March 11--Vegas visitors may have to cough up a few more bucks for their hotel rooms now that resort fees have risen at five Caesars Entertainment properties on the Strip.
The resort fee climbed to $32 per room per day at Caesars Palace, as well as at Nobu, the Cromwell, Paris and Planet Hollywood.
The fee will remain at $29 at the company's other Las Vegas hotels. Adding insult to injury, a 12 percent tax is added to the fees too.
With exceptions only for big spenders, the resort fees are mandatory, even if guests don't use any of the included benefits: in-room Wi-Fi for two devices and free local phone calls. At the hotels that have fitness centers, passes for two people are also included. Word of the price jump in the widely disliked but increasingly common fee comes six weeks after MGM Resorts got heaps of backlash for announcing it would start charging for self- and valet parking at most of its Vegas holdings. A corporate spokesman said that while a specific date has yet to be determined, the parking fees will begin during the second quarter of 2016.
Jay Jones is a freelance writer.
