News and notes from around the interweb:
- Day passes turned away at the Washington Dulles D concourse United Club
- Hotel resort fees in crosshairs from state attorneys general and a class action lawsuit
- My Husband Won’t Get Out Of Bed When We Travel. How Do I Save My Vacation?
- Next year’s Air France KLM Flying Blue program changes are actually not meant to be understood: “The less you understand, the better you listen”
- Reminder: if your Hyatt status is going to drop next year, match it to MGM M life Rewards so you can match it back next year! Unless Hyatt puts safe guards in place, because this has worked in the past..
- Vintage photos: how air travel has changed through the decades
- JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater grabbed a beer from the galley, popped the aircraft slide, and made a dramatic exit from his aviation career. He has advice for the departing twitter employee who deleted the President’s account for 11 minutes.
- Up to 50,000 American AAdvantage bonus miles for European many residents flying transatlantic. Registration required. (HT: S.)
Just to clarify, Steven Slater grabbed two beers — not just one. That’s partly what made it so epic. 😉
RE: hotel resort/amenity/hospitality/etc. fees, in my experience the consumer disgruntlement stems less from the practice per se and more from the growing ubiquity of the fees. You used to half-expect them at higher-end properties and actual resorts. Now it can be hard to find a property with more than three stars that doesn’t charge one.
Put an end to the practice, please.
The link to the 50000 AA bonus offer is not working for me
@Tracy S – I totally agree with you and it also varies widely between properties. I would probably be more amenable if I was charged a resort fee per stay vs. per night. Or if the rate included self-parking as opposed to in room bottled water and a newspaper. Who reads a newspaper anymore?
I will admit one hotel I stayed at last year it made a difference. It was a Stay 3 No Resort Fee rate – stays of at least 3 nights waived the Resort Fee. We stayed 5 nights. At $40/night if not for that rate we would have paid for more than another night (those fees are also taxed as well). We got the resort amenities (which included self-parking).