Timeline for How do I insist that American hotels accept my employer's credit card for payment, instead of asking for personal credit card upon check-in?
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| Dec 14, 2017 at 14:31 | comment | added | Fattie | "They want it so they can be covered for damages and theft.", yes precisely, just as @Dunk says. As it feels like I have typed 100 times, realistically "you simply can't stay in a hotel room or rent a car without a card". Obviously, of course, I mean "these days" and "realistically" (I.E., anecdotes about Mumbai, what happened to my Dad forty years ago, hourly hotels on the strip etc are just not that interesting.) Note that the Op is indeed (of course, obviously) stating that the OP can not use a hotel without a card! And the answer is "yes that's correct, you can not". | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 18:31 | comment | added | Dunk | They don't want the credit card for drinks from the mini-bar. That's a convenience. They want it so they can be covered for damages and theft. Fattie is 'mostly' correct. You can still find hotels/motels in the US that will allow check-in without a credit card but those are rare and generally not recognizable brands. Of those rare places, most will require a cash deposit in lieu of credit card. I imagine the remaining ones are probably not places you'd want to stay. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 17:16 | comment | added | Willeke♦ | It is not the case that the OP does not have a credit card, it is that the hotel company has to charge the card they have been given beforehand, as they agreed to. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 13:52 | comment | added | Heinzi | @Fattie: It was possible a few years ago (from personal experience) - and yes, they did initially act as if it were necessary (before admitting that it wasn't, when I told them that I don't have one). Did anything change there? If you can link to a reputable source, I will remove my answer immediately. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:50 | comment | added | Fattie | hey @gerrit, to keep the discussion short, it's impossible in the US. (Note that the OP has already pointed out that .. it's impossible.) | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:47 | comment | added | Heinzi | @Fattie: In that case, however, they do have the credit card data from the employer. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:46 | comment | added | gerrit | @Fattie I've done exactly that (check in without a credit card) weeks ago in central Brussels. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:35 | comment | added | Fattie | This all might have been true the previous century. newsflash, you cannot check in to a hotel, or rent a car, without a credit card. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:28 | history | edited | Heinzi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 12:03 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @Nelson Then the OP should call their employer and tell them there's a problem. I'm pretty sure the employer will do a much better job preparing the trip next time. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 11:54 | comment | added | Rui F Ribeiro | I used that line successfully many times 15-20 years ago, but I had everything pre-paid by the employer, and they were just asking it for the deposit. If they insisted too much in the deposited (it was not frequent), I paid cash. I am not keen on giving my CC to random people. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 10:34 | comment | added | Nelson | The response will be "Sorry, you don't get a room." | |
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 9:41 | history | answered | Heinzi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |