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: July 3, 2026 · 48 properties · Sourced entirely from hotels' own websites and authorized travel partners — no internal booking data used.
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. That's a swing of more than 2x for the same hotel, same fee, checked in the same window. 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 — then found the same tracking site disagreeing with hotels' own official pages by as much as $18 a night on three separate properties (details in Finding #2). Rather than pick a number and move on, we re-verified against primary sources everywhere we could, and we're publishing the gaps, not just the averages.
Key findings
- Highest confirmed fee: $69/night pre-tax at Ocean Key Resort, Key West — official source, corroborated.
- Las Vegas convergence: Six Strip properties now cluster at $50–$55/night. MGM Resorts raised group fees by $5 across Bellagio, Aria, Cosmopolitan, and The Venetian in December 2024.
- 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.
- Confirmed fee-free: Halekulani (Honolulu), Grand Hyatt Nashville, Universal's Hard Rock Hotel Orlando, both Disney-owned Anaheim properties, and The Roosevelt New Orleans.
Finding: the trackers don't always agree with the hotels
Across this project we found three cases where a popular fee-tracking site's figure conflicted materially with a hotel's own disclosure or with multiple independent sources:
| Property | Tracker figure | Verified figure | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fontainebleau Miami Beach | $67.26/night | $49/night (official FAQ) | $18.26 |
| W South Beach | $85.50/night | $40–75/night (firsthand + travel partner) | up to $45.50 |
| Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage | $56.50/night | $50/night (3 independent sources) | $6.50 |
None of this is necessarily bad faith — fees change often, and keeping a database current across thousands of properties is genuinely hard. But it's a reminder that "a fee checker said so" and "the hotel says so" aren't always the same thing, and it's why we cite primary sources wherever one exists.
Full dataset
Fees shown are mandatory, pre-tax, per room, per night, as disclosed by each property. N/C = not confirmed from public sources. CONFLICT = sources disagree by a material margin; no single figure is published. Full sourcing and notes for every row are documented in our methodology.
| City | Hotel | Fee (pre-tax) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas | Bellagio | $55.00 | Secondary (news) |
| Las Vegas | Aria | $55.00 | Secondary (news) |
| Las Vegas | Caesars Palace | $54.95 | Secondary — unresolved conflict |
| 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
All data collected July 3, 2026, from public sources only: hotels' own fee-disclosure or FAQ pages (primary), hotel-authorized travel partner pages (secondary), and independent fee-tracking sites used strictly as a cross-check, never as a sole uncorroborated source for a headline figure. Where sources disagreed materially and couldn't be resolved against an official page, we marked the property CONFLICT or N/C rather than publish a number we weren't confident in. Fees change without notice and can vary by room type, rate, and season — treat every figure here as a point-in-time snapshot, not a permanent price.
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.