On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:02:51 +0000, Mark Goodge
wrote:

Most hotels, these days, will not allow you to book a room with cash.
They insist on card payments.

From the guest's point of view, the down side of this is that charges
could be added to the card without the cardholder's knowledge or
consent and he only finds out about them when he gets the bill.

That's precisely why they do it.

I have a gut feeling that it is also to do with making it more
difficult to stay in a hotel anonymously.

--
Cynic