Let me guess: this is intentionally done to show up at the top of flights price low -> lists.
Maybe, or maybe it’s to curb the law that force a refund in certain cases. You want a refund? It’s 64$.
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This is just silly. I recently saw Las Vegas hotels doing something similar though to a much lesser extent where it’s called “resort fees”. Should be illegal but it doesn’t affect me since I’m not traveling to the US
Those “resort fees” were part of Biden’s FTC’s efforts to crack down on junk fees. Trump is now undoing that work. https://www.investopedia.com/trump-has-undone-biden-s-war-on-junk-fees-11772720
It’s not just Vegas. It’s also very popular in short-term rentals (like AirBnB) and other gig enterprises.
More like “extort fees”
For hotels, I’m wondering if this is a trick to meet a government rate.
Resort fees are required by legislation, it’s basically a tax on tourists.I was wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resort_fee
The hotels receipts I’ve seen (I worked approving travel expenses, so I’ve seen a lot) they differentiate between specific locally mandated fees and their own fees (which is probably part of the legislation that compels them).
Then why do they vary by hotel?
Because I was wrong, edited.
What are their surcharges?
Enjoying a succulent meal.
A succulent Chinese meal.
I had a hotel charge me for “services.” Like bitch that’s in the price of the room!
That’s like renting a flat and being charged extra for doors.
Bullshit, mostly.
Being alive…
OK. May we see the itemized list?
On the invoice it doesn’t seem so. Just 520$ per person. That link on the pic is just text.
volatile, unpredictable or fluctuating operating costs and fees
Socialize the Costs and Privatize the Profits
edit: What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before you bought the ticket?
So literally no itemization, just $520.
OK, that is indeed bullshit.
I’m guessing it’s the “peak dates” thing. They have a base price aka. minimum price when planes are mostly empty and then put on a surcharge for when demand is high, instead of altering the base price.
On the invoice it doesn’t seem so. Just 520$ per person. I’ll try.
Jesus, it is like the fucking plaque with you.
Fuck, Dean, lately all you seem to do on lemmy is gripe and insultingly correct people while getting it wrong yourself. Hope you feel better soon.
Like the plaque on your teeth?
Or did you mean plague, you (to borrow a page from your own playbook), fucking idiot?
Neither of which is an actual turn of phrase, btw. The phrase you wanted is (ironically, because of the plaque) “it’s like pulling teeth with you.” If you’re going to be a smug dick at least be correct so you don’t embarrass yourself any more than you already do by simply being a smug dick.
I recently did a return trip from Dublin to Boston and back. Each ticket was 1 Euro; rhe rest was airport taxes, government levies, etc.
In the past, pre-covid, 1 Euro tickets were not unusual. Part of the reason why Ryanair became so dominant was that they contracted with secondary airports that had much lower fees, so the final price was below what the competitors could offer.
Yes, Ryanair. But even they could itemize what you had to pay extra for. OP got this instead:
What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before they bought the ticket?
edit: somebody made the Ryanair experience into an operetta song! https://youtu.be/ZAg0lUYHHFc
Thank you for the Fascinating Aida link. Spent the afternoon discovering their great back catalog.
How this is 15y old and I’ve never seen?!
*$64 and *$1040. You saved no time in typing it wrong and look stupid. It is even in the picture you took, all you had to do was follow; even a monkey can do that.
Wow, you’re a pleasant person. Just a big bowl of rainbows and sunshine.
You didn’t have to write this comment but you did and you look stupid. All you had to do was nothing. Even a monkey can do that.
Who hurt you wtf. Are you okay?
What exactly is the point of this comment?
Some people are just unpleasant.
They really just are, too. I went to their page to block them, and like half their comments are just highly-downvoted, sometimes confidently-incorrect bitching.
