How do you manage this for prepaid hotel rooms? It appears that almost without exception the 19% tax (or VAT or whatever it is) is added when making reservations online and I expect it to be hard to get it back once you have paid, in particular if the hotel bookings are made with an OTA like Expedia, Booking.xxx etc. The only solution is to reserve a room to be paid to the hotel upon arrival and then fight it out at check-in?