Do credit card surcharges affect your choice of hotel?

[trippin_the_rift]

Almost every Australian hotel has some crazy bull**** credit card surcharge now.

However, some hotels still have the decency not to try and hit you with a few bucks on check-out.

Do credit card surcharges affect your choice of hotel?

 

[AnnaB]

Not really, I would first look at hotels with decent price/reviews that I might have loyalty or status with. Sometimes the surcharges are worth the extra perks the status gives you. Then not to forget the extra points when paying with my card too.

 

[Isochronous]

They affect my willingness to visit Australia!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

They affect my willingness to visit Australia!

You don't seem to have many positive things to say about Australia do you bucko?

But to answer OP's question not really - RB have decreed that businesses may levy CC fees - provided they do not exceed 3% for Amex or 2% for Visa/MC then no biggie to me - location, services and facilities will dictate booking choices more than existence of CC fees.

 

[yohy?!]

if its a chain i have status with then not really, usually would use a prepaid rate to avoid them.

 

[RooFlyer]

Good concept, but the poll is a bit limited in choices (and I appreciated why). There are degrees to everything, including my tolerance to cc fees; and certainly on business I tolerate them more than personal travel.

But in general I prepay and avoid the cc fees and get a cheaper rate with my 'loyalty' chains.

 

[samh004]

if its a chain i have status with then not really, usually would use a prepaid rate to avoid them.

This is my thinking too.

 

[JohnK]

Not really. I don't like credit card surcharges but at the end of the day a few dollars is not going to hurt.

 

[codash1099]

CC charges (like charging for wifi) leave a bad taste in my mouth and more especially so when they are unreasonably high (4% for Amex at a recent stay).

I'll take them into account where there is a narrow price difference between two otherwise equivalent hotels but this is pretty rare.

 

[ChrisFlyer]

I've not stayed with Rydges in years due to the 3.5% Amex surcharge when most other chains were billing around the 1.5% mark for all cards (making Rydges' charge more than double the competition). Now that some other chains have taken a similar path, Rydges is less 'alone' in doing that... but even so, when Accor and Hilton are accepting Amex for 1.3% and 1.5% respectively, it's a big plus (even better if you can combine that with status perks and an Amex offer), and truth be told, I've not stayed at a hotel with an Amex surcharge above 1.5% in the last year.

 

[straitman]

I haven't voted as the all is IMHO too narrow.

Having said that we are going to pay a CC surcharge whether it's incorporated in the account OR charged separately, it's just the exorbitant ones that get up my nose and whilst I may still book a hotel with higher charges it will only be after considering everything in perspective.

 

[Supersonic Swinger]

I don't pay any annual credit card fees and I try to avoid paying surcharges to use them.

My cash is more important than loyalty to a program designed by overpaid marketers to extract more money out members.

 

[amaroo]

No.

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[trippin_the_rift]

Seems the sentiment is surcharges suck, but not enough to really give a damn and change your behaviour?

 

[oz_mark]

Seems the sentiment is surcharges suck, but not enough to really give a damn and change your behaviour?

I just take it into account when comparing prices.....