Sting in the tail.

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Also remember that the price you see on the menu's & in shops is not the price you pay, there could be state & federal tax on top, which can also differ depending which county you are in
 

screenman

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Loads of places are doing this.
We had to pay a tax in Ibiza last year.
This years we are being hit by $80 turkey tourist visas.
No one tells you this when you book.


I think we do via high airport taxes.

The queue at Heathrow to recover VAT on all tourist purchases is always huge. We could just stop that.

Out Turkey visa is only $20, I guess you are x4
 

mjr

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Is it a real tax, or just a charge the vendor has invented to make more money?
An invention, at least in this case, called a "resort fee" not a tax - http://www.resortfeechecker.com/126913-resort_fee_new_yorker_wyndham_hotel.html says it really is over $30 per room per night, which seems like one heck of a hidden fee. I agree with @Milkfloat - if the agent is EU-based and didn't tell you, then this smells illegal, like the hidden charges that the Competitions and Market Authority is currently pursuing comparison sites for.
 

PK99

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Is it a real tax, or just a charge the vendor has invented to make more money?

Two things are being conflated here:

Resort fees which hotels (mainly in US and Mexico) use as a means of showing low room rate on comparison sites and of avoiding paying commission to the referring site on the resort fee part of the price. Can be very large! This is illegal it the EU.

And

Tourist tax, a real tax levied by local tax authorities and usually small.
 
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