Do you pay for car parking at The Paradise Pier Hotel?

[mollies_mum]

Hi,
Basically how much is it to park your car per day at the Paradise Pier if you are staying there?
We are trying to price up a trip for October 2010,
Thanks
Ruby xxx

 

[Queenbillabong]

Hi,
Basically how much is it to park your car per day at the Paradise Pier if you are staying there?
We are trying to price up a trip for October 2010,
Thanks
Ruby xxx

All of the DLR hotels have a resort fee of roughly $15/day that covers parking, newspapers, Internet access, etc.

 

[mollies_mum]

Thanks Queenbillabong, that also answers my question about internet access!

 

[Sherry E]

Unless the prices have gone up since December (which is entirely possible - it IS Disney, after all ), the Resort Fee that is added on to your hotel stay (though PPH may not ask you to pay it until you arrive to check-in) is $12 per night plus 15% tax = $13.80 per night of your stay, on top of the nightly room rate w/ 15% tax.

Anyway, the Resort Fee includes parking and all the stuff that Queenbillabong mentioned. There are some of us who have expressed that we don't like being forced to pay that Resort Fee, because a lot of folks don't use any of the services that come with the RF at all. You don't even always get a newspaper, depending on what nights you are there! I am one who thinks it is unfair to make everyone pay $13.80 extra per night, because that can add up quickly if you are staying more than one night and not utilizing those services! I think they should go back to the old way they did things - in the olden days, the DLH and the PPH used to just charge you for parking IF you needed it, and then ask if you needed an extra parking pass and charge accordingly. Then, if you made any toll calls or billed anything to your hotel room during your stay, you would be charged at the end of the stay. But there was no mandatory fee that included gym use and newspapers that we neither used nor received!!

 

[mollies_mum]

We are staying for 10 nights so it is really going to affect us!

 

[Sherry E]

We are staying for 10 nights so it is really going to affect us!

I would say so! $138 extra is a big chunk of money when the hotel rooms are not cheap as it is. Yes, you may need parking and use the Internet in your room if you have a laptop with you, but I do think guests should be given the option of whether or not to pay a Resort Fee up front for all the servces it includes, depending on their individual needs, OR, as I said before, just pay for parking up front and then if they incur any other charges to the room during the stay, they pay the balance at check-out.