years, they justified the increased cost of their rooms compared to off property resorts bc of the free parking at the resorts and parks, free magical express, etc. The costs of the rooms are still going up but now you have to pay for parking or the former magical express, with less time in the parks. It's insane. But if they had just called it a resort fee with price tiers depending on where you're staying - deluxe has more amenities and they get the extra extended hours, which is more than the values get. If they had bundled the parking, transportation, pools, arcade, etc into one general umbrella called resort fee, then it would've been more tolerable. But instead, they charge for the parking, which should already be factored into the cost of the room, take away arcades, do away with their own magical express, and so many other things. Why is parking at value $15 but a deluxe is $25? They seem like such arbitrary numbers to me. It would've bothered me much less to think of the cost as bundled into a bigger package. But the itemization just annoys me to no end LOL. It's allowed me to more easily put a price to the Disney experience and it has made me wonder if I'm really getting the value for the money.
Sir_Cliff
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To be clear, I agree with you the parking fee on top of the already-overpriced rooms is also ridiculous, so I'm not in favour of that either! Also agree all the (mostly eliminated) 'extras' were already covered by hefty mark-ups for Disney hotels over comparable rooms elsewhere and have no idea why the car parking spots are considered more fancy and thus worth more money along with the category of hotel.
The reason I disagree with a blanket resort fee being a better option is that it is just taking part of the cost of the room and hiding it from the initial quote they give you. Resort fees for this reason seem like an out-and-out con to me as they are just as compulsory as the rest of the rate, they just give it another name and sneak it in at the end of the booking process when they hope you've already mentally committed to booking. They may as well add an extra fee for use of electricity or breathing the hotel air while they're inventing new ways to hide the real cost of the room. At least if you're not using a parking space, you don't pay the parking fee.
MickeyLuv'r
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Marriott was recently sued over this. Under the settlement of the suit, their resort fees now have to be more clearly disclosed on the website. (though that is not the legalese wording.)
What I noticed is that on the website, you can now click on a checkbox, and the total cost of the hotel is right on the listing page (when you first look up the cost of hotel rooms in any location). Parking and pet fees can later be added, but I think that's generally about it.
Beacon Joe
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Interesting. Is that why the Marriott hotels are some of the only hotels in Waikiki for which you don't have to dig around for 30 minutes to determine all of the high tack-on fees?
MickeyLuv'r
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perhaps. I just know fees are on the main Marriott page. Though it also seems like perhaps they raised fees (since 2019) at their WDW properties: S/D and SR, but I don't know that for certain.