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resortcharging··@pgallagher

I'd pay $20-40 more a night for an L2 charger — is anyone else actually weighing it that heavily?

We did a Texas to Massachusetts trip a couple months ago in the Model Y with the family and honestly I never based anything on hotel chargers. I just picked the hotel and checked PlugShare for fast chargers nearby. Only actively waited for a charger three times the whole way. A destination charger is a bonus but I wouldn't trust it as the plan. We did get stuck once at home in the winter when a couple of public chargers were down and snow was blocking an EVgo. Ended up paying $0.53/kWh at a dealer just to get home, so I'm wary of anything that's only one stall.
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irene_castle
@irene_castleOctober 13, 2026
I do filter for it when picking where to stay, and the last few places I booked had one that worked. Only one was free, the others were priced reasonably per session. The flat nightly fee thing is worth asking about though, I'd rather know that before I book than at checkout.
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paul_hendry7
@paul_hendry7October 14, 2026
For me the L2 is the first thing I check when booking a hotel, and I'd pay $20-40 more a night for one. Mostly I just don't want to hunt for a public charger the next morning. Is anyone else actually weighing it that heavily?
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jwhitaker_31
@jwhitaker_31October 17, 2026
Yes, it's the first thing I filter for. I'll mark a hotel down if the charging isn't free or there's only one or two stalls. For me a hotel that has plenty of chargers and doesn't bill for them beats a slightly nicer room. Free and plentiful is the combo I look for.
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stan_hurley
@stan_hurleyOctober 13, 2026
Same here, been using hotel L2s for about 8 years and every one has been free, never hit an idle fee. I just plug in when I get there and unplug before bed. Never really thought of it as a perk until I saw how many places charge.
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cajun_ray58
@cajun_ray58October 14, 2026
Chains seem easier on that front. On a Louisiana to Grand Canyon trip I stayed mostly at Hilton and IHG places around $100 a night, and they reliably had L2 and I never saw the chargers all taken. Independents and smaller resorts are the ones I'd call to confirm.
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zach_morley
@zach_morleyOctober 15, 2026
Same, it's the first thing I check when I search for hotels on road trips. If there's no overnight charging I usually just move on to the next place. For somewhere remote I'd still want to confirm by phone that it's working, but it does narrow the list fast.
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greyson_41
@greyson_41October 15, 2026
I'd be careful about leaning on it too hard though. I've had hotel L2s blocked by gas cars parked in the spot, and a few times every plug was full for a whole 24 hours, so the one I'd picked the place for was never actually free. Calling to confirm it's working helps, but it doesn't tell you whether anyone's parked there. For somewhere remote I'd still want a plan that gets me home without it.
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carrie_vance
@carrie_vanceOctober 15, 2026
Yeah, this happened to me too. Had a week at an Anaheim hotel with 8 Tesla destination chargers and two of the stalls had gas cars sitting in them the whole week. Staff said the chargers were third-party-owned, so it wasn't really their problem either.
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greta_lindholm
@greta_lindholmOctober 15, 2026
The flip side is a place with no charging at all. We stayed at a big cottage up north that had nothing, not even a decent outlet near the driveway, and I missed it a lot more than I expected. Now I ask about L2 before I book anywhere remote, even if it's just one slow plug.
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linda_shelby
@linda_shelbyOctober 16, 2026
We stayed at the Blackwater Falls lodge in West Virginia and there's no DC fast charging anywhere close. The Blink L2s there were really handy. Not fast, but that didn't matter when we were sleeping there anyway.
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ron_kaczmarek
@ron_kaczmarekOctober 17, 2026
Casinos work out the same way for me. I go up to Black Hawk, Colorado, and the two big casino/hotels both have a bunch of free L2s that are usually open during the day. I plug in, play for 3-4 hours, and the car's around 80% when I get back. Obviously not a plan for a long remote stay, but for a few hours it does the job.
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glenn_shuster
@glenn_shusterOctober 15, 2026
I'm in the same camp, though mine is mostly about cost. I pay around $60 a month on electricity after a discount, vs the roughly $260 I'd figured on gas, so I'd rather charge at the place I'm sleeping than pay for a public fast charger the next day. A hotel with an L2 is basically the cheap part of the trip for me.
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ckessler_12
@ckessler_12October 16, 2026
The plugged-in-all-night thing is why I'm fine with idle fees at regular public chargers but not at a hotel. You're asleep, so leaving it on the plug is the whole point. If a place ever started enforcing something, I'd turn my charge rate down so it finishes right around morning rather than get asked to move the car at 3am.
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