Zemi Beach Taxes is part of the Birthday Bash Trip Report.
What is your favorite part of trip planning? Mine is putting together my Excel spreadsheet showing how much I saved versus how much someone who purchases Rimowa Luggage would spend. I have a dedicated page on my blog for these works of art (see Bus-Ted: TPOL Points & Cash Summary). As I was filling in the cells for this trip, I went to Hilton.com to see the retail price for a stay at Zemi Beach Anguilla. The cost of the stay would have been $4,076.99 for three nights. While that is shocking, what was more offensive were the taxes.
It’s an additional $866.76 in taxes, almost as much as one night. Money must not mean anything for those fancy luggage folk.
A 27% tax on hotel rates isn’t particularly unusual. I just checked my next trip, and both my hotels in Denmark charge 25%.
Yeah that’s not the point. The point is to use points.