LA Hotel Fee Index, October 2026: median stated self-parking charge is $30 a night

Key findings

• 280 hotels in the Los Angeles area state at least one fee in this index on their own website, out of 454 hotel websites with a detail read and 2,608 hotels in the market.
• Self-parking: 216 hotels state a price, 154 (71%) say it is free, and the 51 that state a charge have a median of $30 a night, the middle half from $20 to $40, range $10 to $79.
• Valet: 30 hotels state a charge, median $60.25 a night, range $25 to $79.
• Resort, destination or amenity fee: 31 hotels state a policy, 4 say there is none, and the 27 that state an amount have a median of $35 a night, range $3 to $125.
• Pet fee: 46 hotels state an amount, median $100, range $25 to $350.
• By area: 7 of 9 areas in the cut have at least 5 hotels stating a parking price; the rest are marked "too few to report".

What do LA hotels charge in fees?

One table, every fee the index tracks. Each row counts the hotels in the Los Angeles area whose own website states that fee, how many say it is free or that there is none, how many state an amount, and the median and range of those amounts.

California's SB 478 took effect on July 1, 2024 and makes it unlawful to advertise a price that leaves out mandatory fees other than government taxes.

The FTC's Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees took effect on May 12, 2025 and requires short-term lodging prices to be advertised with mandatory fees included.

Counts are of hotels whose own website states the fee. A median needs at least 5 stated amounts; "too few to report" marks a cell below that. Amounts are as the hotel states them, before tax. Of the 42 hotels that say how the pet fee is charged, 29 charge it once per stay and 13 per night.

How do hotel fees differ across LA?

The same counts for nine areas. An area with fewer than 5 hotels stating a fee is marked "too few to report" rather than estimated.

An area is reported only with at least 5 hotels stating the fee, and a median only with at least 5 stated amounts. Hotels in the city of Los Angeles are grouped under the nearest neighborhood within 2 miles; the LAX area is Westchester, El Segundo, Inglewood and Hawthorne.

Which hotels state the highest resort fees?

Per night and before tax, as the hotel states it. A fee can apply to some room types only; the source page has the detail.

Only values a person re-read on the hotel’s own page are named here.

What changed since the last edition?

This is the first edition, so there is no previous month to compare. From the next edition this section sets each figure beside the month before, and the CSV keeps every edition's rows under its edition column.

Cite this report

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How we got these numbers

What counts as a fee: a charge the hotel states on its own website for self-parking, valet parking, a resort, destination or amenity fee, a pet, smoking in a room, a security deposit or card hold, early check-in or late check-out. A hotel that states the charge is free, or that there is none, is counted as stating a policy. A hotel whose website says nothing is not counted either way.

Which hotels: every hotel, motel, inn and hostel published for the Los Angeles area (2,608 this edition). Only a hotel whose own website states a fee enters a figure; no booking site, review site or guest report is read. Each fact is read within the website's robots.txt and carries its source URL and the date it was checked in the CSV.

How medians are taken: one value per hotel, the latest the crawler read, with "free" and "none" counted as a policy but not as an amount. A median is shown only with at least 5 stated amounts and an area only with at least 5 hotels stating the fee; below that the cell says "too few to report". Amounts are per night as the hotel states them, except pet fees, which are per stay or per night as stated.

Editions: the index is published monthly, on the first business Tuesday, from the facts checked through the date shown. Each edition's rows are kept in the CSV under its edition column, so this URL accumulates the series.

Every number on this page is computed from facts that Journeyed read on hotels' own websites, within each site's robots.txt, between October 2, 2026 and October 13, 2026. Nothing comes from booking sites, review sites or guest reports.

The Los Angeles market on this site covers Los Angeles County and most of Orange County, from Malibu and Lancaster to Anaheim, Newport Beach and Laguna Beach, plus Avalon on Catalina Island. It has 2,608 hotels, motels, inns and hostels. 2,224 of them list their own website, and we have read at least one detail about the stay from 454 of those websites so far. A website our crawler opened but found no such detail on is not among the 454, so a share of "websites with a detail read" is higher than the share of all hotel websites would be.

A hotel is counted only when its website states the fact in plain text. Our crawler reads up to 12 pages per site and runs no JavaScript, so a fee that appears only inside a booking widget, an image or a PDF is not counted. A hotel that is not counted may still offer or charge the thing; it has not said so in a form we could read.

Shares are of the hotels that state the fact, never of all hotels, and each share shows its count. Hotels with good news, such as free parking or no resort fee, may be more likely to say so, which would make these shares look better than the whole market.

Values are read by software and can be wrong. Before publishing, a person re-read the highest and lowest values against the hotel's page. Hotels are named in a table of highest stated prices only when that exact value was re-read by hand. Every row in the CSV links to the page it was read from, so anyone can check it.

A median is shown only with at least 5 stated prices and an area only with at least 5 hotels stating the fact. The numbers are rebuilt with the site by published, deterministic code: the same fact rows always give the same numbers.

How facts are collected and scored in general is on the methodology page, and the full open dataset is on the data page.

Other sources

• California Department of Justice: SB 478, hidden fees, checked October 3, 2026
• Federal Trade Commission press release, checked October 3, 2026

More reports

• The LA Hotel Parking Report

  Of 216 hotels in the Los Angeles area that state a self-parking price on their own website, 154 say it is free. Where a price is charged, the median stated price is $30.

• Resort and Destination Fees at LA Hotels

  31 hotels in the Los Angeles area state on their own website whether they charge a resort, destination or amenity fee. 27 state a daily amount, from $3 to $125, and 4 say they charge none.

• Pet Policies Across LA Hotels

  Of 214 hotels in the Los Angeles area that state a pet policy on their own website, 90 allow pets, 100 do not, and 24 take service animals only. The median stated pet fee is $100.

• Hotels Near LA Stadiums and Arenas

  We counted the hotels within 1, 3 and 5 miles of 10 stadiums and arenas in the Los Angeles area, and what those hotels say about parking and breakfast on their own websites.

• What LA Hotel Websites Leave Out

  On the websites of 454 hotels in the Los Angeles area our crawler could read at least one detail of the stay. We checked each for 18 basic details: 52% state what parking costs, 47% state a pet policy and 7% say anything about a resort fee.

• Check-in and Check-out Times at LA Hotels

  Of 223 hotels in the Los Angeles area that state a check-in time on their own website, 54% say 3 PM, and 28% make guests wait until 4 PM or later.