In Mamdani’s mind, “the price you see is the price you pay.”
Mamdani made the groundbreaking announcement at The Whitney Museum of American Art, adding the rule that applies everywhere outside city borders, to ban hotel resort fees, surprise deposits, and others that the mayor calls “junk fees.” Going into effect by mid-February, Newsday reports the rule extends to any place a New York City resident wants to stay at an advertised-in-NYC hotel, Airbnb rental, or other temporary lodging.
In Mamdani’s mind, “the price you see is the price you pay.” “I speak of the hidden fees that plague New Yorkers’ lives anytime they have the audacity to book a hotel room, not only when they’re in our city, but when they’re booking that room from here for wherever they’re traveling around the country,” he said.
Under the rule, once developed by the former Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, hotels and other temporary lodging spaces must include the entire cost of a night’s stay in the advertised fee. In addition, hotels can no longer add a surcharge under names like resort fee or destination fee, ridding guests of surprises by the actual cost that was never advertised.
Mamdani said the rule is a “warning” for “those who have long approached business as an opportunity to mistreat those who they serve,” simply seeking “transparency.”
Mayor Mamdani is at the Whitney announcing a new city rule banning “junk fees” on hotel stays. “To those who have long approached business as an opportunity to mistreat those who they serve: let today be a warning,” he says. pic.twitter.com/TqVk3CmFzM— Josie Stratman (@JosieStratman) January 21, 2026
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Source: Black Enterprise
