Junk fees — hidden, mandatory extras added to your final bill — have mushroomed in recent months and travelers are crying foul. The government is waging a public war against these annoying extras, but businesses still love hitting their customers with extras because fooling them into paying more is highly profitable.
Hotels have finally gone too far when it comes to parking fees.
When it comes to hotel amenities, the lodging industry is trying something new: It’s giving you what you want.
If enough travelers stopped paying the travel industry’s infuriating surcharges and fees, would the unwanted add-ons simply disappear? Would extra charges for checked luggage, ticket change fees and mandatory hotel resort fees vanish into thin air?
The travel industry seems to always have its hand out — sometimes literally.
