You check out of a downtown hotel, and your bill contains a "resort fee" of $20 a day for a fitness room you never entered, a pool towel that remained untouched and a coffeemaker you never used. Hidden fees are erupting throughout the lodgings industry, and it's important to stand up and challenge the deceptive practice.I've recently received messages from readers who recount the following outrages:- At the Franklin Hotel in New York, a reader finds a fee of $12 a day on his final bill. He's told, upon inquiring, that it's for Wi-Fi (wireless access to the Internet, which he never used). "Everyone charges that," says the hotel clerk.
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