Dolphin resort fee???

[cmwade77]

The difference breaking out the resort fee makes is now when I try to compare room prices among say 100 hotels on Kayak, I can't do that easily as I don't know what each of them charges for resort fees, parking fees, etc.

Tell me what my total cost per night will be and then I can easily compare hotels.

Otherwise, it almost feels like a bait and switch, yeah our hotel rooms are $15 per night cheaper, but then you get there and find out there's a $20 per night resort fee and $30 per night parking fee. If I had known that, I would have paid the extra $15 for the hotel with no extra fees.

As for Swan and Dolphin, in our case it doesn't save us money. Also, I am a bug fan of the dinning plan. It has always saved us money, usually around 30%-40% off of our food bill and since you can't get that at the Swan and Dolphin, it doesn't work for us. I know many that it would though, I am just expressing how I feel about the concept of resort fees.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

6 of one, half dozen of the other. I stay at WDW run resorts and the S/D, so I'm just playing devil's advocate. But, what about all those "perks" that WDW offers resort guests that some are paying for and don't use?

For example, we would never use ME and rarely use bus transportation, but those costs are in your room rate. We usually avoid EMH, but in a round about way they are included in your resort price.

 

[bumbershoot]

Same here. When I first looked at swan/dolphin, I thought, "wow, a deluxe at a moderate price." Then I added parking/resort fees, and realized that its just as high. I agree that it is a toal scam to add these fees, just to make their rates seem lower. When you think about adding $14 perday when you arrive for parking, then $14 resort fee, it doesn't sound like lot, unless you stay 10 days, and when you check-in are told you owe an extra $300. Then what...too late. I think they bank on the fact that people wont read the small print.

$300 total extra at the end of the stay would be the cost of an deluxe vs a moderate? I think I'm getting different prices than you are!

Those of you that resent the resort and parking fees, you do know you are paying them at most resorts right??? Disney just builds it into the nightly room cost and charges everyone regardless of whether they use it or not.MANY hotels in MANY cities itemize them out now so that you see what you are paying.This not something radically new or limited to just Orlando Florida either

Exactly.

A key example is actually the resorts out at Disneyland. They used to charge a resort fee that included parking, pools, newspapers, internet, etc. Last year or so they dropped the resort fee so all but parking is now included in your rate, but if you have a car you pay the parking fee.

And now the prices are VASTLY higher than they used to be, with very few discounts available.

I'd like to go back to the old way, please.




While I didn't stay at the Dolphin, I visited my cousins there and their room was gorgeous, as was the hotel. in the daytime it looked like they had a cruddy dumpster view, but at night they realized they could see Wishes clear as day in the distance from their window. They loved that.

 

[fla4fun]

Count me in as one who thinks all mandatory fees that every guest has to pay should be rolled into the room cost. If they want to make parking a separate fee, I may not like it but I understand it, as not every guest is bringing a car. But if they are charging a "resort fee" to every room, then it should just be in the price of the room.

I try not to patronize resorts that price this way whenever possible. Sometimes though, it's a surprise at the front desk, and when it is, believe me I go out of my way not to stay at that property again (doesn't happen as often these days though, with all the review websites out there).

 

[patty57]

The resort fee bothers some, and doesn't bother others. Different strokes. I'll take the Swan/Dolphin and the extra cash in my pocket, while still staying in the Epcot area. I might feel differently if I went on Kayak and compared hundreds of hotels, but I know that I stay around Epcot, or a couple of other WDW resorts, so comparing is easy for me.