8 Things the Hospitality Industry Is Hiding From You

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1. You can lose your room to someone with status

You reserved and paid for your hotel room months ago. However, if you’re unfortunate, you can show up and find yourself without a room. Hotels, like airlines, occasionally overbook in order to avoid losing income from unsold rooms.

And if you’re at the bottom of the totem pole, you can find yourself “walked” to another property. You won’t have to pay for the new room, but it will be inconvenient.

When there isn’t enough room in the inn, who gets walked? It depends, but if another visitor has hotel status and you don’t, chances are you’ll be the one lugging your bag across town. After all, hotels don’t want to irritate their most devoted customers.

A single-night stay or a booking through a third-party site like Expedia may further increase your chances of ending up somewhere else.

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4 thoughts on “8 Things the Hospitality Industry Is Hiding From You”

  1. what a crazy crazy world we live in to too twp many people not liking the general PUBLIC who sorta sorta help pay their wages….MOST HOTELS do reallllllllyyyyyyy SUCK.

  2. I have experienced the filth of a hotel room from the linen the mattress to the coffee pot and I don’t mind telling you it was The Ahoskie Inn in Ahoskie N.C. so be aware. This is not the first time I have told this story because it was that unbelievable. We were there for a wedding under the name White.

  3. Everything should be washed included pillows. You want CLEAN EVERYTHING. NOT SOME ONES LEFTOVERS. GERMS. MY THOUGHTS

  4. Im off to a hopefully stress free 48 hours at greensprings resort up in Williamsburg Va I’m from the beach area and have four boys and my Aussie shepherd and hubby so that’s a lot like taking my stress with me yet I have high hopes that this not to horrible pick will be not better than wolf lodge just at least a weekend getaway yet not away

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