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Yeah, hotel and rental car taxes are cash cows for the locals who vote for them to abuse visitors. Nothing the visitor can do about them except decide how long they want to stay for the abuse and pay the highest sales tax rates in the country. I doubt that the hotels are passing along tax savings acquired by hiding some room costs in the fees tho. From the small variances in the fees, it seems the booking agencies are making money off of those too.
I don't think Garrett was particularly good at any of his endeavors - sheriff of either of his counties, hotel & saloon owner, rancher, or custom agent. Some Texas hill country merchants like to support the claim that Garrett & the Kid were drinking buds, the sheriff made him an offer to get out of New Mexico and substitute another body - and he did have the death certificate rewritten more to his liking. I'm more in support of his ambush killing and that Fort Sumner has the Kid's body.
I'd read that Garrett's murder site had been marked by his son, but kept secret from the public - but now that Las Cruces wants to annex the land there, they are thinking about building a bigger monument. Neither would interest me much, but I often stop to read the spins posted on the signs. I stopped at the sign claiming to be near where John Tunstall was ambushed, the first murder of the Lincoln county war on the way back from Alamogordo a couple of months ago. I got to visit the gypsum White Sands park, take the monthly tour across military land down to the alkali lake, see some old ranch ruins and gain a better understanding of how that rare dune field occurs where it is - saw it happening while I was on the lake bed. Also got a better understanding of the disputed politics and land grabs of the time and area which had far reaching effects. There are several versions to every story tho.After you pay the Resort Fee, go see this before they build a Wallmart over it:
I don't think Garrett was particularly good at any of his endeavors - sheriff of either of his counties, hotel & saloon owner, rancher, or custom agent. Some Texas hill country merchants like to support the claim that Garrett & the Kid were drinking buds, the sheriff made him an offer to get out of New Mexico and substitute another body - and he did have the death certificate rewritten more to his liking. I'm more in support of his ambush killing and that Fort Sumner has the Kid's body.
It's not much: $10 room savings + $4 resort fees x 2 rooms = $28 or so I think, but since I stumbled across it doing research - I may go back for it. For now I am waiting for a reply from the daughter as I don't plan anything for them until they approve - and some decisions we put on her Master Card just to be clear.That'a a lot of work Don for a difference of $19.00. I think you had at least $25 worth of aggravation for the process. Plus you blew up Travelocity.com in the process.
Ha! I am visiting and staying in the Lincoln Historic District and visiting the nearby Fort that fueled the war, changed hands in the Civil War, served as our first TB hospital, and as a WWII enemy alien camp - all of which is a long way from anything. I'll be carrying a lot of my own needs and my PLB.That sounds like that will be a blast! Pretty cool. Have fun, don't drink too much rot gut
Often true, often not - it varies. The hotels like customers who don't check.Booking direct can result in getting a better room/more perks. You are higher up on the food chain.