How to make and cancel reservations in hotels, not to splurge

How to find a hotel right

No need to treat this lightly. Booking a room, you acknowledge that you agree to the terms offered, including to pay a fine in case of non-residence. So take your time and weigh all.

Compare prices

Best Buys are usually those that reservations can not be canceled without penalty. Therefore, your booking will be right in the bull's-eye. And for this it is necessary to consider as much as possible options.

Wool is not necessarily the entire Internet in search of lucrative offers. Compare Prices You can use many services aggregators.

Trivago

Gathers offers from the sites of hotels and booking services. There are several filters to refine your search.

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Hotellook

Gathers offers from over 80 booking systems. accommodation options you can pick up, noting on a map object, next to which you want to live.

RoomGuru

Seeking accommodation options in different reservation systems and offers you to select the most advantageous.

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Find out if the conditions are different depending on booking method

Look at the terms on which the hotel offers to stay on the site and through the service. It's not just about price. For example, in one case, you can offer more flexible cancellation policy, or provide early check in at no extra cost, and the other - no.

Among hotel reservation services around the world, there are two most popular.

Booking.com

The system, which can be used to find a suitable option and book it directly through the website. Additional benefits can be drawn if the catch special offer hotel or become a member of the bonus program Genius.

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Hotels.com

International service for hotel reservations. There are special offers and attractive stock.

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Carefully read the booking conditions

They may be different. Here are the most common options are:

• reservations can be free to cancel at any time;
• reservations can be canceled free of charge for a certain period, and if you miss, you will be charged a penalty;
• Cancellations at any time with you to write off the money for one night;
• reservations undoable, so you have to write off the money for all the estimated time of use, even if you do not arrive.

Read a page with information about the entire booking. You may find that the cancellation will be free only when a certain number of days, in other cases, will have to pay. These same events will be listed not in plain view.

Use separate card for booking

Most often, your reservation is necessary to inform the hotel your credit card details. So they protect themselves from unscrupulous people. However, sometimes there are covers: the money written off twice. Therefore it is better to send data in a special card, which you pay on the internet. Giving access to the payroll account to anybody is not necessary.

Please rate the likelihood that the trip goes wrong

Hotels often offer book at a bargain price, provided that it can not be canceled. What would you no matter what happens, the money will be written off. The situation is the same as with unrecoverable tickets a flight: select this option if you are sure that the visit will take place.

When you do not claim holiday date, children are constantly sick and companion wants to go, no, better to leave yourself room for maneuver and choose the option more expensive, but less radical terms.

Do not get fooled by provocation

It happens that you have booked the room through the service. But after a while you call the hotel directly and ask to cancel the reservation, because due to a technical failure have too many visitors and no free rooms.

Usually it is said that the hotel is found on the client directly to your room and do not want to pay any commission or service offered new customers a higher price, and they agreed.

In any case, lead negotiations with the booking service. Generally, you will offer similar options, perhaps with discounts or bonuses for the inconvenience. If you simply cancel your booking, you will remain with nothing.

How to cancel a booking

Follow the terms specified in the booking conditions

If you carefully read the conditions of the reservation, then you know how much time you are given on cancellation. Not to forget, you can put reminders - of course, not for an hour X, and with a margin.

Use the last chance

If you have missed a period, try to write to the hotel directly, or through a reservation. You can go forward and not to write off the money.

Remember that this is a right, not an obligation of the hotel.

Be honest and describe the situation. Sprinkle ashes on his head. Proposed to reduce the amount of the fine. By some kind of compromise you may have come.

Be sure to get a confirmation canceled

The corresponding letter of the hotel or reservation service is useful if you have to suddenly withdraw money for accommodation, if you did not cancel anything. It will also be useful if you have paid for the room in advance, we canceled the reservation, but the money has not been returned to you.

Acting within the law

Under Russian law,RF Government Decree of 09.10.2015 N 1085 "On approval of the Rules of hotel services in the Russian Federation"If the guest has booked the hotel, but canceled the reservation at the wrong time, or has not arrived, the hotel has the right to take with him a fee, but not more than a day.

If you decide to sue the Russian hotel, which took off with you if you cancel the reservation paid for all the time the alleged residence, you may rely on this provision.

In order not to pay the fine, on the Internet are advised to block the card, close the account and disappear from the radar of the hotel. Doubtful act adult law-abiding man who carefully read the reservation rules. And useless, if the hotel still want to get your money.

The consequences may be different. For example, a hotel may include you in the black list of its network or to achieve a ban on the booking website. Although most of the travelers got away with it.

Do not rush, if you have booked for a visa

A room booking for visa - common practice. Typically, after the return of the passport with the required mark of Consulate traveler cancels the reservation and going where they like. But can revoke a visa, if the hotel is advised that you have canceled your reservation. Therefore it is better not to risk it.