LOS ANGELES - s4story -- The median stated resort fee at Los Angeles-area hotels is $35 a day, according to Resort and Destination Fees at LA Hotels, a report released today by Journeyed, an independent guide to the details of every hotel in the Los Angeles area.

Journeyed read the official websites of hotels across the Los Angeles market and recorded what each one states about the stay, with the source page and the date it was checked. Of 453 websites where at least one detail was read, 32 state a resort, destination or amenity fee policy: 28 state a daily amount and 4 say they charge none.

Key findings:
- The median stated resort fee is $35 a day (28 hotels). The middle half runs $25 to $45 and the range is $3 to $125.

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- Only 7% of those 453 websites state a resort fee policy.
- Of the 22 hotels that list what their fee includes, 17 (77%) name Wi-Fi, 14 (64%) name coffee and 10 (45%) name a fitness center.
- 36 hotels state a security deposit. The median is $100, with a range of $50 to $500.

Every figure counts only what a hotel states on its own website, in plain text, on a page that was read and dated. Hotels that say nothing are not counted as charging a fee or as charging none. The full method, the hotel-by-hotel list with source links, and a CSV download are at https://journeyed.org/reports/la-hotel-resort-fees/

The data is free to quote with credit to Journeyed and a link to the report.

About Journeyed
Journeyed (https://journeyed.org) is an independent guide to about 2,610 hotels in the Los Angeles area, built only from facts each hotel states about itself, with the source and the date it was checked. It does not publish reviews.