• Reservations (was: Re: Christmas dinner)

    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to KURT WEISKE on Mon Dec 21 08:30:38 2020
    Mike wrote --

    What kind of guy goes to a bar with his friends on Valentine's day?

    Drunks?

    We asked to be reseated, and the hostess blamed Opentable for them
    not honoring my request

    I have never made dinner reservations, but have reserved motel rooms on
    my recent trips. Generally that is only my first stop* and in some large
    city.
    I've never had a problem with booking.com, except for a funny incident in Roswell, NM.
    My debit card is listed as William J., and I go my middle name, Joe.
    When I was checking in the clerk questioned if I were really me since
    there were two names, William and Joe. He looked at me, then my license with photo ID, back to the reservation request, back to me, back to my license as asked again if I were me.
    I produced several other forms of ID and he finally believed me.
    Never had that happen before and I thought it was funny. But had to give
    him credit for being diligent. :)

    reminded me that the request is just that, and went on.

    I've always believed that a reservation that's accepted guarantees
    whatever is accepted, except in rare instances (a mix up, the place burned down,
    etc).
    In May I reserved a rental car for two weeks in June. When I got to the rental office it was closed, due to Covid, and to use another one on the
    other side of town.
    When I got there they had no record of my reserving a car, but I had the confirmation e-mail on my phone and it was accepted. Thought nothing of it, things happen.

    I understand the desire to make as much money as possible

    They could lose customers doing what they did if word got around.
    A day or so after my stay I get an e-mail asking for a rating for the
    place I stayed at, good or bad.
    *Usually when traveling I just start looking for a decent place to stay around 1500 or 1600. Don't want to wait too late since there could be no
    rooms available. That's happened before and it was very late before I found one. This was on a busy national
    Joe
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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to JOE MACKEY on Mon Dec 21 16:45:00 2020
    I've never had a problem with booking.com, except for a funny incident in Roswell, NM.
    My debit card is listed as William J., and I go my middle name, Joe.
    When I was checking in the clerk questioned if I were really me since
    there were two names, William and Joe. He looked at me, then my license with photo ID, back to the reservation request, back to me, back to my license as asked again if I were me.
    I produced several other forms of ID and he finally believed me.
    Never had that happen before and I thought it was funny. But had to give him credit for being diligent. :)

    Considering where you were, maybe he thought you were an alien or a G-man.
    <GRIN>

    Mike


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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to MIKE POWELL on Tue Dec 22 05:43:02 2020
    Mike wrote --

    I've never had a problem with booking.com, except for a funny incident in Roswell, NM.

    Considering where you were, maybe he thought you were an alien or a G-man. <GRIN>

    Um, could be.
    Joe

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