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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!julienas!corton!chorus!grob
- From: grob@chorus.fr (Lori S. Grob)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: Prepayment for Hotels through Travellers Checks ?
- Message-ID: <1066@chorus.chorus.fr>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:05:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.143211.28288@crd.ge.com>
- Sender: news@chorus.chorus.fr
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- In article <1992Nov17.143211.28288@crd.ge.com>, saxena@smsun9.crd.ge.com writes:
- > Hi
- >
- > We will be in Italy between 10/14 - 10/24. While making reservations
- > for some of the hotels, they have asked to send the complete
- > payment in advance through US Dollar Travellers Checks (counter-signed)
- > as they do not take any Credit cards. I am not sure if this is the
- > right mode of payment as I will not have any receipt of payment.
- > What is the Check gets lost in mail ?
- > Did anyone ever have such an experience? Any information will
- > be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > Mukul Saxena
- > email: saxena@crd.ge.com
-
- It is not unusual to ask for a check or some other
- kind of deposit (not a credit card number) even
- hotels that take credit cards. And as someone pointed
- out in an earlier post, many of the smaller hotels
- in even the major cities in Italy don't take credit
- cards.
-
- But complete payment in advance is unusual.
- The normal thing is to pay a deposit for 1 or 2
- nights. After all what will you do if you pay them
- and then you get there and find that building
- has burned down or the owner has passed away etc.
-
-
- What I did when I lived in the US was to send them a
- regular check in US$. The point is that they will hold the
- check until you actually pay whether with cash or not.
-
- I would be very wary about sending signed travellers
- checks through the mail as you say it is like sending
- cash.
-
- You might give a call to an italian back in the
- US and see if they have any suggestions, like
- the equivalent of a money order in Lira or something
- like that.
-
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- L.S. Grob
- Chorus syste`mes phone +33-1-30-64-82-17
- 6 avenue Gustave Eiffel fax +33-1-30-57-00-66
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