Another hate list

[codash1099]

Plenty of these lists around, but most of this one matches my dislikes

Kicking kids and paying for wi-fi: 10 things I hate about travel

 

[Hvr]

The hotel holding funds annoys the cough out of me. Especially when I've maintained HH Diamond for the last couple of years.

When I travel overseas I'm usually spending 15-20 nights in the same brand hotel (i.e. Hilton). Surely Hilton should ensure that I only have one amount held for a trip rather than one for each hotel?

 

[boomy]

Nice list. Luggage desperados are indeed very annoying and they are common in Asia.

 

[markis10]

The hotel holding funds annoys the cough out of me. Especially when I've maintained HH Diamond for the last couple of years.

When I travel overseas I'm usually spending 15-20 nights in the same brand hotel (i.e. Hilton). Surely Hilton should ensure that I only have one amount held for a trip rather than one for each hotel?

Agree, and love the inconsistency between hotels in terms of the amounts they hold. One of the redeeming features of IHG is their elite express checkin involves a $1 preauth for most hotels.

 

[RooFlyer]

The hotel holding funds annoys the cough out of me. Especially when I've maintained HH Diamond for the last couple of years.

When I travel overseas I'm usually spending 15-20 nights in the same brand hotel (i.e. Hilton). Surely Hilton should ensure that I only have one amount held for a trip rather than one for each hotel?

Agree with all the list. The hotel funding trick gets even better when, like a good place I stayed at in Cancun, they topped up their 'holding' each and every time I charged something in the hotel -- coffee, drinks, meals. SO by the end, I had 'pre-authed' the lot.

At the end I specifically asked that they take the final charge out of the 'held' funds. Sure Sir! But no; they charged the card again and left the pre-auth on there, to dribble off in a week.

Doubleplus ungood.

 

[burrco]

More and more I've encountered Hotels that put a hold on my card for the room rate (+incidentals) on prepaid rates - very frustrating. Also a good test of how proactive a hotel is, fewer and fewer seem to go to the trouble of reversing the hold on check out, most as in Rooflyer words just let the charge dribble off.

 

[JohnK]

LOL. Reclining seat vigilantes!

Are we due for that debate again?