Originally Posted by
Xyzzy
Many of the visa services will sell you an invitation for $20 or so. That lets you specify whatever dates you wish for your trip. I've always padded it out to a full month and then stayed wherever I wished (making sure to register/notify as per the then-current regulation). Hotels w
n't have any problem with this.
Just to clarify, hotels won't have any problems with the traveler using an invitation issued by another service; they do not, as a rule, pad the dates beyond those on a reservation.