Originally Posted by
antonius66
and please don't give me the elitist "don't stay at nice hotels if you can't afford to have $1000 blocked on your card" BS. The holds are absurd in some places for sure.
Nothing elitist about it.... simply the reality.
They trust you to stay in an expensive room and charge generous amounts to your room/account, a credit card hold is the way to guarantee payment. A generous hold avoids lots of problems at checkout.
And unless the FD doesn't know what they are doing the hold is cancelled the moment you pay the final bill.