This hotel made us pay a $100.00 deposit on the room. The guy, Christopher, said we had to pay this since we booked through a 3rd party agency. We were told that we could put this on our credit or debit card but it would not be refunded for 2-3 days. And only refunded if we asked for it at check out. If we gave them a $100.00 bill, we could get our $100.00 bill back in the morning, if we asked. We asked for a receipt of the $100.00 in cash we just gave to tho guy. He said, “no”, with a smirk. He was quite smug while basically bullying us into this so called deposit. He took our cash and put a sticky note on it with our room number.
In the morning we went to the service desk and asked for our cash back, which the lady politely gave back. She opened a drawer, looked through some stuff, and pulled out our $100.00 bill with the post it note of our room number.
My problem with this so called deposit is that it is not really a security deposit because when you leave in the morning, they don’t know if you tore the heck out of the room or not! This is cash money they hope you forget to ask for back. Which is exactly what happened to some friends of ours who also stayed there the same night we did. In a rush to leave that morning, they forgot to ask for their “deposit” in cash back. I guarantee you, that’s what they bank on. And for the people that put this so called deposit on a card, you don’t get it refunded unless you ask, it is not automatically refunded. What a scam!