<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by AllanJ:
I suppose the best way to avoid extra hotel charges in general is to do a manual check out at the desk and request a walk through of the room. </font>
I suupose that this would be ideal - but who really has the time to request a walk through of the room (and which hotel has the staff who would do this). But the manual checkout idea to get a zeroed out folio is a good one like many people have posted - I always do this also.