Extortion by Hotel/Makemytrip

[RAMESH BABU N]

Unfortunately, both MMT and HDFC Smartbuy maintained the position that I need to pay.

MMT/HDFC got nothing to lose or gain out of this, While the property owner sensed the impending problems. He played safe n prudently.

 

[deepak84]

Yes , Christmas and New year has these kind of Mandatory Gala Dinner as per hotel T&C , but if you were not prior informed then it wrong on the part of hotel.

 

[msankadi]

Bhai kya zabardasti hai... Hai hi nahi humare Paas paise mandatory itna mehanga lunch karne ke... Aapko mandatory karna hai toh de do fir free Mein

 

[superstar@123]

Bhai kya zabardasti hai... Hai hi nahi humare Paas paise mandatory itna mehanga lunch karne ke... Aapko mandatory karna hai toh de do fir free Mein

Thats why I titled this thread as "extortion" !

 

[phoenix1386]

Most of the hotels are now resorting to such dirty tricks. AFTER TAKING FULL ADVANCE - weeks or even months in advance - they are either

* Cancelling the booking in the last minute (when you are about to start your travel)

* Falsely intimating that some repair work is going on n not possible to accomodate

* Offering an alternative hotel - which is exactly not a hotel - but a rented house - away from the locality or at a god-forsaken-place

* The travel sites - which forced you to pay 100% or 50% advance - taking their own sweet time to respond or arrange for returning the money. Taking upto months to refund - that too - after adjusting some fee for service rendered

THIS RACKET IS IN PRACTICE FOR THE LAST 1 YEAR - MORE SO FROM POPULAR DESTINATIONS - like Goa, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Bangalore, Delhi. Specially, during wedding dates n special religious/festive days.

Be it MMT or EMT or Treebo or GoIbibo or Yatra or Cleartrip....,

These service providing platforms are OK - but they are unable to curb this malpractice done by individual properties - small n unbranded hotels.

You have a funny definition of OK.