On Jan 16, 4:20*pm, Alasdair 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.

Like some people do with web sites that don't even work in the way the
customer specified?

Are there any ways to avoid this happening by using a pre-paid card
where the cost of the hotel room is all that is available?

You could try that but, unless the hotel can "block" additional credit
on the card, they're likely to do as any sensible person should do
with you and tell you to **** off.

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