{"id":207,"date":"2003-08-19T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:03:30","slug":"207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/19\/207\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Busybody State Law Thwarted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty Wisconsin Legislature (and its governor), Took Firm Action against hoteliers who would gig their customers.  Wisconsin State Statute <a href=\"http:\/\/folio.legis.state.wi.us\/cgi-bin\/om_isapi.dll?clientID=7820277&#038;advquery=hotel%20rate%20posting&#038;infobase=stats.nfo&#038;j1=&#038;jump=&#038;record={1ED2B}&#038;softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg\" target=\"new\">254.83<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every hotelkeeper shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in each sleeping room in his or her hotel, in type not smaller than 12-point, the rates per day for each occupant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amid some other conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, hoteliers are happy to oblige by posting rates <i>higher<\/i> than their actual prices on the doors of the rooms into which you have already checked in.  For example, the room at the Milwaukee Hyatt Regency, where I stayed this weekend, cost me $139.00 a night.  The rate posted on the door:  <b>$300.00<\/b> a night.  I&#8217;ve stayed in a number of hotels and motels in Milwaukee, and the practice is the same.  Inflate the rate for the door, and give anyone who actually books the room a great discount.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you factor in the <i>&#8220;Welcome to our friendly town\/state <b>(sucker)<\/b><\/i> tax rate of 15% on the room, you&#8217;re not going to pay the posted rate in Wisconsin, ever.  But their state legislators cracked down on someone, sometime, and made a new law that&#8217;s easily dodged by everyone in the industry.  But taxpayers pay for its enforcement, assuming its enforced, and hotel guests pay for its avoidance.  Good work, legislators!<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I would never pay over $300 for a room in Wisconsin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sybaris.com\/frameset.html\" target=\"new\">unless<\/a> it included a private indoor swimming pool with waterfall, a sauna, a bidet, and a complimentary bottle of California Sparkling White Wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty Wisconsin Legislature (and its governor), Took Firm Action against hoteliers who would gig their customers. Wisconsin State Statute 254.83 states: Every hotelkeeper shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in each sleeping room in his or her hotel, in type not smaller than 12-point, the rates per day for each occupant. Amid some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21552,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/21552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}