The resort

2022 - 8 - 24

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Whatever happened to those resort fees everyone hates? (The Washington Post)

Industry watchers thought a settlement late last year would spell the end of hotel resort fees, but the mandatory daily charges remain widespread.

In the past three months, he says, the number of hotels charging a resort fee has ballooned by 7.2 percent. “With hotel demand returning this year, we have seen a recent surge in the number of hotels charging resort fees,” Greencorn says. Resort fees are still here, and they’re on the upswing. The company seems to be making some progress: Rhoads says the Marriott site now allows users to click a box that generates all the pricing info inclusive of the resort fees. “The process just takes time,” he says. He notes that some are still in the discovery phase and won’t go to court until next year. I know of several cases where a credit card dispute led to the removal of an undisclosed resort fee. Rubino, the president of a cleaning products company, says the amenities they could receive were specific. When he checked to see what the fee covered, he found a disclosure on its site that said it was for “certain amenities or facilities.” They might suggest you pay with a particular credit card to avoid the fee. “Thanks to this settlement, we’re putting the hotel industry on notice to put an end to this deceptive practice.” Many incorrectly assumed that the settlement would kill all resort fees within a few months.

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'The Resort' Stars Cristin Milioti and William Jackson Harper on How ... (Daily Beast)

That's the benefit of having a mind-boggling, existential, genre-warping TV series. When anything's up for interpretation, people will interpret it. They'll ...

Though the last few episodes of The Resort force the characters to trek into the jungle, one of the best aspects of the show is the titular resort. Both Milioti and Harper say they’ve never seen anything like it, that it was the “craziest” set design they’ve ever worked on. There’s a bit of rom-com to The Resort (perhaps in the Modern Romance way, falling out of love, rather than in it), meshed with adventure, thriller, and psychological drama. It’s hard to predict what’s going to happen in the final beats of the show, perhaps because The Resort is truly like nothing else that’s ever aired before. Milioti signals that her dog, Rupert, recognizes the bark and looks around. “Honestly, reading it, I was like, ‘I’m not sure: Is it a comedy, but is it a comedy? “I’m drawn to things that can’t quite be put in one category,” Milioti says, realizing she’s in existential crises in a good handful of her recent roles: in Palm Springs, she’s stuck in a time loop, and in Made For Love, she’s trapped inside an evil billionaire’s fake world. The ground does plenty of shifting in The Resort—both literally and figuratively—while Emma (Milioti) and Noah (Harper) try to solve a decades-old mystery case in the Mayan Riviera. Two teenagers disappeared in 2007, and when Emma finds one of their phones, she decides to use the opportunity to revitalize her marriage with Noah while also saving the day. It has [something to do with June Squibb’s Nana character](https://screenrant.com/palm-springs-hulu-nana-time-loop-theory/). They’ll compare it to real life, like the flurries of fans are doing on TikTok. “You wind up in territory where, since there’s less of an outline we’re familiar with, there’s a lot less room for people watching and saying what you should’ve done.

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