Before you book that hotel room

[Consumer Reports]   Dear Friend: - Resort fee: $36 per day - WiFi fee: $9.99 per day - In-room safe: $2 per day The last time you checked out of a hotel, it’s likely you got hit with one or more of these fees that left you stunned as you walked away – or arguing with the desk clerk as the line grew behind you. It’s time to end these unadvertised, hidden hotel fees that take $2.9 billion a year out of our wallets. Consumer Reports’ ‘What the Fee?!’ campaign is calling for a new law to require hotels to disclose all fees upfront in the room price – and a bill launched TODAY in Congress that will do just that! [Will you send a quick email to your Representative to support this bill and get it passed? If we stand together and demand change, we can end this sneaky practice!](  [Send your message »](  As hotel shopping websites began exploding (think Hotels.com or Expedia) so did hotel fees. Hotels competed to have the lowest price, often shifting their costs to add-on fees, which many times aren’t picked up when you comparison shop online. This proliferation of hotel fees has now left consumers struggling to figure out the true cost of a room before making a reservation. And it seems each day we hear about more new fees – from charges for towels to in-room safes. The bipartisan bill just introduced in the House of Representatives would require hotels to include all fees in the advertised price of the room, so you can truly comparison shop and know what you’re getting into before you click ‘Book.’ [Ask your Representative to sign on in support of this common-sense rule that will end these sneaky add-on fees!](  [Send your message »](  After you take action, the next important step is to share this with friends and family so they can contact their Representative. We can stop unfair practices like this in the marketplace if enough consumers speak out together. Thank you for taking action, and I’ll be back in touch soon with more updates on our ‘What the Fee?!’ work. Tim Marvin Consumer Reports [Unsubscribe from Consumer Reports action alerts.]( © 2018 Consumer Reports, 101 Truman Avenue, Yonkers, NY, 10703 [Contact Consumer Reports](