It seems this matter is not clear cut and like lots of other laws, very dependent on the state as well.
For example, the State of Michigan
427.302 Rental of room to minor.
Sec. 2. A hotel or bed and breakfast may refuse to rent or lease a hotel room or a bed and breakfast room to a minor other than an emancipated minor.
Outright states its okay to refuse rental to a minor
And there is also this site that shares
http://lawdigest.uslegal.com/travel/...iability/7315/
Right to Evict Persons Admitted as Guests
Hotels may generally evict a guest and keep the room rental payment, despite the eviction, for the following reasons:
- disorderly conduct
- nonpayment
- using the premises for an unlawful purpose or act
- bringing property onto the premises that may be dangerous to others
- failing to register as a guest
- using false pretenses to obtain accommodations
- being a minor unaccompanied by an adult registered guest
- violating federal, state, or local hotel laws or regulations
- violating a conspicuously posted hotel or motel rule
- failing to vacate a room at the agreed checkout time
Check-in an unaccompanied minor, keep the money and then exercising the right to evict? Wow.
Then with regards to California
http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2...PromNight.html
Under California's Civil Rights Act (Civil Code Sections 51, et seq.), an innkeeper cannot arbitrarily refuse accommodations to all unaccompanied minors--notwithstanding the facts that they can often disaffirm their contracts, or the act that minors' as a class, might be deemed to be unruly or likely to misbehave. This general rule is subject to two very important exceptions, however, they add.
This was what was quote above thread the reason why CA innkeepers cannot turn away guests who are minors. According to
http://www.ehow.com/list_7315187_cal...uirements.html
Hotels in California have a general obligation to rent rooms to anyone who asks and is able to pay. This open door approach comes to us from old England, where travelers turned away at inns risked meeting bandits on the roads. State law prohibits innkeepers from refusing to rent a room on the basis of an individual's age, but a number of exceptions involve individuals who are minors.
Back to California,
In 1999, the California Hotel & Motel Association responded to concerns raised by many of its members and wrote and introduced Senate Bill (SB) 1171, which was signed by Governor Davis and became effective January 1, 2000. Among other things, SB 1171 deals expressly with the prom night and graduation night situation, and states that "Where a minor unaccompanied by an adult seeks accommodations, the innkeeper may require a parent or guardian of the minor, or another responsible adult, to assume, in writing, full liability for any and all proper charges and other obligations incurred by the minor for accommodations, food and beverages, and other services provided by or through the innkeeper, as well as for any and all injuries or damage caused by the minor to any person or property."
Thus, each innkeeper should consider instituting a policy that all minors unaccompanied by an adult must present a written document, signed by a parent, guardian, or other responsible adult, agreeing to pay for all charges and damages as a condition to providing a room to the minor. Such a policy can be in force all of the time, or only at certain times of the year (e.g., during prom and graduation season), at the discretion of the innkeeper. The key is that an innkeeper who institutes such a policy must be sure to apply it to all unaccompanied minors, uniformly and without discrimination.
So if minors turned up without this document, it is then OK to refuse the minor as long as it was transparent and uniformly applied. The innkeeper can determine if this is every single day or only certain periods of time.
Regardless of whether an unaccompanied minor presents a written and signed guarantee to pay for the applicable charges, and any damages, an innkeeper is almost certainly justified in refusing accommodations to a minor--or to a parent or other adult on behalf of a minor--where the innkeeper reasonably suspects that the guestroom will be used for a party by a group of unaccompanied minors. This is a consequence of 1) the duty of the innkeeper to take reasonable steps to safeguard the peace and quiet of other guests, and (2) the right of the innkeeper to take precautions to safeguard his own property.
So if one turns up in a manner that makes the innkeeper reasonably suspects that the minors may disturb other guests from resting, the innkeeper can turn the minors away.