{
 "url": "https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-resort-fees/",
 "title": "Resort and Destination Fees at LA Hotels",
 "headline": "The median stated resort fee at LA hotels is $35 a day",
 "summary": "32 hotels in the Los Angeles area state on their own website whether they charge a resort, destination or amenity fee. 28 state a daily amount, from $3 to $125, and 4 say they charge none.",
 "published": "2026-10-03",
 "dataCheckedOn": "2026-10-03",
 "cite": "Journeyed, \"Resort and Destination Fees at LA Hotels\", data checked October 3, 2026, https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-resort-fees/",
 "license": {
  "name": "CC BY 4.0",
  "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
 },
 "sample": {
  "hotels": 2612,
  "withWebsite": 2227,
  "sitesRead": 453,
  "stating": 32,
  "statingLabel": "hotels that state a resort fee policy",
  "factsCheckedFrom": "2026-10-02",
  "factsCheckedTo": "2026-10-03",
  "held": []
 },
 "stats": [
  {
   "value": "$35",
   "label": "median stated daily resort fee",
   "basis": "28 hotels stating an amount, from $3 to $125"
  },
  {
   "value": "32",
   "label": "hotels state their resort fee policy",
   "basis": "of 453 hotel websites with a detail read (7%)"
  },
  {
   "value": "$250",
   "label": "median stated smoking fee",
   "basis": "34 hotels, from $100 to $750"
  },
  {
   "value": "$100",
   "label": "median stated security deposit",
   "basis": "36 hotels, from $50 to $500"
  }
 ],
 "findings": [
  "32 hotels in the Los Angeles area state a resort, destination or amenity fee policy on their own website: 28 state a daily amount and 4 say they charge no such fee.",
  "The median stated fee is $35 a day, the middle half runs from $25 to $45 and the range is $3 to $125.",
  "34 hotels state a fee for smoking in a room. The median is $250 and the highest is $750.",
  "36 hotels state a security deposit or card hold. The median is $100.",
  "Of the 352 hotels that mention Wi-Fi, 350 (99%) say it is free."
 ],
 "tables": [
  {
   "question": "Which hotels state the highest resort fees?",
   "caption": "Highest stated resort and amenity fees",
   "columns": [
    "Hotel",
    "Area",
    "Stated daily fee",
    "Source"
   ],
   "rows": [
    [
     "The Resort at Pelican Hill",
     "Newport Coast",
     "$125",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "Surf & Sand Laguna Beach",
     "Laguna Beach",
     "$65",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "Santa Monica Proper Hotel",
     "Santa Monica",
     "$55",
     "Hotel page"
    ],
    [
     "The Surfrider Malibu",
     "Malibu",
     "$55",
     "Hotel page"
    ]
   ],
   "note": "Only values a person re-read on the hotel’s own page are named here."
  },
  {
   "question": "What do hotels say the resort fee covers?",
   "caption": "Items hotels say their resort fee includes",
   "columns": [
    "Item",
    "Hotels listing it"
   ],
   "rows": [
    [
     "Wi-Fi",
     "17 of 22 (77%)"
    ],
    [
     "Coffee",
     "14 of 22 (64%)"
    ],
    [
     "Fitness center",
     "10 of 22 (45%)"
    ],
    [
     "Bicycles",
     "7 of 22 (32%)"
    ],
    [
     "Yoga",
     "6 of 22 (27%)"
    ],
    [
     "Bottled water",
     "5 of 22 (23%)"
    ],
    [
     "Beach gear",
     "4 of 22 (18%)"
    ],
    [
     "Local calls",
     "3 of 22 (14%)"
    ],
    [
     "Credit",
     "1 of 22 (5%)"
    ],
    [
     "Printing",
     "1 of 22 (5%)"
    ]
   ]
  },
  {
   "question": "What other fees do LA hotels state?",
   "caption": "Other stated fees",
   "columns": [
    "Fee",
    "Hotels stating an amount",
    "Median",
    "Range"
   ],
   "rows": [
    [
     "Smoking in a room",
     "34",
     "$250",
     "$100 to $750"
    ],
    [
     "Security deposit or card hold",
     "36",
     "$100",
     "$50 to $500"
    ],
    [
     "Early check-in",
     "9",
     "$50",
     "$20 to $99"
    ],
    [
     "Late check-out",
     "10",
     "$47.50",
     "$15 to $99"
    ]
   ],
   "note": "A median needs at least 5 stated amounts. 3 hotels say there is no charge for early check-in."
  }
 ],
 "shares": [
  {
   "question": "How many LA hotels state a resort fee, and how much is it?",
   "caption": "What hotels that state a resort fee policy say",
   "rows": [
    {
     "label": "A daily fee, amount stated",
     "count": 28,
     "of": 32
    },
    {
     "label": "No resort fee",
     "count": 4,
     "of": 32
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "methodology": [
  "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 3, 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 2,612 hotels, motels, inns and hostels. 2,227 of them list their own website, and we have read at least one detail about the stay from 453 of those websites so far. A website our crawler opened but found no such detail on is not among the 453, 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."
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "text": "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.",
   "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/hiddenfees",
   "label": "California Department of Justice: SB 478, hidden fees",
   "checkedOn": "2026-10-03"
  },
  {
   "text": "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.",
   "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/05/ftc-rule-unfair-or-deceptive-fees-take-effect-may-12-2025",
   "label": "Federal Trade Commission press release",
   "checkedOn": "2026-10-03"
  }
 ],
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 "markdownUrl": "https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-resort-fees.md",
 "methodologyUrl": "https://journeyed.org/methodology/",
 "publisher": {
  "name": "Journeyed",
  "url": "https://journeyed.org/"
 }
}