<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by yashan:
I'm curious about this also. A coworker of mine had a room at a Courtyard for two straight weeks but over the weekend he visited some friends and stayed with them. Upon his return Sunday afternoon, he found his room occupied by another guest. Someone had collected all his stuff and moved it to a storage closet. He was gone only two nights (Friday and Saturday) and still had the room for another five nights after that. He said he even put the "Do Not Disturb" sign on his door to prevent housekeeping from coming in. He never got a straight answer and the hotel never got our business again.</font>
Your co-worker is wrong. The hotel did the right thing and he should have contacted the hotel to tell them they he was going to be gone for two nights. It happens ALL the time guests with extended reservations do not return leaving the hotel to foot the bill and are long gone by the time their stay concludes. They are watching for unused beds and two nights is pretty much the limit for a two week stay at just about any hotel unless they are comfortable with your credit. Why would he not just check out and in again instead of throwing away his or his company's money.