Up-to-date as of 10/23/17.
If you’ve booked a room in Atlantic City, you are well aware that the price you see advertised is not the price you pay. Sometimes it’s not even close. Whether it’s a “comped” night that ends up costing $32 or an already-expensive $300 Friday-through-Sunday stay that balloons to more than $390, the fees and taxes are a frustrating element of booking rooms at casino hotels.
Well, when you throw in $5 toward self-parking…
In Atlantic City, the hotel tax rate is a whopping 13.875%, and New Jersey tacks on another $5 in fees. (For comparison’s sake, Las Vegas has a hotel tax rate of 12% and no occupancy fee.) All of that is before you get hit with the resort fee, which is the hotel’s way of giving you a bundle of amenities at one low price keeping the advertised price low while increasing their Average Daily Rate.
To make matters more confusing, some AC properties include the $5 of New Jersey fees in the resort fee while others keep them separate. Plus the resort fee is subject to the 13.875% tax while the $3 occupancy fee is not, and hotels differ on whether or not the tax is included in the listed resort fee, and some casinos add tax on the $2 tourism promotion fee while others don’t. Digesting all of that?
