<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Glasair:
The thing that is annoying about this is that on the front end of your stay, with a gauranteed reservation, you have until 4pm to call and cancel without getting charged. Why is 6am not enough notice for a checkout?</font>
Clearly, the answer is to split your bookings in future into single nights so that any future ones can be cancelled at short notice. If enough people did this, I suspect they'd drop the stupid charges, or drown under their own paperwork.