I don't mind paying a reasonable fee if the site is ok, after all its' a recharge to the customer. What really grips me is when a hotel wants £250 to land next to their car park, which is free to guests. A standard response now is "Ok we'll pay the £250, can you show us copies of your license, details of your fire cover and GPU's, your frequency and how many gorgeous dollies you have to carry the passengers' bags."
One regular customer, the chairman of a major multi-national stood at reception and asked them to justify £250 when he had eight rooms booked for a week and could have parked his car in the car park for free. The landing fee was immediately waived.
The Von Essen hotels make no charge if you are using the hotel facilities, parhaps they should spread their methods round the rest of the hotel industry.
One Wiltshire hotel demands £100 to land on a patch of mud leaving the passengers with a 350 yard walk to the building across a badly poached field to the hotel. At the other end of the scale Ickworth House has a magnificent pad and the pilot is treated to coffee and sarnies.
VH