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RP: hotel room tax question

I am booking a hotel room for us to stay in Napa for a wedding we are in.  I checked out the price at hotels.com and on the website for the hotel.  The nightly price is the same for each site.  But when I did a check out just to see the room tax for each hotel hotels.com was over $100 (I cant remember but over $100) and the website for the hotel was only about $35.  Why is they such a differance in room tax?  Will we get a suprise at the hotel with the higher room tax if we book thru the site?  I think the total thru hotels.com over $600 but for the hotels website it was $530 I think.  The hotel is marriot spring hill.  Anyone book thru Marriot and have a differant charge then what you were told online.  Would it be best to call the hotel and ask them about the tax.  I just have never seen a tax differance because I mostly book thru the hotels website I have booked once thru hotels.com and never looked at the hotels website while booking.  I always bring the print out of the pricing with me incase they try to charge us more on the room then we were told on the site.

Re: RP: hotel room tax question

  • Yes, call the hotel directly and ask.

    It doesn't matter if you bring the print out. That only applies to the room pricing. You have to pay the tax no matter what is on the print out, which always says something to that effect.

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  • I called and they lady said hotel tax is between $13-$40 a night which goes in with what their hotel website is telling me per night.  Wonder why hotels.com is giving me something differant.  I even did the nick your stay for my daughter (she hardly stays in hotels with us thought this may help her staying in one) and it made the room rate go up $10 more then hotels.com which said that was free thru them and my room tax still should be chaper then hotels.com.  Oh well I booked thru the hotel website. 
  • I've had differences show up across websites when there's a resort fee.  Could this be the discrepency?  Hotels.com might be including the resort fee but the hotel website isn't?
  • I book through marriott.com at least once a month.  The price they give on their website has always been pretty accurate.

    As far as the Nick promo - from what I gather, its only free at certain resorts.  I stayed at a Fairfield Inn last week, and they were charging $10 for the Nick package, but I believe that if you stay at the Renissance (and maybe their Marriott brand too) hotel,  you get the Nick package for free.

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