Cancelations made less than two (2) days prior to the arrival date will incur a 100% charge. If the room you are booking is labeled as non refundable, non cancellable or similar, all cancellations will incur a 100% charge, regardless of the date in which the cancellation is requested.

When you booked your hotel directly from the hotel you have two options.



1. If you booked your hotel directly from the hotel through an ordinary program, most likely you will be able to cancel your hotel reservation even 24 hours before your arrival date and will get back most of the amount you paid or won't be charged if you haven't paid yet. This usually is the easy case.



2. If you booked your hotel as an advanced purchase then Canceling your hotel reservation will not be as easy, since from the hotel's point of view, you already received a relatively good price and they don't want to give up on you so easily.

Now it gets more complicated as we are moving forward to canceling your hotel rooms booked via traveling sites or traveling booking engines.

Hotel Cancellations

As you have probably have learned, booking online no longer means that you are shopping among sites. Nowadays you have special booking engines that allow you to shop around among different booking sites all within one booking engine. As you may have noticed most hotel booking engines allow you to review the cancellation policy of the hotel you just booked. This is usually is shown on your hotel booking page. However, you should watch out for sites that promise "Free Cancellation". This can mean one of two things:



1. That you will have no cancellation fee up to a certain time period before the check in date. It may sound like a fair deal, but you need to check how long this time period is since it can even be up to a month before the check-in date. Considering the fact that in many cases hotels allow you to cancel even 24 hours before the check in date, this is not considered to be good terms.



2. "Free Cancellation" can also mean that the booking site doesn't charge you a cancellation fee but the hotel will. In this case you need to contact the hotel and find out what it means exactly. Hopefully their information will differentiate between the different fees and programs so that you can be clear which which cancellation policy applies to you.