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Are you ready for a summer of surcharges?

Junk fees haven't disappeared. In fact, there are more of them than ever.

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Christopher Elliott
May 26, 2024
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Good luck avoiding junk fees when you travel this summer. 

There are transaction fees, convenience fees, resort fees — and a beef-cost surcharge.

That’s what Alan Levine says he found on his bill when he stopped at a steakhouse in Moab, Utah, recently.

“My server claimed the beef-cost surcharge was standard,” says Levine, a retired editor from New York. “B…

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