Originally Posted by FearFree

This seems a little redundant to me. I can understand, since it was booked with a 3rd party bid site, the hotel would not have access to your credit card information and want some kind of a hold for incidentals, damages, etc. but why then make you wait for a room inspection.

I mean, if they were going to inspect it before you left, why put the hold on your card, as you would have needed to pay damages before leaving in that case, and since the hold was already there "just in case" why bother keeping you around?

Certainly not something that I've run into, sorry about your bad experience.