{"id":14174,"date":"2021-10-25T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=14174"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:08:40","slug":"hotels-making-false-advertising-claims-take-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/hotels-making-false-advertising-claims-take-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels Making False Advertising Claims Take A Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&lt;span style=&#8221;font-weight: 400;&#8221;&gt;Prominent hotel chains are getting the ire of&lt;\/span&gt; business travellers for falsely advertising business-class services that simply do not materialize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advertisements with a hot breakfast or evening happy hour turn out to be false and simply lies. Many think that this is just Covid-inspired conservatism, while others think it is just naked cost-cutting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another Hyatt hotel was in the news recently. Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor aimed to justify its $25 destination fee. Many business travellers would certainly appreciate the waived fee for incoming\/outgoing taxes that goes into that mandatory $25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These destination fees &#8211; or resort fees &#8211; cover technical gadgets such as free Wi-Fi and local landline calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hotel in question, the Hyatt-run Andaz Hotel in Napa, has a mandatory destination fee of $30 plus taxes per night, which covers many nice perks such as &#8220;on-site shoe shine,&#8221; &#8220;bike rental from Velo to ride through the hills of wine country (10% off)&#8221;, and, &#8220;local Health Club Pass &amp; Fitness Classes.&#8221; but the local health club pass and fitness classes are far from the actual accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/a-tech-exec-searched-for-this-hyatt-hotels-fitness-center-soon-he-was-fit-to-be-tied\/\">original story<\/a> from ZDnet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent hotel chains are getting the ire of business travellers for falsely advertising business-class services that simply do not materialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14236,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions\/14236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}