travelodge-smoking 'fine'

[Rodzo]

Addition to this tread -

 

Around 3 years ago my wife and I were 'fined' 50 quid for allegedly smoking in our room by a hotel

on the Tettenhall road, Wolverhampton. They clearly spotted that she was a smoker when she went

outside to have a puff. We only realised what they'd been up to when the next barclaycard statement

arrived a couple of weeks later. Naturally we protested to the hotel but they simply refused to discuss

it and, in fact, put the phone down on us.

 

A subsequent call to barclaycard got us nowhere. According to them, the hotel were within their

rights in helping themselves to another tranche of our hard earned without being required to

substantiate their claim in any way. This shifty (my wife's word), crew had their story accepted

without demur while we, after 40 odd unblemished years with the same credit card outfit were

assumed to be guilty as charged.

 

The amount being too small to justify going to law, we put it down to experience, but have still in

a way extracted a small revenge on those we foolishly trusted.

 

After thinking about it for a while we acquired another credit card and split our outgoings between

the two. As our monthly spend through the odious barclaycard was usually £2000+ we have,

in the interim period 'fined' them 36 months X £1000 X 3% = over a grand of their profit down

the drain. Further, I cherish the true and earnest hope that before I die, I will have deprived them of

many thousands more.

 

Rodzo