Minibar charge

[judecorp]

Also, I got my credit card bill yesterday and found a mysterious $17.08 charge from Hilton Hotels on my statement, assumedly from our NYC stay. We shouldn't have had extra charges because we prepaid on Priceline.

I called this morning and the woman said it was a minibar charge. This is exactly what I expected them to say. Here was our conversation:

Me: I noticed a $17.08 charge on my bill. Do you know what that's from?
Her: I see it's a minibar charge.
Me: We didn't use the minibar.
Her: They must be missing items. Okay, I'll take the charge off your card.

Doesn't that seem a LITTLE fishy to you? I mean, if they REALLY thought I used $17 worth of stuff from the minibar, would they have agreed to reverse the charge so immediately? I mean, I was prepared to go into the whole story (the truth), that we had asked to NOT have a minibar key but they gave us one anyway, and then we wanted to bring it downstairs and hand it to a real person at checkout but they said to leave it in the room, etc. But I didn't have to. Because she just said, "Okay."

I wonder if this is a common problem - either them trying to get extra money out of people, or room cleaners sampling from the minibar. I'm just glad it will come off my card.

Comments

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

It was my first job after High School and my first actual "Real Job" (this was back in the 1989-1990 time). It was fun because I got to work with almost all women. The actual job wasn't too bad either but after a while the monotony really got to me. Fortunatly I was able to get my first job in the computer biz before I went completely insane. But I really have some good stories about some of the most amazingly trashed hotel rooms ever! Plus its funny to stay at hotels now and see the Toilet Paper in that little Arrow Shape and think I USED TO HAVE TO DO THAT!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have had my share of doozy jobs, too. But now I still have a doozy job and I'm not a big fancy computer dude like you! :)

My stepsister cleaned rooms for a while and it was a skank hotel and she had all sorts of gross stories. I hope that didn't happen to you!!