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7. september 2022
I am a Platinum Member of Best Western and had booked a "flexible member rate" room at the Best Western Site of Hotel Kle, so there would be no costs if I needed to cancel my booking. I actually needed to cancel my booking shortly after and did it through the BW website. When I checked my credit card bill three weeks after the cancellation, I found out that Hotel Kle had charged my credit card to the full amount, although I had booked the flexible member rate! I was really shocked as I travel a lot and this has never ever happened before. Not with Best Western, not with other hotels. The hotel hadn't realized that they had made a mistake. There hadn't been a reimbursement within three weeks. So I first called them and told them that they made a mistake and asked to reimburse me my money back. The lady on the phone said she had to talk to the manager first, she couldn't tell me if they would reimburse. So I sent my cancellation confirmation to them via mail, asking again for reimbursement. They answered the next day that the reason for charging my credit card was "pre-authorization". I honestly couldn't believe what I read. Why would a hotel pre-authorize my credit card after a cancellation of a flexible member rate? And pre-authorizations never appear on my credit card bill anyway. They charged my card for no reason and didn't admit they made a mistake. But they reimbursed it then. Anyway, something like this shouldn't happen. And if it did, they should realize themselves that they made a mistake and reimburse - and not wait for the customer to ask his money back.
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