Effortlessly Manage Your Hotel Stay Bill Format for Legal Compliance

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David Himel makes and sells high-end leather products travel he says is part of the business if you're not on the road and you're not meeting people face to face you're not selling jackets afraid to do it in can recently he's noticed unwelcome additions to his hotel these extra fees it's nickel and Diamond it's absurd consider what some hotels now consider extras want a choice between a king or two queen beds that'll cost you want to store your luggage before the room is ready there's often a fee for that now other hotels charge to use the gym and the pool and don't even go near that mini bar some hotels charge a restocking fee if you take something out of it for more than one minute even if you put it back others will add a charge if you store your own drink in the mini box a booking fee $12 occupancy tax $1 okay safe fee $3 weird but sure weird but true some hotels do charge to use the safe there only a few more charges sir one night of internet access $7.95 it's a diamond studded profit maker a study out this week looking only at hotels in the US says they'll earn more than $2.2 billion in Revenue this year alone just from all those extra fees a number that has more than doubled over the last decade I just heard of a new fee that I never heard of before and that was the urban fee and that's some Hotel in San Francisco is charging that consumer Advocates call it false advertising hey you're stuck they're mandatory and the bad thing about this is that they don't tell you this upfront the American Hotel and Lodging Association disputes that saying its members provide guests full disclosure for all fees charged at the time of booking frequent traveler David Himel says it's often in the fine print and often overlooked if you went into a restaurant and they said well we can give you Cutlery but that's an extra dollar on your meal you would walk out which is exactly what himl says he's doing he's now renting private homes and apartments on the road because he doesn't want any more surprises when he gets the final bill Aaron Salzman CBC News ton