hotel fees

To heck with this "staycation" business, you say. You're going to have a real getaway, you say. Look at this great hotel rate, you say -- and then you say something unprintable when you go to check out and find that you've been socked with a whole host of fees you never knew about or budgeted...

Obviously, increasing taxation on leisure spending is a stupid idea when leisure spending is down. The goal is to stimulate more travel, not to discourage it by making it more expensive. But that's the way government works: The people who balance the books are often the ones controlling the...