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Are you still paying for too many hotel extras?

One reader wants to know after a Hilton stay comes to a shocking end

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Christopher Elliott
Jul 12, 2024
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This was supposed to be the summer that travel fees disappeared, right? But they haven’t for Trish McCarrin.

She contacted me this week after spending one night at a Hilton property in South Carolina and getting shocked by $44 in extras.

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