Hotel didn’t charge after stay

[Anonymous]

I stayed a few nights in a hotel abroad. I booked with booking but payment was to be handled at the property, and I gave them my card at check in and check out.

At check out they said the hotel was paid, gave me a receipt and I left. The receipt was about 25% more in their local currency than the shown price with booking confirmation (including all fees etc).

Now I have been home for 4 days, the charge disappeared and there is no secondary or pending charge. I wonder if it will come through at some point. If it is not the booking.com amount I will contest it with the hotel, but at this point I am wondering if they forgot to charge me, or if I can expect it to come through.

Looking through comments on Reddit, there are stories of people who never got charged for their stay! Has this ever happened to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stayed a few nights in a hotel abroad. I booked with booking but payment was to be handled at the property, and I gave them my card at check in and check out.

At check out they said the hotel was paid, gave me a receipt and I left. The receipt was about 25% more in their local currency than the shown price with booking confirmation (including all fees etc).

Now I have been home for 4 days, the charge disappeared and there is no secondary or pending charge. I wonder if it will come through at some point. If it is not the booking.com amount I will contest it with the hotel, but at this point I am wondering if they forgot to charge me, or if I can expect it to come through.

Looking through comments on Reddit, there are stories of people who never got charged for their stay! Has this ever happened to you?

Give it a few days. If not charged, consider it a gift! I would not call offering payment.

[Anonymous]

I bet it’s a game they play with Americans: charge a higher amount down the road and hope the person doesn’t contest it.

It’s basically what hospitals do here.

[Anonymous]

This happened to me in Panama. I thought it was a gift from the universe but then the charge went through a few WEEKS later 😅

[Anonymous]

PP and yes it was also from booking.com (Panama charge)^^^^ must be some work around to not have to pay the booking.com fees I am guessing. It was the original amount tho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I stayed a few nights in a hotel abroad. I booked with booking but payment was to be handled at the property, and I gave them my card at check in and check out.

At check out they said the hotel was paid, gave me a receipt and I left. The receipt was about 25% more in their local currency than the shown price with booking confirmation (including all fees etc).

Now I have been home for 4 days, the charge disappeared and there is no secondary or pending charge. I wonder if it will come through at some point. If it is not the booking.com amount I will contest it with the hotel, but at this point I am wondering if they forgot to charge me, or if I can expect it to come through.

Looking through comments on Reddit, there are stories of people who never got charged for their stay! Has this ever happened to you?

Give it a few days. If not charged, consider it a gift! I would not call offering payment.

Why - are you a dishonest person?

[Anonymous]

op here. I am not planning to contact them and request to pay. I’ll update if anything changes

[Anonymous]

This happened to me in Hawaii of all places and the charge came through MONTHS later.

[Anonymous]

This happened with our wedding, believe it or not. We had paid a 25% deposit and they were supposed to charge the remainder within 3 biz days after wedding to have time to do a final inventory/accounting of consumables and man hours. The wedding venue did everything in house - food, booze, staffing, wedding decor, tables, tableware, venue rental, staffing, in house coordinator, etc

We had not been charged a week after our wedding, so emailed the in house coordinator. She said she would get to it the next week.

Well then months go by. Eventually we get a frantic phone call from the venue at end of year when they were trying to close the books by the accountant and realized we were never billed. Apparently the person who was our coordinator left her job a couple weeks after our wedding and just left it unresolved.

They knocked off $1000 for their mistake if we could pay within 24 hours!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me in Hawaii of all places and the charge came through MONTHS later.

I’m sure same will most likely happen to OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I stayed a few nights in a hotel abroad. I booked with booking but payment was to be handled at the property, and I gave them my card at check in and check out.

At check out they said the hotel was paid, gave me a receipt and I left. The receipt was about 25% more in their local currency than the shown price with booking confirmation (including all fees etc).

Now I have been home for 4 days, the charge disappeared and there is no secondary or pending charge. I wonder if it will come through at some point. If it is not the booking.com amount I will contest it with the hotel, but at this point I am wondering if they forgot to charge me, or if I can expect it to come through.

Looking through comments on Reddit, there are stories of people who never got charged for their stay! Has this ever happened to you?

Give it a few days. If not charged, consider it a gift! I would not call offering payment.

Why - are you a dishonest person?

Weird take. She offered her card to them and they took it. She paid. If they cancel payment days later on their end, is she supposed to chase after them? like if you write a check to someone and they don't cash it, do you call them daily and be like, TAKE MY MONEY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me in Hawaii of all places and the charge came through MONTHS later.

I’m sure same will most likely happen to OP.

Close the credit card, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me in Hawaii of all places and the charge came through MONTHS later.

I’m sure same will most likely happen to OP.

Close the credit card, OP.

This is interesting- OP here. It’s my chase sapphire preferrred and I’ve been thinking of downgrading it for some time to get a new chase signup bonus.

If I downgrade the card, would it get a new number? I assume so? I’ve never done it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me in Hawaii of all places and the charge came through MONTHS later.

I’m sure same will most likely happen to OP.

Close the credit card, OP.

This is interesting- OP here. It’s my chase sapphire preferrred and I’ve been thinking of downgrading it for some time to get a new chase signup bonus.

If I downgrade the card, would it get a new number? I assume so? I’ve never done it.

Why are you trying so hard to find a way to get out of paying for accommodations you used?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me in Hawaii of all places and the charge came through MONTHS later.

I’m sure same will most likely happen to OP.

Close the credit card, OP.

Sure, if you want them to turn a collection agency loose on you.