Originally Posted by
mbstone
1. $300 deposit required regardless of payment method.
2. $300 deposit required regardless of booking channel AFAIK.
3. I never dreamed that by posting this thread somebody would take the logical pole-vault of assuming that I am included in some database of hotel villains or am otherwise guilty of some sort of wrongdoing.
Ok, now I'm confused. They charge a $300 'deposit' on cc (ie, it's not just a regular 'hold'?) & then make
every single guest who stays in their hotel wait for 15 minutes for them to check a room before letting them check-out? Something doesn't make sense. I get it if it's cash but not if it's a c.c. They can just charge the c.c. for damages.
Originally Posted by
cbechdel
I don't think anyone here has said that or believed his to be the case.
WHat we are saying is many hotels have had bad things happen, thus they roll out the security deposit to all or to those customers who fit the "profile' of possible trouble such as a cash paying customer or a customer with no credit card on file.
+1. No one was dissing you, just saying that in a case of no c.c. & instead cash, that the hotel might have the policy due to prior problems that had nothing to do w/ you but which you get to reap the benefits of those problems.
Cheers.