Resort Fee Index 2026
A public-source audit of mandatory hotel fees across 14 U.S. leisure destinations — and what we learned about how hard "the real price" is to pin down, even for us.
Point-in-time snapshot published July 3, 2026 · 48 properties · Figures gathered from public sources between April and July 2026, each marked by source · No internal booking data used · Corrected September 25, 2026 (see Methodology).
Resort fees, destination fees, amenity fees — whatever a hotel calls them, they're the charge that shows up after you've already picked a room, sometimes adding $25 to $69+ a night before tax. A federal rule effective in 2025 and a New York City rule effective this February both now require hotels to show the full price upfront. So we set out to answer a simple question: what are hotels actually charging, right now, according to their own disclosures?
It turned out to be harder to answer than we expected — and that difficulty became one of the most useful findings in this research.
The headline number
$69 a night, pre-tax — Ocean Key Resort, Key West. We confirmed this directly from the hotel's own website (oceankey.com, checked April 2026) and it's independently corroborated by an authorized travel partner at the identical figure. That combination — a live official disclosure plus a matching third party — is the gold standard we used throughout this project, and it's the highest fee in our dataset that we're fully confident in.
Contrast that with W South Beach in Miami, where we found three credible sources giving three different answers: a recent firsthand paid-stay account at $40/night, an authorized travel partner listing $75/night, and a well-known fee-tracking site listing $85.50/night. The last is exactly $75 plus 14%, which looks like tax added on top, so the real disagreement is between $40 and $75: still almost a 2x swing for the same hotel and the same fee. We couldn't responsibly publish a single number for that property, so we didn't. It's marked as an open conflict below.
Why this matters more than a typical fee list
Most "resort fee roundups" quietly borrow numbers from a single tracking site and present them as fact. We started that way too, and found that tracker's figures running higher than other sources on three properties. Each was exactly a round fee plus 13 or 14%, which looks like tax added on top, while hotels usually quote resort fees before tax. Take that out and one gap remains (details below). Rather than pick a number and move on, we checked against primary sources wherever we could, and every figure below is marked with where it came from.
Key findings
- Highest confirmed fee: $69/night pre-tax at Ocean Key Resort, Key West — official source, corroborated.
- Las Vegas convergence: Seven of the eight Strip properties we checked sit at $50–$55/night. The eighth, Caesars Palace, is an unresolved conflict, so we publish no figure for it.
- Scottsdale's $55 floor: All three major Scottsdale luxury resorts — The Phoenician, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, and Camelback Inn — charge exactly $55/night. The Fairmont is unusually transparent, itemizing an approximate $213/day value behind its fee.
- NYC rule ≠ fee ban: New York's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection rule, effective February 21, 2026, requires hotels to show the full price upfront — it does not prohibit resort fees. Fee status at three major NYC hotels we checked is genuinely unconfirmed from public sources post-rule, precisely because the fee (if any) is now folded into one displayed total rather than broken out.
- No mandatory fee found: Grand Hyatt Nashville, Universal's Hard Rock Hotel Orlando and Disney's Grand Californian (from each hotel's own site), plus Halekulani (Honolulu), the Disneyland Hotel and The Roosevelt New Orleans (from secondary sources).
Finding: most of the tracker gap looks like tax
Across this project, a popular fee-tracking site's figures ran higher than other sources on three properties. Each of those figures is exactly a round fee plus 13 or 14%, the pattern tax added on top would leave, while hotels usually quote resort fees before tax. Taking that percentage back out closes two of the three gaps:
| Property | Tracker figure | Tracker figure less 13–14% | Other sources | Remaining gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fontainebleau Miami Beach | $67.26/night | $59.00 (÷ 1.14) | $49/night (official FAQ) | $10 |
| W South Beach | $85.50/night | $75.00 (÷ 1.14) | $75/night (travel partner); $40/night (firsthand stay) | None against the travel partner |
| Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage | $56.50/night | $50.00 (÷ 1.13) | $50/night (3 independent sources) | None |
Only Fontainebleau Miami Beach keeps a real gap: $59 a night against the $49 on the hotel's own FAQ. None of this is necessarily bad faith. Fees change often, and keeping a database current across thousands of properties is hard. The practical lesson is to check whether a fee figure includes tax before comparing it with another, and it's why we cite primary sources wherever one exists.
Full dataset
Fees shown are mandatory, per room, per night, as reported by the source in the last column. Hotels usually quote resort fees before tax, but three secondary figures appear to include it (see Methodology). N/C = not confirmed from public sources. CONFLICT = sources disagree by a material margin; no single figure is published.
| City | Hotel | Fee per night | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas | Bellagio | $55.00 | Secondary (news) |
| Las Vegas | Aria | $55.00 | Secondary (news) |
| Las Vegas | Caesars Palace | CONFLICT | Secondary sources disagree, unresolved |
| Las Vegas | The Venetian | $55.00 | Official |
| Las Vegas | Wynn Las Vegas | $55.00 | Official |
| Las Vegas | MGM Grand | $50.00 | Secondary (news) |
| Las Vegas | Fontainebleau Las Vegas | $55.00 | Official |
| Las Vegas | The Cosmopolitan | $55.00 | Secondary (news) |
| Honolulu/Waikiki | Hilton Hawaiian Village | $59.00 | Secondary |
| Honolulu/Waikiki | Royal Hawaiian | $52.00 | Secondary |
| Maui | Grand Wailea | $55.00 | Official |
| Honolulu/Waikiki | Halekulani | $0 (no fee) | Secondary |
| Honolulu/Waikiki | Sheraton Waikiki | $36.00 | Official — conflicts with secondary ($61) |
| Miami Beach | Fontainebleau Miami Beach | $49.00 | Official |
| Miami Beach | The Setai | N/C | — |
| Miami Beach | Loews Miami Beach | $50.00 | Official |
| Miami Beach | Eden Roc Miami Beach | $51.30 | Secondary — directional only |
| Miami Beach | W South Beach | CONFLICT | 3-source conflict, unresolved |
| Orlando | Walt Disney World Swan | $50.00 | Secondary (planDisney) |
| Orlando | Universal's Hard Rock Hotel | $0 (no fee) | Official |
| Orlando | Four Seasons Orlando | N/C | — |
| Orlando | Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes | $55.00 | Official |
| Key West | Ocean Key Resort | $69.00 | Official, corroborated |
| Key West | The Reach Key West | $67.50 | Secondary — directional only |
| Key West | Casa Marina Key West | $60.00 | Secondary — directional only |
| Palm Springs | Parker Palm Springs | $50.00 | Official |
| Rancho Mirage | The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage | $50.00 | Corroborated (3 sources) |
| La Quinta | La Quinta Resort & Club | $39.98 | Secondary — directional only |
| San Diego/Coronado | Hotel del Coronado | $50.00 (+$15 preservation fee) | Secondary — directional only |
| San Diego | Manchester Grand Hyatt | $47.00 | Official |
| San Diego | Pendry San Diego | $52.22 | Official |
| New York City | The Plaza | N/C | Disclosure rule in effect |
| New York City | Peninsula New York | N/C | Disclosure rule in effect |
| New York City | Ritz-Carlton New York NoMad | N/C | Disclosure rule in effect |
| New Orleans | Ritz-Carlton New Orleans | $57.00 | Secondary — directional only |
| New Orleans | The Roosevelt New Orleans | $0 (no fee) | Secondary |
| New Orleans | The Pontchartrain Hotel | $25.00 | Secondary — directional only |
| Scottsdale | The Phoenician | $55.00 | Official |
| Scottsdale | Fairmont Scottsdale Princess | $55.00 | Official |
| Scottsdale | Camelback Inn (JW Marriott) | $55.00 | Official |
| Nashville | Gaylord Opryland Resort | $32.93 | Secondary |
| Nashville | Grand Hyatt Nashville | $0 (no fee) | Official |
| Fort Lauderdale | Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale | $48.00 | Official |
| Fort Lauderdale | W Fort Lauderdale | $55.00 | Secondary — directional only |
| Anaheim | Disneyland Hotel | $0 (no fee) | Secondary (Disney policy) |
| Anaheim | Disney's Grand Californian | $0 (no fee) | Official |
| Myrtle Beach | Marriott Grande Dunes | $39.55 | Secondary — directional only |
| Myrtle Beach | Sheraton Broadway Resort | N/C | Timeshare structure, unconfirmed |
Methodology
Figures were gathered from public sources between April and July 2026, and the index was published July 3, 2026. The Source column gives each figure's origin: the hotel's own fee-disclosure or FAQ page (Official, 19 properties), another public source such as a travel partner, a news report or a fee-tracking site (Secondary, 20), or three independent sources in agreement (Corroborated, 1). Six properties are N/C, not confirmed from public sources, and two are CONFLICT, where sources disagree materially and no figure is published. The fee-tracking site we compared appears to quote fees with tax included, and three secondary figures marked "directional only" (Eden Roc, The Reach and Marriott Grande Dunes) are also a round fee plus 12.5 to 14%, so they may include tax too. Secondary figures can also be out of date, so treat them as approximate until they are re-checked against the hotels' own pages. Fees change without notice and can vary by room type, rate and season, so treat every figure here as a point-in-time snapshot, not a permanent price.
Corrected September 25, 2026. An earlier version said a fee tracker was wrong by up to $18 a night on three properties. Each of the tracker's three figures is exactly a round fee plus 13 or 14%, which looks like tax added on top; with that taken out, two of the gaps disappear and the one that remains is $10. We also withdrew the Caesars Palace figure because its sources conflict, removed a sentence that listed The Venetian among MGM Resorts hotels, marked which fee-free hotels come from secondary sources, and corrected the dates: figures were gathered between April and July 2026, not all on July 3. This methodology now states how many figures come from each kind of source.
Travorro is a travel booking platform built around showing the total price upfront. Have a correction or a more current figure for any property above? Let us know — we'll update this index.
About the Author
This article was written by our team of travorro research, professionals with extensive experience in the travel industry and deep knowledge of booking platforms, security practices, and travel optimization strategies.
About this article: Written by the Travorro team using real booking data, platform insights, and current travel industry trends. Last updated July 2026.