At the Embassy Suites where I'm staying, the card on the back of the door lists a room rate of $399 per day, $2793 per week, and $12369 per month for one person or two persons. Slightly more for 3 and 4 persons. In case you're wondering, $12469 is $399x31. I'm not paying that much per day for my stay.
California requires that these rates be posted.
California Civil Code Section 1863
(a) Every keeper of a hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse, shall post in a conspicuous place in the office or public room, and in every bedroom of said hotel, boardinghouse, inn, or lodginghouse, a printed copy of this section, and a statement of rate or range of rates by the day for lodging.
(b) No charge or sum shall be collected or received for any greater sum than is specified in subdivision (a). For any violation of this subdivision, the offender shall forfeit to the injured party one hundred dollars ($100) or three times the amount of the sum charged in excess of what he is entitled to, whichever is greater. There shall be no forfeiture under this subdivision unless notice be given of the overcharge to such keeper within 30 days after payment of such charges and such keeper shall fail or refuse to make proper adjustment of such overcharge.
Apparently this is the (anti-free market) anti-gouging law for hotel keepers.
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