| Scoring that discounted hotel room for the next trip for | | | | ensure proper billing. |
| the weekend getaway that you have been waiting for | | | | Using the telephone can quickly boost your bill to the |
| ages to take was exciting news for your wallet. | | | | sky level. Local phone calls are not always free. Check |
| Unfortunately, when you checked out of the hotel, the | | | | with the hotel about their phone policies prior to using |
| bill reflected that the discount did not even make a | | | | the phone. Quite often, the hotels will post the cost of |
| difference. Quite the opposite, the bill was enormously | | | | phone charges right on the phone in the room for |
| ridiculous and you are now irate. | | | | liability. In this day and age, though, most people carry |
| Extra fees are quite often unavoidable, for instance | | | | their own cell phones, so utilize your cell phone for as |
| taxes, for the vacationer. Taxes are a part of our living | | | | much business as you can, and try to avoid the hotel |
| existence, though, and we are all normally used to the | | | | phone altogether. |
| taxation structure when it comes to food, houses, and | | | | Another item that might catch you off guard is the |
| even hotels. But, when it comes down to undisclosed | | | | mini-bar. This is the convenient stock of junk food and |
| fees that are added to the bill at a hotel, it makes us | | | | alcohol that the hotel places in your room to torture |
| stop and analyze the bill in depth. There are questions | | | | you with. Most likely, you could walk down the hallway |
| that can be asked and precautions that can be made | | | | to the vending machine and get a candy bar for a |
| prior to stepping foot in the door of the hotel to make | | | | fraction of the price than the one in the min-bar. The |
| sure you are not scammed by the extra hotel fees. | | | | alcohol is priced so ridiculously that you might as well |
| Stay as far away from room service as possible. As | | | | be purchasing stock in alcohol. Simply stated, make |
| a matter of fact, unless the hotel offers a free | | | | sure to stay away from the mini bar unless you're |
| continental breakfast, stay completely away from the | | | | ready to pay exorbitant prices. |
| hotel menu. The hotel presents a menu for the | | | | In order to avoid those little fees from adding |
| convenience of the customers staying there, but the | | | | themselves on your bill and sneaking up on you, be |
| food is not obtainable at an economical price. You are | | | | aware of what services are included and which will |
| paying for convenience when it comes to the price of | | | | incur extra fees. Ask the hotel concierge what fees |
| the hotel food, so take it upon yourself to hit a | | | | you can expect to see on your bill before you ever |
| restaurant down the street instead of purchasing the | | | | check into the hotel. Finally, straightforwardly ask the |
| food at the hotel. If you are simply stuck on the fact | | | | person at the reception desk what you can expect |
| that you do not have the energy to go anywhere | | | | the final bill to be and which services are included in |
| other than the hotel to eat, and you end up ordering | | | | your stay while you are checking in to ensure that |
| from room service, be sure to either pay when it is | | | | score on the hotel you found comes out discounted |
| delivered and hold on to the receipt, or check the hotel | | | | after all. |
| bill carefully on the line item where your order is to | | | | |