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13 Hidden Hotel Fees You Might Not Know About But Should

401(K) 2012/Flickr Additional Reporting by Laura Ratliff. Luxury hotels sometimes come at a price — and we don’t mean the room rate. According to a report from New York University’s Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism, extra fees and surcharges collected by U.S. hotels rang in a whopping $2.47 billion in 2015, compared…

Hotels from Hell: The 10 Places to Avoid at All Costs

We all know that stomach-sinking sensation of showing up to a hotel and finding that it is nothing like we expected. Critters for roommates, chemical plants on the premises (with just “a safe amount of pollution,” the hotel promises), bulletproof glass in reception… When you only get one or two vacations a year, you don’t…