Attractions / 12.11.2022

How to book a hotel without a credit card and prepayment. Will not ask too much

Sometimes there are doubts whether it will be possible to organize a trip, and the price of the hotel was tempting. In such cases, it will be useful to know how to book a hotel without a credit card and prepayment. However, this method of armor has its own pitfalls. In this article, I have collected all the ways to pre-book without paying on different services. Represented step by step instructions help you book a hotel room without any hassle.

There are several situations in which it may be useful to book a hotel without payment:

For the visa

The package includes proof of residence. Most tourists book hotels with free cancellation just for a visa, and after receiving it, they choose a hotel more carefully for their stay. You can choose a hotel right away, but without a visa it is better not to pay for it. Even if you have already received a Schengen visa before, the consulate may decide not in your favor. It is better not to risk money, especially when there is such an opportunity.

Fuzzy plans

For example, you are going on vacation, but at work they may ask you to reschedule the vacation dates. Or you are planning a trip to several cities and admit the possibility of changing the route. For example, once on New Year We didn't have clear plans. One of the options was to visit Kaliningrad. I booked a hotel there, but there were no cheap flights. But managed to get advantageous tickets to Vienna. I canceled the hotel in Kaliningrad, and we quietly flew to Europe.

Lack of funds

Let's say you found good hotel, which suits you in all respects, but you cannot pay for it now. Not to miss profitable proposition, you book it without paying.

Why do you need a card number when booking a hotel?

When booking hotels, the following situation may arise:

No prepayment hotel with free cancellation, but credit card details must be entered;
Booking a room is possible without entering data bank card. In this case, of course, the hotel will not be able to charge you any advance payment.

In the first case, when booking a hotel, the electronic system requires you to enter bank card details. But it is one thing if, according to the terms of the booking, payment must go through immediately, and quite another if payment is possible on the day of settlement. A natural question arises: why does the hotel require credit card details if the hotel reservation is without payment?

Just imagine, the hotel sells its rooms in advance and is interested in ideally finding residents for each room. If a tourist cancels his reservation in advance, the hotel will be able to find other guests in these rooms using booking systems, but if the cancellation occurs the day before, then the probability of renting a room and making a profit will be much less. Therefore, many hotels set free cancellation of the reservation in the period of 3-7 days before the date of arrival. Cancellations later may incur a penalty. Most often it is equal to the day of residence. To deduct this amount, a bank card number is required.

Therefore, before booking a particular hotel, carefully read all the conditions so as not to get extra money if you need to cancel your booking.

In some cases, the hotel may block the full cost of the stay on the card. The hotel did not write off this money, but you will not be able to use it either. Sometimes it happens even worse: you come on vacation, and you only have a blocked amount of funds to pay for the hotel and not a ruble more. Even if the hotel unblocks them, the money is not returned immediately. In some cases, it turns out to write off a blocked amount for accommodation, and in some not. You need to be prepared for the worst situation in case of blocking.

In the second case, it is possible to book a room without entering bank card details. Let's consider it in more detail.

How to book a hotel without a credit card and prepayment

Booking a hotel without entering credit card information may be required:

Guaranteed no blocking of the amount of accommodation on the card. This is beneficial if you have a debit card and do not have extra funds.
Your credit card is about to expire.
You don't have a bank card.
You are afraid to enter card data via the Internet.

Unfortunately, not all hotels provide such a booking. However, you can find such options both through booking systems and through hotel aggregators. Let's see how to make such a reservation on different sites.

Booking a hotel without paying through booking.com

booking.com is one of the most popular booking systems. It is convenient that the site has a special filter that helps sort hotels in the desired city in accordance with our requirements. Most importantly, there are three types of filters on the booking site:

Free cancellation (card details may be required, but the reservation can be canceled without penalty until a certain date);
Booking without a credit card (just our option, credit card details are not required);
No prepayment (no prepayment required).

We will make a hotel reservation without entering credit card data step by step.

I took the city of Kazan for a sample. There were 1017 accommodation options.

The second way is more difficult. Booking is now really working with hotels in terms of the availability of booking without a credit card. As we have seen, there are many options for such a plan. If you liked some hotel, but without the details of the reservation card, look at the options nearby. For example, the Crystal Hotel does not provide for booking without a credit card.

Book a hotel without a card through booking.com

Other booking systems (island, agoda) work similarly.

Book a hotel without a card through Ostrovok

Book a hotel without a card through Agoda

Booking a hotel without paying through the hotellok aggregator

Through hotel search engines, we use similar filters to sort hotels. Aggregators are convenient in that they show the options found in several booking systems at once (including the most popular ones - booking, islet, agoda, etc.). In this way, you can quickly find hotels with a favorable room rate and the possibility of booking without a bank card. I'll tell you step by step how to conduct such a search in the hotellook.

Hotellook shows hotels if the possibility of booking without a card is available in at least one of the booking systems. Thus, it turns out to collect in one place all available housing options with this parameter.

After searching for hotels, go to the hotel you like and look for the phrase "without a bank card." For example, in the Cat on the Roof hostel I chose, only booking offers booking without a card, while the booking systems for the island and the associated travel do not have such an opportunity. In other hotels it may be the other way around. You need to be careful not to accidentally book another option.

Book a hotel without a bank card and prepayment on hotellok

If you have booked hotels without using a bank card, share your experience in the comments

Personal page of the hotel on booking.com

What can you find out about a hotel on its personal Booking page?

First, look at the location of the hotel on the map (if it is important for you to live in a particular given area). To do this, click the "View map" link above the hotel photo.

You can look at all the photos of the hotel - usually there are quite a lot of them, you will see not only the rooms, but also photos of the restaurant, hall, lounges and gym, and other rooms of the hotel.

We go down the page. Immediately below the photo you will find information about the hotel provided to Booking by the owner himself (usually the advantages of the hotel and its advantages compared to competitors are listed here).

This is followed by a field where you can enter the dates of the trip to find out the price of the hotel. If you have already entered them at the very beginning, Booking will automatically fill in this field. And if you left the “dates” field empty, then it’s time to fill them in, because otherwise you won’t be able to see the description of the rooms. Be sure to click "check availability" so that Booking will show you the rooms available at the hotel during this period.

Under the dates there is a field with additional filters to exclude rooms that are obviously not suitable for you (for example, you only need a double bed in the room; if you select this filter, Booking will remove rooms with single beds from the list).

Immediately below the filter you will see a list of free rooms

number name. Hint: if you click on the name of the room, a small additional window will open with photos of this room and its detailed description)
information about services in the room and what is included in the price. For example, if it says that the price does not include city tax, then you will have to pay an additional amount for it on the spot.
the maximum number of tourists that the room can accommodate. If two people are drawn in this column, and you are going to book a room for three, then this room will not suit you
price for the whole room for all days of stay
booking conditions. If this field contains the phrase “non-refundable”, then immediately after booking, your bank card will be charged for the stay, which the hotel will not refund, even if you cancel the reservation (as a rule, such stringent conditions are set if the room is sold with good discount). If it says “free cancellation until such and such a date”, then cancellation is possible, but after the specified date you will not be able to cancel the reservation for free - part of the room cost will be debited from your card, or the entire amount (the size will depend on how many days will remain until your check-in; the later you cancel, the greater the amount of the deduction will be)
the number of rooms of this type that you want to book (click the arrow to open the list)

Under the list of available rooms you will find Full description hotel services, as well as important information about the conditions of living at the hotel (accommodation with animals, time of check-in and check-out, and more).

There is another useful button on the hotel information page: "save to list". It is located in the very top left corner of the page. If the hotel seems suitable for you, save it in the list and continue to view other hotels. You can view your personal list later by clicking on the "my lists" menu item at the very top of the page.

Booking a hotel on Booking

So, you have decided on the hotel, weighed all the pros and cons, studied the description of the room and are ready to make a choice. It's time to click on the "I'm booking" button, which is located opposite the description of the hotel room.

After going to the booking page, you need to fill in the data for making your reservation on Booking.com.

The first window is intended for entering information about the owner of the reservation: according to this data, the Booking team and hotel staff will know how to contact you and where to send the booking confirmation. The name and surname must be written in Latin letters, as the hotel staff may not know Russian.

The second window is information about hotel guests. Important! In the "guest's first and last name" field, the names must be indicated in strict accordance with their spelling in the passport. If in the future you plan to submit this reservation to the consular services for visa processing, you should indicate all the people who will live in this room.

In the third window, you can enter your wishes for the room (number of floors, south or north side, and so on - the hotel does not guarantee compliance with these wishes, but will take them into account if possible. Here you can also enter the time of arrival, if you already know it - the staff will know exactly what time your room should be ready.

Press the "continue" button

We add some more information about ourselves (an emergency phone number and a way to communicate with you). If you check the box "I want to receive a reservation without printouts", you will receive an SMS from Booking.com on your phone with a confirmation link. To check in, it will be enough to show it at the hotel on the phone screen. If you are going to get a visa, it is better to get confirmation by e-mail.

Why enter a bank card number on Booking

If you book a room for which payment is required immediately, drive a card with sufficient funds - the money will be debited from the card upon completion of the booking
If you book a room with a limited Free Cancellation period and fail to cancel your reservation on time, your card will be charged cancellation fees after the period expires.
In some cases, the hotel may reserve on your card the cost of staying 2-3 nights in a room, even if the free cancellation period has not yet expired. If you cancel your booking on time, the hotel will refund your money within 3-5 days

How is payment made on Booking?

Technically, the procedure for withdrawing money from your card looks like this.

Upon completion of the booking, the hotel sends a request to your bank through Booking.com to withdraw funds from the card. If there is not enough money on your card at the time of contact, the bank rejects this application, the hotel informs Booking that the payment has not been received, and your reservation is cancelled. Booking.com will send you a notice of non-payment and cancellation.

Some banks may refuse to withdraw funds, even if there is money on the card, but there is no special permission from the owner (that is, you) to debit them. It all depends on the internal regulations of the bank and the terms of service for your card account - check with the bank if such an operation is possible with your card.

Booking on Booking without a credit card

If for some reason you do not have a bank card, or you do not want to enter its data under any pretext, you can try to book a hotel for which such a card is not needed. Click on the link "No card?" Booking will offer you similar hotels that do not require a bank card to book.

Your booking.com: booking confirmation

Upon completion of the booking, you will receive an email from Booking.com with a confirmation of your booking and the ability to print it.

The letter always contains information about the hotel (name, address, contact phone number), information about the guests of the room, information about the conditions of cancellation, payment and changes to the booking, as well as a link to the booking.com page where you can view your booking.

Booking currency. What is AUD, DKK, CAD, CNY and other encodings on Booking

Booking fines

On Booking (as in any other booking system) there is a system of fines. Actually, the fines themselves are levied by the hotel, and Booking is just a tool for interaction between you and the hotel.

A fine is a penalty that you will have to pay to the hotel for canceling the trip. Usually, fines are provided if there is too little time left before your check-in, and after your refusal, the hotel runs the risk of not finding other buyers for your room.

But in general, the size and conditions of the fine are very individual, calculated by each hotel in its own way and do not have any common framework for all. When booking a hotel, you need to carefully read the conditions of the hotel before clicking the "book" button (such information is always present next to the description of the room or price).

How to cancel a booking on Booking without penalty? What should I do if I forgot to cancel my booking on Booking.com?

The only correct way to cancel your Booking booking without penalty is to cancel it before the free cancellation period expires. In this case, you will have legal grounds to demand a refund if, for some reason, the funds from your card have already been debited.

But it happens that a person remembers the existing armor too late. What can be done in this case? Let's say right away that the methods listed below are undesirable, and do not guarantee a 100% result, but in most cases they will help.

Before canceling a booking that will definitely incur a penalty, remove all money from your card or transfer it to another account so that the penalty is not automatically debited.
If it is impossible to withdraw money from the card, try to go to the bank office and set a ban on debiting payment without acceptance (that is, without your consent). Then cancel your booking.
Typically, Booking.com or the hotel itself will issue a charge request no more than once or twice during the next week, so after a while you will be able to continue using your card as usual.
If the money has already been debited from the card, it will most likely not be possible to return it, since when booking you were familiarized with the rules on the booking.com website and the deducted payment will be legal.

How to get a discount on Booking?

Few people know that at Booking you can get an additional discount on the hotel you have chosen. Booking.com has a very nice “best price guarantee” feature, usually located on the left side of the screen just below the hotel search form.

You can use it within 24 hours from the moment of booking on Booking.com.

What is the point of using it: if within a day after booking you find a better offer on another site for the same hotel, Booking.com is ready to reduce your price to this bar.

Important! The offer of another site must exactly match the parameters of your booking on Booking (same hotel, same arrival dates, room category, and so on). Otherwise, the price will not change. Also, Booking will refuse to change the price if you have a special discount card or other benefit program on another site, thanks to which you received a better price.

How to find the Best Price Guarantee on Booking.com

After you have registered on the Booking.com website, you can subscribe to the most interesting offers from hotels (discounts up to 50%). To do this, find a special subscription advertisement under the hotel search form, click on it with the mouse so that a box appears for entering your email address. After subscribing, you will regularly receive emails about special discounts and offers that are currently in effect on Booking.com.

Apartments on Booking

On Booking, you can book not only a hotel or hostel, but also a separate apartment. To do this, you need to sort the options by type of accommodation when selecting (that is, check this box, it is located on the left side of the screen on the search results page.

You can also check the box "Amenities in the room" (search in the same column below) in the lines "kitchen / mini-kitchen" and "washing machine".

An apartment is always understood as a room with an equipped kitchen. In Europe, ordinary apartments are most often offered as apartments.

Update from 12/02/19. The scheme with the card generator no longer works - Booking has learned to identify the card for reality at the moment it is attached to the account or simply when indicated in the payment. But! The method with virtual cards still works.

Credit card details are no longer needed and your money is 100% safe on any booking or cancellation.

In September 2012, I wrote the first article in the How to book a hotel on Booking series, which aroused the most keen interest (today it has been read almost 300 thousand times) and remains relevant to this day. It talked about how to protect yourself from losing funds on your card accounts when canceling a booking on Booking. In short, it was recommended to use one-time virtual cards for booking with a minimum balance of funds, so that, firstly, you would not be charged the cost of living before you check-in, and, secondly, this manipulation allows you to save cash when canceling a reservation, especially when it is paid and you face a fine.

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But technology does not stand still.

About a year ago, I found information on the foreign Internet that it is not at all necessary to use your own credit cards to reserve purchases or book online, moreover, virtual cards are not needed for this. Now it is enough to use a special program code that will generate a credit card number for you.

During the year, I tested the effectiveness of this system on various booking services for hotels, apartments and apartments (Booking, Agoda, airbnb, etc.) and I can say with confidence that the method works 100%.

The bottom line is that each payment system (VISA, MasterCard, etc.) has certain algorithms for constructing a card number. It is this number that is validated in the payment system to determine whether such a card can be issued within a certain payment system, for example, VISA. The remaining block of data - the validity period of the card, the name / surname of the holder and the CVV code confirming the transaction, are checked only at the time of the direct payment, which means that they have no value during the booking procedure.

This is the principle of using this method, which will allow you to book any hotels, apartments, apartments, hostels and other accommodation on the network on any service (agoda, etc.) from now on without using your own credit / debit card.

There is only one condition for such a booking - you must make a booking, services that require instant payment (for example, airbnb) will not accept a program-generated card code, since it has never been in the payment card system in reality.

And then everything is simple. At the beginning of the article, you already noticed the names of payment systems, each of which has its own card number. Each time the page is refreshed, the data is updated and a new card number will be generated.

When making the next booking, you simply take the generated VISA, MasterCard or other required payment system number from this article and enter it in the payment data section. The rest of the data is filled in arbitrarily - you can specify any name / surname of the cardholder, any card validity period within five years from the date on which you use this card and any CVV code.

This is how it looks when booking a hotel on Booking.

The generated VISA credit card is entered here and the rest of the values are added arbitrarily. And, voila, the booking is successfully completed, and my money is completely safe - after all, I did not leave any data of real cards or accounts in the system. In addition, you can save the generated card to your profile and continue to use it for future bookings. And if at some point a hotel validates the card in an attempt to withdraw money and reports that it is not valid, you simply generate new map and re-enter it into the system - it is much faster and easier than releasing virtual card and a hundred times safer than using a real credit card.

You can be sure that your booking is confirmed to the highest standard using a "valid" card number, but with you will never be charged until you decide for yourself that it is worth paying for this accommodation. In addition, you will not lose money if you suddenly forget to cancel the reservation, and it will turn out to be with penalties, because if you cancel such a reservation, it will simply be impossible to collect a fine, since the system does not contain real payment data.

It is worth noting that the last point (cancellation with a penalty) I personally recommend not to abuse. If you don't want to go to a particular hotel, consider canceling your booking so that the hotel can sell the room. After all, someone may need it more, and the hotel will not lose money due to idle rooms, which means it will not have a reason to raise prices for other rooms to compensate for losses.

Otherwise, I recommend the method for use. In our information age, when personal data is regularly "leaked" to the network, using a card number generator is a great way to protect your funds from any encroachment. Plus, it's fast and convenient.

Oksana wanted to book a hotel room through an online booking site. Even though no prepayment was required, a debit or credit card number and the owner's name were required to secure the reservation. Can funds be debited from the card without the consent of the client?

Irina Ryabovol, official representative of the Momondo.ru ticket search service in Russia: “Providing your card details when booking a hotel, even if no prepayment is required, is a common international practice. So the client guarantees his intention to stay at the booked hotel. In the event that he suddenly does not check in on the designated day or decides to cancel the order, the hotel may charge the client’s card a penalty for the first day or for the entire stay, depending on the established rules.

A couple of years ago, the system for transferring guest card data to hotels was not secure enough on most sites. That is, in fact, hotel employees received open access to customer payment data. However, today this problem has already been solved - major booking sites transmit this information using a closed protocol, so you should not be afraid of unauthorized charges. Also, there are still hotels, mostly small guesthouses and apartments, that do not require a guarantee in the form of credit card details. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before making a booking.

In unstable economic times, it is better to pay for overseas hotels at the time of booking. Otherwise, if the exchange rate rises, at the time of check-in, you will be unpleasantly surprised by the new cost of living in rubles. In all foreign hotels, the calculation takes place in local currency, however, in booking systems, the price is converted into rubles and can be duplicated in euros / dollars.

If you selected the option when booking your hotel « pay immediately » , then the amount indicated in rubles will be debited from you. If you decide to pay for the hotel on the spot, then there may be several options: paying in cash in local currency or in euros / dollars, or paying with a Russian bank card (respectively, in rubles). Naturally, if the rate jumped, then the cost of living in rubles will increase. Of course, the local currency can behave differently and also react sharply to changes in the exchange rates of major currencies, but this already depends purely on the country of travel. Theoretically, there is another option for debiting - from the currency account of a Russian bank card, however, in this case, the money is first converted from local currency hotel to the currency of the payment system, then to the currency of the bank and then back to the currency of the client's account » .

Veronika Vasilyeva, Head of the Territorial Directorate of the Retail Business of URALSIB Bank: “By agreement with specific hotels, the site offers conditions for booking and cancellation of bookings. Typically, the client is given the right to cancel the reservation free of charge a few days before arrival, and in case of a later cancellation of the reservation, penalties are provided, since in this case the hotel may be without income. Here, in order to collect such a fine, the site requires you to enter data about the card from which amounts can be debited. This protects hotels from unscrupulous customers who can book a hotel just in case, and then not arrive and cancel the reservation on time. This is a common practice of booking systems and payment systems understand this practice, such transactions cannot be disputed (up to the cost of a room for one day).

Transactions from arbitrary sites can be protested if they are not confirmed by a code using Verified by Visa or MasterCode technologies. In the case of booking hotels, the rules of payment systems provide for situations when a client booked a room but did not show up, it is allowed to write off an amount equal to the cost of a room per day without the client's consent.

If you often make purchases over the Internet, I recommend that you remember the basic safety rules:

Pay for such purchases only from a personal computer on which modern anti-virus programs are installed.
Do not save personal data and bank card data if you pay through a computer at work or at a party. It is better to use a special card for online payments, on the account of which you can keep the minimum necessary funds. Remember that the site page on which the card details are entered must use the https secure connection protocol. If this is not the case, then it is better to refuse to pay on such a site. Many leading banks today have a system of protection against fraudulent transactions, for example, a digital password sent in SMS messages to a client's number, or secret codes on a password card.
I also recommend at least once a month to control transactions that took place on the card through the Internet bank, at a bank branch or at least by calling the bank's call center, and in case of loss or detection of fraudulent transactions on the card, immediately block it » .

Sergey Gavryushkin, Managing Partner at Gavryushkin & Partners Law Firm: "IN Lately booking air tickets and hotels through online services is becoming increasingly popular among tourists. There are many benefits to booking online. Firstly, it is fast, and secondly, the prices are really lower than those of the tour operators themselves. Usually, all tourists are concerned about the need to enter bank card details: is it safe to provide bank card details to third parties, and why provide such information, especially if prepayment is not required?

In most European countries, the following booking system has been adopted: no prepayment, and if the tourist refuses the room, the booking can be canceled without any financial loss. But in case of untimely cancellation of the room (as a rule, in a few hours) - payment for the first day of residence. From the moment of booking, the tourist is financially responsible to the hotel. In the process of ordering a room, the tourist is provided with full information about the rules of accommodation in a particular hotel. The booking procedure is completed with a paragraph on the consent of the tourist with the rules of the hotel, in which the tourist puts a mark on his agreement with them. The tourist signs an agreement with the hotel, on the basis of which the hotel has the full right to retain the funds in case of no-show or late cancellation of the reservation, depending on the policy of the hotel.

Providing bank card details is a guarantee that the tourist will come to this hotel. The hotel needs guarantees, as many tourists are not serious about booking, for example, they book a room and do not come, as a result, the hotel is idle and loses money. This is how the scheme of financial obligations between the hotel and the guest as a whole, adopted all over the world, looks like.

There are always risks. Their degree depends on the protection of the computer from viruses, on how verified the site is. If a tourist has any concerns when providing bank card details to a hotel, then there is no point in booking hotels through online services. In addition, any bank employee, waiter, seller can write off or remember bank card details. It's exactly the same risk.

To minimize risks, you can give tourists a few simple tips: book tickets only on trusted sites; to pay, book and purchase via the Internet, create a separate card, which contains only the amount needed for the purchase; activate the service of SMS-notification about transactions carried out on the card » .

Many people around the world go on new journeys every day. Someone is going to a neighboring city for a simple walk, a meeting of classmates or a concert of their favorite band, while others go abroad for an independent vacation or for work. It does not matter for what reason a person gets into new town, but if he does not have acquaintances or relatives there, then it becomes necessary to find suitable housing.

It is the search for a place to live that becomes the most difficult task for people who are faced with a new culture. After all, many hotels do not provide sites in Russian, and those who do not know the language can immediately forget about a telephone conversation. When renting a house, you need to understand exactly where the hotel is located. In order not to stay overnight on the street, you can use the wonderful accommodation selection system - Booking.com.

What is Booking

This service is very popular all over the world. Its main feature is that here you can find a cheap roof over your head in a matter of minutes. Many filters allow you to navigate by:

price per night;
the availability of rooms;
additional services;
location, etc.

Important! According to the statistics provided by the site staff, 300,000 rooms are booked per day from Anapa to Paris.

Booking scam

Tourist looking for accommodation

New users often wonder if hotels can cheat on Booking. An interesting feature is the constant alerts about which country they just booked a room in the selected hotel from. So you can understand how popular this place is with domestic and foreign tourists.

A huge selection of placements makes you use this particular resource. Regardless of where you plan to vacation, you can always find a lot of options, the only exceptions are North Korea and a few other countries. In total, users of the site have more than 200,000 hotels, inns and hostels from 164 countries at their disposal.

Note! The company always guarantees the possibility of booking a hotel without additional charges. Various promotions are also constantly held, which lure visitors to certain hotels at a reduced price.

Therefore, when answering the question of how best to book a hotel through Booking or directly, you can confidently choose the first option.

The service itself does not receive a cent from the client. Due to this, the possibility of fraud on Booking is completely excluded, the remuneration for found visitors comes from the hotels themselves.

How secure is Booking

Many people visiting the site for the first time talk about doubts about whether it is safe to book on Booking.com. This is a well-founded reaction, because when booking a room, Booking requires you to enter a CVC / CVV code, a bank card number and indicate the expiration date of the card.

Any person will begin to worry when he is forced to provide such data. At the same time, fears disappear if you figure out why Booking is requesting card data.

Entering card data

The subtleties of working with Booking

It must be understood that direct payment for housing occurs directly at the time of settlement, the site does not write off money. At Booking they ask you to enter the card number b cvc code to guarantee the reservation. The only measure for the hotel is to conduct a direct pre-authorization. This feature allows the hotel staff to freeze the required amount for the payment of the stay, having received proof that the guest will check in.

Once you have checked in at the hotel, you should check to see if frozen funds are available. If they have not been unlocked, immediately after entering, you should ask the administrator to do this.

Important! Sometimes banks can delay the release of finances up to 30 days, so you need to be prepared for this and take enough funds.

Sometimes attentive website visitors can find several different price offers for one room and think about whether it is safe to book a hotel on Booking.com. Such situations do happen, and there is nothing surprising in this.

A reduced rate room may have some restrictions, the most popular of which are:

the inability to cancel the reservation;
food is not provided;
The discount is only valid on certain dates.

Therefore, you should carefully check each offer on the site. Seeing good price, many tourists reach for the "Book now" button and then get frustrated when they do not receive breakfast or a wi-fi password.

Do not book until a visa has been obtained. Having booked a room through booking.com and providing confirmation from the site to the consul at the interview, he will not take it into account. In this regard, it is better to first obtain a visa, and then go to the site to find a suitable place to stay.

It also attracts the opportunity to completely free of charge cancel the reservation 1 day before arrival. This is very convenient if the trip suddenly breaks down or is postponed. Thanks to this opportunity, the client does not risk absolutely nothing and will not lose funds, as in the case of prepayment.

Important! Some hotels are tightening the rules and allow you to cancel your reservation 3-7 days before check-in. You should re-read the booking rules if there is an emergency and you need to cancel the trip.

How data is protected

To make sure that the Booking.com website can be trusted, you should understand how exactly data is protected. This service would not become so popular if it did not have a good security system. The peculiarity of Booking is that the data is sent to the hotel by fax. It seems that this method is outdated, but in fact it is the most reliable, because it cannot be hacked. Archival records with all personal data of clients are destroyed by the hotel staff within a week from the date of eviction of the guests.

Note! There have been cases when unscrupulous hotel employees illegally deducted funds from customer cards. But this happens extremely rarely and only in little-known hotels.

Booking cares about its reputation, in the event of such a violation of the law, the hotel is disconnected from the system, due to which it incurs significant losses. In addition, the client can always ask what to do in such a situation by contacting law enforcement agencies.

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In the event of a leak of funds from the guest's bank card, the hotel will be punished. Upon receipt of personal data of guests, the hotel undertakes to ensure their safety. If she does not do this, then she violates the law and the terms of the contract, which causes significant reputational losses, because now no one wants to stay in a hotel where funds from the card can be stolen.

Important! Despite this, it is still worth being safe from fraud. You can set a limit for withdrawing funds through Internet banking.

The advantage of the site is that it does not take any funds from users. His competence ends only with the transfer of data, and then the hotel makes a request for transactions. Due to this, when withdrawing excess funds, you can always challenge the operation.

Therefore, each client knows who to ask, to whose address to write a statement to the police or sue. It also allows us to say that scammers do not sit on Booking. Therefore, the question of whether guests are being deceived at Booking can be considered closed.

Comparison with other services

On the Internet, there are often similar services that provide services for more favorable conditions. In such situations, it is necessary to understand how much the Booking analogue can be trusted. Sometimes they may voice a request for an upfront payment, or allow data leaks. In this case, it is better to refuse to use this resource. This site uses the most modern security system, which allows you to answer the question of whether it is possible to enter the card number on Booking without hesitation, in the affirmative.

Data protection

Booking.com provides services on excellent terms, and it also ensures the safety of the finances of its users. A huge number of visitors are the most important confirmation of the safety of the service and the fact that there are no scams on Booking. Not a single year thousands of travelers around the world use it, and cases of data leakage are rare. That is why Booking was able to take a leading position among such companies, and its settlement system with hotels is called trust.

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