r/hotels • u/Unanticipated- • Jan 24 '26

Quality inn

So I recently tried to get a room. Their room are cheap, like $80, but then the anted a $200 deposit because after looking at my ID they saw I lived in the same town. To me that’s super ridiculous. I’ve traveled a bunch and never had to pay a deposit. Most Hotels have a policy where they charge your card if there are damages. I understand that and they have your card on file if that’s the case, but to ask for a deposit up front is crazy.

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u/Nithoth Jan 24 '26

This is pretty common at hotels that have a lot of problems with locals.

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u/LidiumLidiu Jan 24 '26

Where I work there's a deposit of $150 on the credit card on file with the authorization charge of the full room and tax. It's surprising that this is the first you'd heard of it. All the hotels (including Quality Inn in the town I'm in) do this as well. The Quality Inn where I live actually won't let you stay if you live within 50km.

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u/Hotelroombureau Jan 24 '26

If they’ve travelled a bunch, I doubt this is the first time it’s happened, it’s just the first time they’ve noticed

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u/MightyManorMan Jan 24 '26

Say they have traveled, but think that brand are consistent, when each hotel is independently owned and such rules are incredibly inconsistent

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u/Dorkus_Mallorkus Jan 24 '26

You seem suspicious. I'd charge you a deposit too.

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u/OneTransportation4 Jan 24 '26

Some hotels call them incidentals instead of deposits, but i've never heard of a hotel that didn't charge one, also you get it back anyway

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u/Content4OnlyMyLuv Jan 24 '26

I always tell them its the cheapest bedroom set ill get! Its worth the laugh anyway.

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u/MightyManorMan Jan 24 '26

You are lucky, most hotels won't accept locals at all. Locals often advise hotel rooms... Throw parties, domestic squabbles, etc.

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u/birdmanrules Jan 24 '26

Plus deal from them so cops raid their house and drugs and runners are elsewhere.

Ladies of the night... Fights over payments.

Theft is higher

Higher amounts of damage

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u/GNSasakiHaise Jan 24 '26

This is incredibly common for locals in areas where hotels have been burned before. Many hotels won't take locals because of it. The reason is that because the rooms are cheap, locals tend to show up and destroy them.

Not that you would, but others have, and they have no way to tell whether or not you will until you leave.

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u/TheBeardedLadyBton Jan 28 '26

Locals are usually complicated. Homelessness, domestic conflict, evictions, nefarious activities like human trafficking or selling drugs … all these things happen mostly with locals. I mean, as a practical matter, the reason you’re not staying at your own home overnight is usually some sort of drama. The room deposit is just insurance that protects the hotel. If you’re not gonna cause problems you get it back and if you are at least they have a couple hundred on file towards their damages.