Track Hotel Charges with a Favorite Number

When you’re staying at a hotel for a lengthy period of time, or when you expect to have numerous items charged to your room, it’s sometimes difficult to go through the print out at check out time and try to remember what all the charges were for.  It’s important to go through each hotel charge, because mistakes do happen (fraud, too).  But sometimes it’s hard to remember if you picked up that round of drinks of Tuesday night or if you had room service on Friday morning.

To make check out time a whole lot faster, when signing for restaurant, bar, and room service charges calculate your tips so that all the total charges end in the same digit.  It doesn’t really matter what the digit is, but when it’s the same you can quickly scan down the list of room charges and confirm that they’re all yours.

For example, add tips that will make all your totals end in the number 8.  The quickly scan your bill and if there’s a charge that doesn’t end in an 8, you’ll have to check it out a little closer.  This also works great if you’re sharing a room and charges with a companion.  Each of you can pick a different number, and then quickly scan and separate charges.

It won’t prevent all mistakes, and it won’t alleviate you of the responsibility of checking your bill, but it will sure make the check out process a lot faster!

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