Originally Posted by
craz
yep thats what Ive done,Ive called the Hotel and simply told them I was Bumped off my flight. They usually worked something out with me, also if the VDB was say $400 and the hotel was $149 it still might be worth ditching the Hotel. If its a 1 night stay in taht city then it might not work, other times I moved the res to the following night an dCXed where I was suppose to stay that night since the CX time didnt pass on that as of yet
Usually had no problem doing this as well. Only once was the hotel a stickler about it (called some 30 minutes after the cutoff due to a VDB, and they insisted that they wanted to charge me). It was DC of course (you know how people can be there with rules).
Anyhow, got to the hotel the next day at 8:30 a.m. on my rebooked flight, and they try to tell me it's too early to check in. I said absolutely not, I'm paying for last night, so either produce a room, or produce a refund.
They scrambled for a few minutes and were able to produce a room.