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Nowadays to make hotel reservation in most cases, you need to confirm your credit card details. Can you make hotel booking without payment or credit card? What will happen if you do so?
Is your credit card necessary to make a hotel booking?
Possibilities of making a hotel booking without credit card depend from a specific hotel reservation policy. In case you are not sure what are the booking conditions, you should read them before making a hotel reservation. Sometimes you will be able to make a hotel booking without credit card, sometimes not.
In some cases, you will have to give your credit card details to guarantee the reservation. It means that you ensure the hotel that you will come to and that you are able to pay for your stay. Then the hotel has your credit card details to charge it in case you will not arrive.
If you do not want to provide your credit card details for the hotel reservation, you can make a pre-paid booking. Then you will be able to pay in advance for your stay by choosing another payment option (e.g bank transfer). However, it may happen that even for pre-paid reservations the hotel or booking intermediary accepts only payments with a credit card.
If you are a hotel special guest / VIP / loyal guest who visited a certain hotel (or hotel chain) a lot of times, it may be possible that the hotel will not ask for your credit card details during making a reservation. To make your booking process easier and make you feel appreciated. (Remember that the hotel decides who is a special guest. Highlighting by yourself that you are so special that you do not have to give your credit card details may be rude).
Can you make online hotel booking without payment and credit card?
When making an online hotel reservation, mostly it is not possible to do it without providing payment card details or advance payment. However, the conditions of making a hotel reservation online, depending on the website you make the booking. There can be differences when you book a room straight from the hotel’s webpage, and when you do it by the intermediary booking website. Usually, there is one common rule: when you make a hotel booking without payment in advance or providing credit card details, your reservation is not guaranteed. Therefore if you want to be sure that the hotel keeps a room reservation for you, you should pre-pay your stay or give your credit card details for a guarantee.
Can you make a hotel booking without credit card by contacting straight with reservation department?
The cases of making straight hotel booking without credit card details are depending on the specific hotel and the situation. In most cases when you send an e-mail or call the reservation department, they will ask you for your credit card details or present you with possibilities of payment in advance for your stay.
Usually, the hotel reservation policy cannot be broken. Therefore when there is a rule of not making reservations without credit card or pre-payment, you can expect that no one will reserve a room for you if you do not give any guarantee of payment. However, sometimes the reservation employees are making exceptions, for example for elders who do not possess a payment card or VIP guests.
Can hotel cancel my reservation?
Mostly when you make a hotel booking without payment or providing credit card details, your reservation is not guaranteed and it can be canceled at any time by the hotel (of course if you are not the hotel’s special guest).
To sum up:
- you can make a hotel reservation without credit card and advance payment, but it may be canceled by the hotel;
- to make sure that your reservation is guaranteed and the hotel will have a room for you, you need to pre-pay for the stay or give your payment card details;
- according to specific hotel reservation policy, the hotel can cancel your booking or charge your credit card.
You should read the booking conditions, to be sure your reservation is guaranteed or can you cancel it for free. As well, as to know if the hotel going to charge money from your payment card and when it may do it. Why hotel needs your credit card you may read here.
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