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Hotels & Lodging in Tuscaloosa, AL (2026)

1 verified hotels & lodging rules for Tuscaloosa, Alabama, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.

Verified from official government sources

Transient Occupancy Tax

Hotels, motels, and other transient lodging in Tuscaloosa pay an 11 percent lodging tax on room charges under Sec. 7-65(a), collected monthly by the revenue director. The tax reaches any place regularly renting rooms to transients but exempts stays of 180 continuous days or longer and trailer space rentals.

Tuscaloosa Hotel Occupancy Tax Rate

Some Restrictions

Tuscaloosa City Code Sec. 7-65(a)

Sec. 7-65. - Transient rentals; trailer space—License required; rates. (a)Hotels, motels and other transient lodging. Every person engaging in the business, in the city or in its police jurisdiction, of renting or furnishing any room, lodging or accommodation to transients in any hotel, motel, inn, tourist camp, tourist cabin or any other place in which rooms, lodgings or accommodations are reg...