Originally Posted by
mdlee3
This sounds somewhat reasonable, but don't most hotels charge you for a night anyway if you don't cancel your reservation by a certain time? If so, then he'd end up paying for the room anyway.
It depends on what rate you signed up for. Some require 24 hour cancellation, some 3 day, and some don't allow any! However, given a rate dispute where you have a record of a reservation with the lower rate, and you made a good faith effort to resolve it before cancelling, I think most hotels would waive the cancellation fee.