Tips to Reduce Your Hotel Fees
Jane Engle has published tips and tricks on avoiding extra hotel fees and pre-travel preparation you can do to avoid those fees.
Here’s one of the tips for staying in a hotel with no free breakfast:
“Go out for breakfast. On my Chicago trip, I ate breakfast at a cafe half a block from the Palmer House Hilton. A plate of eggs, bacon, potatoes and toast cost $4.79 - half the price at the hotel.
At the Biltmore, my breakfast at Smeraldi’s Restaurant was a symphony of fluffy scrambled eggs, spicy potatoes, ham, toast, and snappy service. But the bill, with coffee, totaled $16.25, plus tax and tip.
Lawrance acknowledged that hotel restaurants may charge more than the going rate for meals. But food operations at hotels often have higher labor and operating costs because they are open 18 or 24 hours each day, seven days a week, to serve guests, he said. Another option: Nearly 60 percent of hotels in the lodging association’s survey offer free breakfast.”
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