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Old Apr 14, 2019, 10:26 am
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ethernal
 
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Originally Posted by btonkid12345
If the app gives me the warning that they MAY charge a fee, it means they definitely will. When that happens, I either call the hotel directly to cancel, or if later at night and I don't want to risk an error with the overnight crew, I call and have the phone line do it themselves.

They have a waiver code to put in there to assure no fee will be charged. That's the best bet if it's an hour or less to cancel deadline expiring
That's interesting - I've had a slightly different experience... I've cancelled early in the day and received the same "You may be charged a cancellation fee" pop-up in the app and not been charged a cancellation fee.

The fact that they have to use a waiver fee to deal with their own ambiguity on cancellation times blows my mind.
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