Hotel reservations are not refundable. How do you deal with them?

Hotel reservations usually require credit card guarantee, pre-authorization or direct debit. If you want to cancel without receiving the relevant information about consumption and pre-authorization, and there is no relevant record in your credit card center, it is suggested to report the loss of your credit card (or reduce the credit limit to 1 yuan or close the overseas business), and operate according to your credit card. 50 yuan handling fee is required to report the loss. Of course, some credit cards are free. But even if you do, you still can't cancel your hotel. After reporting the loss, the hotel should not be able to deduct your credit card or pre-authorize it through normal channels. Some hotels will inform you that your credit card will be invalid soon, and ask you to update your credit card information and keep the reserved room for a period of time, usually three days. If you don't update your credit card information within three days, the hotel will cancel your order. If you get this far, congratulations on the cancellation of your order. To be precise, your order has not been established.

However, many hotels often do not pre-authorize or deduct fees until near the check-in date. There may be a long waiting time before this, and the closer the check-in date is, the harder it will be to cancel it in the future. Even some hotels don't apply for your credit card before you check in until you don't check in.

After all, the cancellation still needs the hotel's consent. Booking websites is actually very neutral. If you submit a cancellation application, whether by email or telephone, I believe the website will communicate with the hotel to help you get a free cancellation. But usually the results are not satisfactory.

In fact, what you need is a reason for the hotel not to "lose" or even "earn", and the cancellation of this reservation should be related to the hotel and within the service scope of the hotel.

On a website other than your reservation website, preferably China, search and find a room in the same hotel as you, with the same check-in date, higher price than when you booked, and you can cancel it for free, and then decide. Then I called your reservation website to cancel the reservation, saying that another colleague also booked the same hotel with the same name on other reservation websites, hoping to cancel this reservation. It is important to note that the website and the hotel are required to say that the same hotel has booked two copies at the same time, hoping to cancel one copy. Don't worry, the website will do it. Let's imagine that the hotel staff saw two orders placed at the same time. This problem is obviously within the service scope of the hotel. You can't charge me twice for staying in your hotel. The staff looked at it again. Well, it's cheap to cancel and expensive to keep. Then, if I don't cancel this cheap one, the customer will cancel that expensive one. Maybe the customer can cancel it before they find out. . . Then I will cancel this cheap one for him quickly. . At this point, your non-cancellable hotel has been cancelled for free.