tlmadden73
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2014
It's obviously not Disney, but Las Vegas' has parking fees, that are higher as well, and it may be costing them visitors. I guess only time will tell if the fees have in impact on visitors coming to the Mouse.
http://www.latimes.com/travel/lasve...s-may-mean-fewer-visitors-20180501-story.html
Hopefully the outrage is enough that this deceptive "fee" concept can be eliminated across the board. Just man up and charge what you need to charge - all inclusive. No customer likes being nickel-and-dimed to death on things they really have no option to opt out of.
People like "free" things. Most suburban hotels give you free breakfast. In reality, it isn't free .. the hotel could probably charge $10+ a night less, but people like that value.
If the Hampton Inn started charging guests a $10/person "breakfast fee" instead of just raising their prices $10 -- you'd have a lot of upset customers that may just do business elsewhere. I don't see it worth the risk, but I am no business major.
I just don't understand the concept of places charging people to PARK to come to their establishment when that is how people use it. In most cases, the parking lot isn't used for anything else but THAT establishment. That's basically like a cover charge. What if Best Buy started charging a cover charge just for walking in the door? What if Target charged a shopping cart fee? What if table service restaurants started charging a "dinnerware cleaning fee"?
The goal of a business is to make money. Putting barriers (fees) just for your customers to drive to your place is just lazy to me. It's saying .. we want to raise prices but hopefully our customers are too dumb to realize that a parking fee IS raising the price.
Fees seem to do nothing but anger consumers, which seem opposite of what businesses (especially VACATION businesses) should be striving to do.
Just price what you want and let the customers decide what the best value is.