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Major Rant about Con Hotels, and I don't care who reads it,
15 years ago
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Ok, so, what the hell is it with con hotels wanting to charge more than the already outrageously overpriced room charges? MFF's new hotel is charging a $50 a day fee for "incidentals" on top of the $140 a day for the room, and now I've been told there is no way to avoid it.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!
What the hell are incidentals anyway? I never have the phone in the room activated at cons. I don't use room service, and I think anyone who does is just plain lazy. They overcharge horrendously for everything.
So, I guess my question is, how can this even be legal? We have to pay $125 a day for the room, which isn't worth half of that in my opinion, plus 13% tax.... and now an extra $50 a day on top of that?
Oh yeah, it's recommended to not use a debit card to pay either. So, how the heck is one who doesn't have and can't get a credit card supposed to pay? Even if I pay cash I still get charged that extra, and when and how do I get it back after the con? I bet they won't be giving out 2 $100 bills to everyone who stays there that weekend. So apparently it will get tied up on my card for weeks at least.
I don't see why hotels charge so much to start with when one can stay at a Motel 6 or Super 8 for under $50 a day. The con is paying tons of money to the hotel for the use of the con space, so I think the hotel is just ripping off everyone else who is staying there.
And don't even get me going on the normal charge for parking they have, at least we don't have to pay that, but I bet it's going to be a royal pain to get in and out of the parking lot. Hell, it's a royal pain to even get to this hotel. Has anyone even looked at a map of the place yet? 3 freaking interstates and offramps just to get to it?
Yeah, this was such a great idea to move here.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!
What the hell are incidentals anyway? I never have the phone in the room activated at cons. I don't use room service, and I think anyone who does is just plain lazy. They overcharge horrendously for everything.
So, I guess my question is, how can this even be legal? We have to pay $125 a day for the room, which isn't worth half of that in my opinion, plus 13% tax.... and now an extra $50 a day on top of that?
Oh yeah, it's recommended to not use a debit card to pay either. So, how the heck is one who doesn't have and can't get a credit card supposed to pay? Even if I pay cash I still get charged that extra, and when and how do I get it back after the con? I bet they won't be giving out 2 $100 bills to everyone who stays there that weekend. So apparently it will get tied up on my card for weeks at least.
I don't see why hotels charge so much to start with when one can stay at a Motel 6 or Super 8 for under $50 a day. The con is paying tons of money to the hotel for the use of the con space, so I think the hotel is just ripping off everyone else who is staying there.
And don't even get me going on the normal charge for parking they have, at least we don't have to pay that, but I bet it's going to be a royal pain to get in and out of the parking lot. Hell, it's a royal pain to even get to this hotel. Has anyone even looked at a map of the place yet? 3 freaking interstates and offramps just to get to it?
Yeah, this was such a great idea to move here.
Pure bullshit in my opinion.
It definitely does suck if you don't have a credit card though. I didn't last year at the Westin, and they charged one as well. Set me back $100 for a few weeks until the charge for just the room went through. Thankfully now I have a credit card that I use primarily for renting hotels just for this reason.
And I've been to the new hotel when I had a mascoting gig there a few yeas ago. I remember it being hard to find and parking being a pain in the ass.
It is a nice hotel though...lol
I'm thinking it might be internal investigations of furry convention and what the good and bad are and I guess they just found out the bad side.
Oh well, that ain't stopping me attending the central furry con!
If the incidentals charge is only for con-goers then just see if you can get a room out of the allocated room block.