Was just checking prices for For Burt hotel for the night before we begin our charter with Conch in June. Room rate was $99 (very reasonable), taxes were listed at $38.80 (yikes). That is almost 40% in "taxes". Am I missing something here?
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As other's have pointed out, there is a 10% hotel/accommodation tax. So the other $30/night they are charging you is likely their own markup which they are trying to pass off as mandatory such as "service fee", "resort fee", etc etc. This is marketing at it's lowest level. They hook you with their "low" rate then screw you. And it probably works. People use various search engines and find the nightly rate they feel comfortable with only to find out later in the process that the rate really was something higher.
