He Let His Friends Smoke in a Non-Smoking Hotel Room—Now He’s Screaming Over the $300 Charge on His Credit Card
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Parents, be careful before you let your kids use your credit card. You can’t always trust what they’re going to spend it on. Although, when a kid uses their parent’s credit card, it can actually have some added benefits, such as location tracking by seeing where the purchases were made and finding out if anything unusual is going on.
In this story, a dad lets his 20-something son use his credit card to pay for a hotel room. Then, he sees a $300 fee show up on his credit card bill.
When he called the hotel to find out why he was charged an extra fee, he didn’t believe their explanation, but they had evidence.
Keep reading for all the details from the hotel front desk worker’s perspective.
Guests dad found out the hard way that his son and friends hotboxed one of our rooms.
I used to work for a small but well know hotel chain. It was close to a popular venue for raves.
All of the front desk agents would look up when raves would be there to prepare for the guests who come here afterwards.
They always ask for a late check out and raid our snack bar, if they have money.
One of these guys stood out in particular.
She wasn’t too concerned.
It’s Sunday and I’m working dayshift. We get told from the auditor that some kids (I say kids, they were maybe 20 or 21) from a rave checked in last night.
I roll my eyes and am just thankful it’s a Sunday. Those days were usually slow and not a lot of guests were in the hotel.
It slows down after breakfast as that’s when most people are checked out.
The ravers are still in their room which is no surprise.
She finally had to call the room.
Check out time comes and that room is still occupied. They didn’t ask for a late check out and the housekeeping manager said there was a DND on their door and a funny smell coming from their room.
I call the room and inform them that it’s time to check out and, of course, now they ask for a late check out.
I said yes as we had only a few people checking in that night anyway. I wish I would have said no because they took a mile.
There was another problem.
About a half hour later, I’m starting to get wiffs of that funny smell so I walk towards their room and it’s clear they were/are smoking weed.
All of our rooms are non smoking and weed isn’t legal in my state. So double whammy.
I didn’t knock since they were still within their extension time. But as time went on, the weed smell got stronger and I was getting mad.
Other guests could smell it.
They were even late for their late checkout.
I called them at the end of their late check out and inform them that their time is up.
The guy on the phone said they were just heading out.
They took their time and 45 MINUTES LATER, they were gone.
Once they left, I investigated their room and took my phone with me.
This sounds awful!
I had a bad feeling about these guys and I feel like they took advantage of the late check out as an excuse to hot box.
I could BARELY breathe in that room. The smell was SO BAD.
I took in the damage. Cigarette butts everywhere, empty liquor bottles, half smoked blunts. My two favorites are the weed in the trash that looks like they tried to cover up and the dried up puke on the bed.
I took pictures of all of that and called my supervisor.
Now we get to the part where the kid’s dad finds out he was smoking.
She said to charge their card the fee for smoking in our rooms.
It’s $300 so I decided to put the pictures I took on the computer at the front desk so come Monday, my super can see proof and my butt is saved if the card holder calls us about the fee.
Sure enough, he did.
I was off on Monday and got a call from my super. Turns out the card belonged to the father of one of the kids. He was MAD and claims that his son doesn’t smoke.
They had proof.
My super explained that their room was non smoking room and someone had smoked in it. The paper they sign when they check in explains our non-smoking policy and the fee.
He is demanding a refund and sent us an e-mail “so it’s in writing”.
My super replied with the pictures I took of the cigarette butts and said there was proof of smoking so we cannot refund him.
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We didn’t mention the weed, just the fact that a non smoking room was smoked in.
He didn’t reply.
It was kind of them not to mention the weed to avoid getting the kid in too much trouble with his dad. I assume the kid will explain it away as it was one of his friends or something, but he’s most likely going to get in trouble. Although, if he’s in his 20s, there’s not really a whole lot his dad can do except be disappointed in him and refuse to let him use his credit card again.
Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.
This person thinks it’s valid to call them kids.
Another person knows pictures are important.
This person would’ve called the police.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a customer who tried to skip the checkout line but didn’t get their way.
But this person thinks calling the police would’ve been taking it too far.
The kids didn’t get in trouble with the police, but I’m sure the kid whose dad paid the bill is going to hear about this! Maybe next time he’ll think twice about using his dad’s credit card and smoking in a non-smoking room.
Even in their 20s, some people still act so irresponsible that it’s valid to call them kids.
They should just be glad they didn’t get in trouble with the police.
It’s a good thing OP took pictures. The pictures don’t lie.
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