With another eclipse season upon us, hotels, airlines and cruise lines are once again finding ways to cash in on travelers hoping for the best view.
There’s nothing wrong with charging higher prices when demand is through the roof. But one hotel reportedly decided that simply raising rates wasn’t enough.
According to one Reddit user, the hotel canceled existing reservations so it could rebook the same rooms at much higher prices. Yeah, that decision came back to haunt them.
One hotel decided they hadn’t charged enough
According to Reddit user @VictoriaEuphoria99, the hotel decided it hadn’t charged enough for rooms during the 2024 eclipse. So it allegedly came up with a plan to make more money from guests who had already booked. The hotel cancelled the reservation because of a so-called, quote-unquote “computer error.”
Computer error. Riiiiiiiight.
The room they had made a reservation for months ago was suddenly available for $700 per night.
Suggesting that the updated price was significantly higher than what they had originally paid, @VictoriaEuphoria99 mapped out their revenge plan.
The revenge
They, along with some friends, booked the entire hotel, until they had no availability. That way, the hotel couldn’t get any “real” customers since all of their rooms were apparently reserved and spoken for. Oh, and all the rooms were going for a much higher rate than what would be typical…and much more than what @VictoriaEuphoria99 was originally going to pay for the room when they made their original reservation.
But their plan all along, of course, wasn’t to go through with it. About 30 minutes before the cancellation deadline (which was 4 p.m. the day before the eclipse), each person proceeded to cancel all their reservations.
@VictoriaEuphoria99 added that as of midnight that evening, the hotel still had plenty of availability, which meant they didn’t rebook those rooms last minute.
Too bad, so sad.
And lest you think @VictoriaEuphoria99 was the only guest the hotel allegedly pulled this on…probably not. Although they never revealed the hotel’s name, they did say it suddenly had a flood of negative online reviews that hadn’t been there before. There’s no way to know for certain, but it certainly sounds like they weren’t the only guest whose reservation mysteriously disappeared so the room could be resold for a much higher price.
You can read the entire thread here on Reddit. As always for Reddit, heads up for the potential for NSFW language.
Did the hotel deserve it? Well…I’ll let you decide.
If the Reddit post is an accurate account of what happened, canceling guests’ reservations just so the same rooms could be resold at dramatically higher prices is a pretty risky business strategy.
In this case, it also inspired one of the most satisfying acts of petty revenge I’ve seen in a while.
As one Redditor perfectly summed it up: “I hope their losses eclipse their greedy gains.”
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