Originally Posted by AutoSlash

It depends. Regardless of whether you are logged into your account, there are some pay later reservations that require a credit card guarantee (not common), while most others do not. If you make a reservation that does not explicitly say it requires a credit card guarantee, then there is no penalty if you no show.

To reiterate, we are talking about pay later reservations--not prepaid reservations, which typically entice you with a lower rate but do have cancellation penalties.

If you are seeing a pay-later reservation that says it had a $130 cancellation penalty, then please post a screenshot as we'd be curious to see it.