Booking.com yet another company I’ll never trust with dark patterns in their UI that hides fees.
That doesn’t make it not suck. Not hiding fees doesn’t mean “we always show what’s legally required.”
As a customer I want to know how much things cost. It’s a pain to not know taxes when shopping rooms. Especially since I rarely know city taxes and some hotels have different taxes because they are “resort” or “convention” or whatever tax rules exist for a particular jurisdiction.
Overall I find Booking pretty neat, once you get past all the "449 people booked this room in the last 4 seconds" bs.
Having said that, Agoda has the lowest price most of the time, so I put with their bs even more willingly.
Europe
European Union regulations say that mandatory fees must be included in advertised prices, making hidden resort fees illegal.[118][119]