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\nThis article was originally printed on June 12, 2013, but I did not now about it. <\/p>\n
\tOn a personal note, I saw an ad for the new "D" hotel Downtown, the cost of the room was $18 per night, BUT, there is a resort fee of $15 per night added to it. I guess the only good thing about the resort fee is that it does not have the standard high tax attached to it. <\/p>\n
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\tFrom Las Vegas Sun
\n\tBy Ed Komenda<\/p>\n
\tThe Golden Nugget, an anchor of downtown Las Vegas, plans to start July 1 charging hotel guests $5 a night for the Fremont Street Experience.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIt\u2019s not a resort fee,\u201d said Tiffany Hauck, the Golden Nugget\u2019s public relations manger. \u201cIt\u2019s a Fremont Street Experience fee.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe fee will be the first charged for the Fremont Street Experience among any of the eight casino-hotels that collectively fund the overhead light show.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThere are significant costs associated with maintaining the Fremont Street Experience,\u201d Hauck said in a statement, \u201cand rather than raise hotel rates or charge high resort fees, we have chosen to keep our rates low and implement a nominal $5 fee.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tAnyone who books now for a stay after July 1 will be charged the fee. Those who booked a room before June 1 will not incur the fee.<\/p>\n
\tTom Bruny, a spokesman for the Fremont Street Experience’s board, said the Golden Nugget pays a monthly fee to fund the experience, but that fee has not been increased in some time. Bruny would not say how much the Golden Nugget pays each month.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThat was a Golden Nugget decision,\u201d Bruny said. \u201cYou\u2019ll have to ask them about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tBut the casino has the freedom to initiate any fee it wants, he said.<\/p>\n
\tGolden Nugget officials were not immediately available to comment on the specifics behind their decision to charge the fee.<\/p>\n
\tIncreasing resort fees is a growing trend on the Strip, where fees range from $5 to $25 a night.<\/p>\n
\tAfter years of marketing no resort fees at its hotels, Caesars Entertainment rolled out a $25 resort fee in early March.<\/p>\n
\tCaesars officials at the time said guests requested the fees because they prefer to pay a packaged price rather than multiple separate fees. The South Point also started charging a fee on the same day.<\/p>\n
\tExperts say the new fee at the Golden Nugget shouldn\u2019t have much impact on downtown visitation.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThere are visitors that stay downtown for the discount lodging. To that end, a cursory glance of the Golden Nugget\u2019s website indicates that rooms are going for roughly $47-$55 midweek and $109-$149 on the weekends,\u201d said Bill Lerner, an analyst with Union Gaming. \u201cWe don\u2019t think an additional $5 fee will discourage many<\/p>\n
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