Can I resell my hotel booking?

8/20/2018 3:54:40 PM

You can resell your hotel reservation only if terms permits you to transfer the name on the booking (similar to plane tickets). Without a name transfer there is a risk that hotel won’t able to check-in the person to prevent fraud. To avoid the surprise, it’s good to confirm the terms with the hotel directly or just take the risk. See: Hotel early arrival for another guest

There are several services that offer secondary markets to resell non-refundable travel tickets (similar to Craigslist, eBay or StubHub) such as Hall St, Cancelon, ChangeYourFlight and other similar. See: New sites let you sell unused trips.

10/12/2017 4:55:11 PM

This boils down to whether hotel reservations are transferable.

Unlike flight tickets which rarely are, hotels reservations are most often transferable. Most booking of hotels does not require advance information on the guest, they only require information for booking the transaction which is used to charge the reservation either immediately or later.

Some hotels charge do not even charge anything until checkout which is going to be a problem since they may charge it to the person who booked. Most times though I was able to substitute a new card at check-in but if the guest does not do so, the original buyer may be charged.

In some countries, registration of guest is mandatory and you may have to fill out this information right after booking. This is an exception and I do not remember where it happened to me last but there are several countries that send this information to the local police or an immigration database. In this case you would have to call ahead and ask for the substitution to be made, rather than another guest just showing up instead of the one who booked.

10/12/2017 4:22:21 PM

I have booked (with a legitimate purpose) quite a few hotel rooms for other people. Reservation in my name with my credit card. But I usually mention, from reservation time, that it’s for someone else, and mention the name.

You could try emailing the hotel, explaining that your colleague is coming instead of you, and could they update the reservation details.

On the other hand, a 50 EUR/night hotel in Dubai is at the lower end of things. They might prove to be quite flexible.

FYI I had a look at the prices for the Accor group in Dubai next week, plenty of options between 50 and 80 EUR…

10/12/2017 1:02:26 PM

Well…yes, it probably violates the terms in some way, especially if persons A and B are unrelated and otherwise unknown to each other.

However, most hotels are much looser about who uses a reservation than airlines so it’s much more possible than not. Many (most?) actually accommodate this situation by allowing another name to be added for check-in in case that person arrives earlier then the one who made the booking.

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