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Old Mar 19, 2022 | 10:37 am
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Originally Posted by pstm91
Not only can it take the hotel some time to process the refund, but it can also take the credit card company time to process it on their end too. The standard verbiage I've seen is that it "the credit company will post it 5-14 days after we have processed it," or something along those lines. It can take a while...
I don't believe that's true in practice. I think that's more of a worst case scenario. My experience has been whenever a merchant processes a credit card, the cc company processes it within a day or two.
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