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Check into a hotel these days and you may be told that your bill will include an "energy surcharge" that nobody mentioned when you booked the room.
Throughout the country, hotels are imposing room surcharges of $1.50 to $5 per day to help compensate for rising energy costs. Most hotels don't include the surcharges in their room rates, saying they'll be dropped as soon as energy prices fall. That means the room rate you're quoted probably doesn't include the surcharge. Hotels sometimes spring the news on guests at check-in. Must you pay it?
The answer is no if you've been given no ...