Originally Posted by
WestCoastPDX
I don’t get it.
You break a leg and need surgery - you pay.
Could be someone else’s fault... but you gotta pay for treatment.
You might not ‘want to’ but, you pay.
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You may not want to pay for two weeks extra of hotel nights, but, what does that matter?
You stayed 2 weeks, the hotel is due compensation.
Why would the person who stayed in the room not pay?
Some hotels might try to charge rack rate in such circumstances. That would be unfair.
ADDED: BTW, during the later stages of Katrina, some hotels were bringing in staff from other locations (sister properties) and putting them up on certain floors of the hotel in order to have qualified staff after many of their former employees had left town. For example, the Windsor Court "imported"/"borrowed" employees from other Orient Express hotels in the USA; I don't know what their financial arrangements were.