These days, when you search online for a travel company – hotel, airline, or whatever – you expect that the search will prominently return that hotel’s or airline’s website. Not so.
From the Book of Ecclesiastes to George Shearing and the Ray Charles Singers, folks have been reminding us “There’s nothing new under the sun.” That was my take when I started this column; many of the “latest” travel scam warnings could be from decades ago – timeshare buy-out scams, ingenious ways pickpockets try to distract you while grabbing your wallet, forcing you to buy a worthless trinket.
Today’s most widespread deception remains mandatory hotel fees. Instead of posting a rate of $150, a hotel posts the rate at $110, with fine print somewhere that you must pay an additional “resort” fee of $40. In areas such as midtown Manhattan where using the term “resort” would be ludicrous, hotels use “facility,” “destination,” or some other nonsense term.
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