The Motif website says they charge a daily $13+tax "resort fee" on top of all of the other local taxes. I can't find mention of that anywhere on my Onpeak reservation so I don't know if I should assume that means we won't be charged anything else? Has anyone stayed there in the past, and was this added on?
It won't show up on the 3rd party booking site. Resort fees are a mandatory charge outside of the listed rate and taxes. The average is $25 and few places can go to $100. It can be above the room rate too. It's totally legal, and seems to have developed because of online booking. Hotel finder sites work by taking a percent of the rate for anybody who books through them. This of course reduces what a hotel would get of course. So hotels are adding a fee not part of the rate so they can recoup the online sites' cuts. I was so mad the first time I hit one of those.
The Motif website says they charge a daily $13+tax "resort fee" on top of all of the other local taxes. I can't find mention of that anywhere on my Onpeak reservation so I don't know if I should assume that means we won't be charged anything else? Has anyone stayed there in the past, and was this added on?
It won't show up on the 3rd party booking site. Resort fees are a mandatory charge outside of the listed rate and taxes. The average is $25 and few places can go to $100. It can be above the room rate too. It's totally legal, and seems to have developed because of online booking. Hotel finder sites work by taking a percent of the rate for anybody who books through them. This of course reduces what a hotel would get of course. So hotels are adding a fee not part of the rate so they can recoup the online sites' cuts. I was so mad the first time I hit one of those.
Awesome, thanks! I'm used to resort fees because I go to Vegas a lot and it's pretty much standard there, I just hadn't seen it start popping up in other cities. And I wasn't sure how that worked with the 3rd party site. I'm not surprised though that it's happening more, what you said makes sense.
The Motif website says they charge a daily $13+tax "resort fee" on top of all of the other local taxes. I can't find mention of that anywhere on my Onpeak reservation so I don't know if I should assume that means we won't be charged anything else? Has anyone stayed there in the past, and was this added on?
It won't show up on the 3rd party booking site. Resort fees are a mandatory charge outside of the listed rate and taxes. The average is $25 and few places can go to $100. It can be above the room rate too. It's totally legal, and seems to have developed because of online booking. Hotel finder sites work by taking a percent of the rate for anybody who books through them. This of course reduces what a hotel would get of course. So hotels are adding a fee not part of the rate so they can recoup the online sites' cuts. I was so mad the first time I hit one of those.
Awesome, thanks! I'm used to resort fees because I go to Vegas a lot and it's pretty much standard there, I just hadn't seen it start popping up in other cities. And I wasn't sure how that worked with the 3rd party site. I'm not surprised though that it's happening more, what you said makes sense.
I didn't see a sizable one on any of the other OnPeak hotels. But I'm very interested in keeping track of whether or not anyone pays one this year, so we can go into next year informed.
Just a heads up, there are a ton of hotels added to OnPeak now - Lots of them currently have TBD but there are some new hotels listed such as Hotel Monaco, Executive Hotel Pacific, Four Seasons Hotel Seattle and more.
Doesn't look like you can book them yet but if you are missing hotels, refresh that shit.
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They're probably just the published rates that you'd get from going to the hotel websites. As for why they're showing up through onpeak? Your guess is as good as mine.
As much as I love being right next to the convention center, if they somehow got group rates for the Four Seasons, then even my laziness probably wouldn't be able to overcome the temptation.
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Does the site allow you to add days to an existing reservation? Like, if HotelX has Thu-Sun available right now, and I book that. Then, later I see that Monday becomes available, can I add that to my existing reservation?
Does the site allow you to add days to an existing reservation? Like, if HotelX has Thu-Sun available right now, and I book that. Then, later I see that Monday becomes available, can I add that to my existing reservation?
Yes, you can change the check in/check out dates through a drop down menu assuming it's available.
Does the site allow you to add days to an existing reservation? Like, if HotelX has Thu-Sun available right now, and I book that. Then, later I see that Monday becomes available, can I add that to my existing reservation?
As long as your reservation remains one contiguous stay.
As much as I love being right next to the convention center, if they somehow got group rates for the Four Seasons, then even my laziness probably wouldn't be able to overcome the temptation.
Looks like our PAX discount is $40 a night since it went down from $659 to $619. Book away and enjoy your opulent stay.
As much as I love being right next to the convention center, if they somehow got group rates for the Four Seasons, then even my laziness probably wouldn't be able to overcome the temptation.
Looks like our PAX discount is $40 a night since it went down from $659 to $619. Book away and enjoy your opulent stay.
Hmm, I keep getting a "There was an issue with the hotel requested" error message when I try to find the rates for Thursday to Monday.
Anyone else finding these new hotel listings really distracting? I mean, it's great that there's more options but I wish I could just filter on the "core" block.
Hello All! I posted a little while ago about trying to set up a swap for a Thursday night at the Grand Hyatt, but I have since been lucky enough to get all days but Saturday at the Sheraton, so I'm looking for a new trade! See details below:
I have: Grand Hyatt two-bed reservation Friday-Monday
I need: Sheraton Deluxe two-bed room for Saturday night
If you have the Sheraton room and would like to trade, please PM me and I will work to set up a time. Thank you!
Anyone else finding these new hotel listings really distracting? I mean, it's great that there's more options but I wish I could just filter on the "core" block.
And unnecessary. To my knowledge, there isn't any savings or rooms you couldn't get to via normal search methods. So the new hotels are just saving you a trip to Hotels.com.
Wed-Tuesday is up right now at Hyatt at Olive 8(had a good stay there previously), and a thurs-tue at the Renaissance opened up(my previous reservation)
I have a question about splitting hotels. Me and my friends are trying to get a stay at the Sheraton. But as you know it's pretty hard. We are grabbing a day at a time on separate cards and names (me getting thursday and a friend getting sunday so far. Still need Friday and saturday) my question is when we get all 4 days we want but they are all under different names would I be able to call on peak and ask them to combine them all for me into one room stay?
I hope so! But it may not work that way. If OnPeak doesn't help you out with that, the hotel itself might be able to once the reservations are transferred over to the hotel.
I hope so! But it may not work that way. If OnPeak doesn't help you out with that, the hotel itself might be able to once the reservations are transferred over to the hotel.
Still trying to nab a Monday for my Crowne Plaza reservation *grumblegrumble*
In reality though, I'm happy folks are getting their full days they need. At the very least I have two rooms to cover the entirety of my stay but just don't want to go through the hassle of switching rooms.
I couldn't get Saturday for the Grand Hyatt, so I just dropped my thurs-fri and sun-tue, so if you've been waiting to snag a full set it's almost all up right now!
Still trying to nab a Monday for my Crowne Plaza reservation *grumblegrumble*
In reality though, I'm happy folks are getting their full days they need. At the very least I have two rooms to cover the entirety of my stay but just don't want to go through the hassle of switching rooms.
I didn't want to voice this suspicion earlier in case it made it come true, but I don't think Crowned Plaza even had any two-bed rooms for Monday night to begin with (please someone come in here and prove me wrong)
It was a small detail but if you look at the calendar view for single and double bed rooms, the single beds say they are "sold out" for Monday night whereas two-beds say "unavailable" instead.
Still trying to nab a Monday for my Crowne Plaza reservation *grumblegrumble*
In reality though, I'm happy folks are getting their full days they need. At the very least I have two rooms to cover the entirety of my stay but just don't want to go through the hassle of switching rooms.
I didn't want to voice this suspicion earlier in case it made it come true, but I don't think Crowned Plaza even had any two-bed rooms for Monday night to begin with (please someone come in here and prove me wrong)
It was a small detail but if you look at the calendar view for single and double bed rooms, the single beds say they are "sold out" for Monday night whereas two-beds say "unavailable" instead.
I'm just being paranoid, right?
You're absolutely right...
I just checked on the hotel website and 2 queen rooms for Monday night are coming up at 214.37 which I believe isn't too far from the group rate. Also, executive king suite Monday night is 258.02
Does the Grand Hyatt still charge about $200 extra at check in for the security deposit (or maybe it was called a maid/housekeeping fee)? Last time hubby and I stayed there was 4 years ago, and they charged and refunded after our stay.
I didn't want to voice this suspicion earlier in case it made it come true, but I don't think Crowned Plaza even had any two-bed rooms for Monday night to begin with (please someone come in here and prove me wrong)
It was a small detail but if you look at the calendar view for single and double bed rooms, the single beds say they are "sold out" for Monday night whereas two-beds say "unavailable" instead.
I'm just being paranoid, right?
I've seen it do the same thing for single bed rooms in my layout, but you might be right as I've never seen any doubles pop up for Monday this past month.
I might give OnPeak a call and see if they can help me out on consolidating the reservation.
UPDATE: I called OnPeak and they told me that two-bed Crowne Plaza rooms are unavailable entirely for Monday night. I find it entirely silly since there's one-bed options available for the same window but who knows.
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It won't show up on the 3rd party booking site. Resort fees are a mandatory charge outside of the listed rate and taxes. The average is $25 and few places can go to $100. It can be above the room rate too. It's totally legal, and seems to have developed because of online booking. Hotel finder sites work by taking a percent of the rate for anybody who books through them. This of course reduces what a hotel would get of course. So hotels are adding a fee not part of the rate so they can recoup the online sites' cuts. I was so mad the first time I hit one of those.
There is a list of Seattle hotels here and what fees they have.
Awesome, thanks! I'm used to resort fees because I go to Vegas a lot and it's pretty much standard there, I just hadn't seen it start popping up in other cities. And I wasn't sure how that worked with the 3rd party site. I'm not surprised though that it's happening more, what you said makes sense.
I didn't see a sizable one on any of the other OnPeak hotels. But I'm very interested in keeping track of whether or not anyone pays one this year, so we can go into next year informed.
Doesn't look like you can book them yet but if you are missing hotels, refresh that shit.
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Could be just a place holder right now. Keep in mind all of these hotel's daily rates are usually up there, PAX gets us a discount through OnPeak
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Why not go all out and put the $6,000/night presidential suite on onpeak :lol
Yes, you can change the check in/check out dates through a drop down menu assuming it's available.
As long as your reservation remains one contiguous stay.
Looks like our PAX discount is $40 a night since it went down from $659 to $619. Book away and enjoy your opulent stay.
Hmm, I keep getting a "There was an issue with the hotel requested" error message when I try to find the rates for Thursday to Monday.
I have: Grand Hyatt two-bed reservation Friday-Monday
I need: Sheraton Deluxe two-bed room for Saturday night
If you have the Sheraton room and would like to trade, please PM me and I will work to set up a time. Thank you!
And unnecessary. To my knowledge, there isn't any savings or rooms you couldn't get to via normal search methods. So the new hotels are just saving you a trip to Hotels.com.
Perfect thank you!
Now I don't have to switch from a Deluxe room to a regular room on Friday!
Daily checking of onpeak done!
That's awesome! I'm still looking for the Saturday Deluxe room. It's a little nerve-wracking to still be looking so close to PAX though.
In reality though, I'm happy folks are getting their full days they need. At the very least I have two rooms to cover the entirety of my stay but just don't want to go through the hassle of switching rooms.
I'm still waiting for a Friday and Saturday deluxe to show up to complete with me thuraday and sunday.
I didn't want to voice this suspicion earlier in case it made it come true, but I don't think Crowned Plaza even had any two-bed rooms for Monday night to begin with (please someone come in here and prove me wrong)
It was a small detail but if you look at the calendar view for single and double bed rooms, the single beds say they are "sold out" for Monday night whereas two-beds say "unavailable" instead.
I'm just being paranoid, right?
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You're absolutely right...
I just checked on the hotel website and 2 queen rooms for Monday night are coming up at 214.37 which I believe isn't too far from the group rate. Also, executive king suite Monday night is 258.02
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I've seen it do the same thing for single bed rooms in my layout, but you might be right as I've never seen any doubles pop up for Monday this past month.
I might give OnPeak a call and see if they can help me out on consolidating the reservation.
UPDATE: I called OnPeak and they told me that two-bed Crowne Plaza rooms are unavailable entirely for Monday night. I find it entirely silly since there's one-bed options available for the same window but who knows.