General strikes, rent strikes and boycotts are far more effective ways to lock up wealth. The possible downside is that if you’re reliant on investments, those are gonna take a hit too. I’m ok with this, but my parents won’t be.

It still takes up space, that you either have to rent/buy extra as hotel or can't use for more sensible stuff. If anything, if parking is free, everybody is paying the fee even if you don't use parking.

Most hotels would have a good case to charge for parking if we had things like land value taxes.

Yeah, charging for hotel parking in NYC, DC, or a dense part of Seattle is an entirely different beast from charging for it in Montana or the outskirts of a national park. The question comes down to if it's reasonable for you to have gotten there without a car and if it's reasonable for you to get around where you're going without one. For places where not having a car with you is unreasonable a parking fee feels like a hidden fee for everyone, where for somewhere you probably flew into and can take public transit around it's charging for an extra amenity.

While I do agree that cars take up far too much space, charging a guest for parking is a bit of a dick move under most circumstances.

They always charge for parking, the difference is in whether they just charge the people that actually show up in a two ton tin can, or just charge everybody regardless of how they got there, in which case it's just worked into the price of the room.

Whether visible on the bill or not, there's no scenario where the price of the land your hotel sits on doesn't factor into the price of your stay.

Which to me also leaves zero moral space for retaliatory b.s. like keeping the water running or destorying furniture.

Charging for limited stuff makes sense, otherwise the hotel would need as many parking spots as it has beds

While I do agree that cars take up far too much space, charging a guest for parking is a bit of a dick move under most circumstances.

It's really not. Most of the time this is because the local jurisdiction taxes parking in some way, and as is always the case in the US, the local business isn't going to absorb those fees.

Sadly people seem to struggle with thinking in terms that aren't black and white. A position like yours seems to blow their mind.

the average hotel stay is not for vacation, it's for work. monday-friday morning is primarily workers, friday-sun morning are usually the vacationers/visitors/etc. resorts and stuff? all vacation all the time. but your local hilton? not so much

When parking is included in the price, people who visit without a car pay for a service they don't use.
Of course if literally no one arrives without a car, then it's easiest and most transparent to include it.

Reframing is helpful.

Because then the price to stay isn't falsely advertised.

face to face meetings are superior to every way.

No they are not. If they are for you, you are doing them wrong. They are huge time wasters, and energy wasters.

Face to Face with family? Fine. With work? A jerk off session to spend money on travel. So much wasted time.

The worst offender though? Hybrid. They suck the most of all.

what a bold statement

face to face meeting absolutely fucking suck for technical presentations where multiple people are sharing designs and looking at spec sheets etc.

Where can I get hotel parking for 10?

I am happy when its only 50. I am seeing 100 at a lot of places now.

One particular hotel I was in recently had no other option, even though they had a car garage that was all by itself, in other words no one else was going to use it.

$85 a day. Stayed a week. No discounts for a weeks stay.

More like extra $50.

"Whatever the rube will pay" is not a good business model. I wonder about the vacancy rate in hotels and motels across and throughout the land, not just when there is an "event" close by.

That assumes information symmetry.

But I can’t bring myself to be so pissed at someone that wants a family vacation and has to drive due to their country’s failure to implement public transit.

you could use that exact same argument to justify a lot of bad things and systemic failures

Most people in the world grow up in a country that is fraction of the size of America, and developed in the era of history before cars. If a city developed and grew in the Middle Ages, it is going to be a tightly organized place, so people can get to other parts of the city by walking or horse draw transportation.

But America had most of its development during the car era, and cities adopted a larger sprawl, even creating suburbs, from which people could drive.

Now that we're built up this way, with lots of suburbs, it's common for people to live 30-60 minutes, by car, to their workplace. Stores restaurants, schools, etc., are all too far to walk, or even bike, and the route may be dangerous due to traffic. Cars are essential to live a normal life.

There is an effort to upgrade public transportation, but things like trains are always going to be better within the cities. Traveling between cities is just too far, and even current trains aren't sufficient. It literally takes the same time to drive, and is probably going to be less expensive than a train ticket. If we had maglev bullet trains it would be faster, but the price would also be much higher.

We've already developed as a car society, and our geographic size makes trains and busses problematic anyway. We can try to add bullet trains, and a other efforts to relieve traffic, but we will probably always be a car culture in America.

I actually left a good review recently when I had to stay somewhere and only had the laptop. Their IT fellow was super helpful in helping me connect to the internet, despite my inexperience with the linux side of internet connection issues.

Hotels blame their bad reviews on the employees. Once worked at a hotel that blamed the front desk for the bad reviews the hotel got because of a burst water main.