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I have nothing against hotels, but some of their common charging practices are so sneaky as to almost qualify as criminal. This page is not about outright thievery—that rare front-desk clerk who will try to slip in an extra night's charge on unsuspecting guests in 25 years of Italian travel—including 15 years of researching and writing guidebooks and magazine articles—that has happened to me precisely once. On the new hotel taxes Note that the hotel taxes being charged as of in Rome , Florence , and soon late August? Venice are all unfortunately legit. They are not a scam. They are a result of the local municipalities taking advantage of a new Italian law that allows them to raise revenues this way. All of the rip-offs listed below are perfectly legal; they're just not very nice. And, I should point out, by a huge margin it tends to be the pricier establishments that do this, not so much or at least less flagrantly the smaller mom and pop joints, where extra charges are often nominal and quite reasonable. Many hotels, though, try to squeeze every Euro they can out of you beyond the cost of the room. Because, hey: once you're booked in, you're bound to get thirsty and give into the temptation of that Coke in the minibar, or want to phone some great-sounding restaurant to make reservations for the evening or God forbid make a quick call home, or you may eventually want to, you know, eat breakfast or something. And then they have you. There are five main hotel rip-offs in Italy: the minibar , the telephone , the parking garage , the breakfast , and the laundry service. Beware the False Minibar Charge You should always scrutinize your hotel bill and ask about any incremental charge you see on there that is anything other than the amount you agreed to pay multiplied by the number of nights stayed. Rather frequently, I'll find a phone or minibar charge on there that I never did anything to provoke. Now, I try to trust in the goodness of my fellow human beings, so usually I chalk this up to a computer error or whatnot, but still, you must point it out and have it expunged. The most common of these false charges is for something from the minibar, and there's usually a good explanation well, not good, but explicable : the maid. No, she wasn't guzzling your mini bottles of vodka on the job. But many hotels use a shortcut to determine whether or not you've used the minibar—they have the maid jot down every empty bottle, can, or snack packaging she comes across in the room's trash can, and assume you got it from that tiny fridge under the TV and just 'forgot' to tick it off on the honor sheet price list posted inside. Why these hotels can't see the gaping flaw in this logic that I might have bought that can of soda whilst out and about my day and just happened to finish it—and toss the empty—in my room is beyond me, but there you go. Seven bucks for a can of Coca-Cola? A fiver for a miniature can of Pringles? Yep, that about sums it up. The minibar: minting money for the hotel industry since the early s if you're looking for someone to blame, it was supposedly invented at the Westin Ottawa. Seriously folks, just say no. But, for heaven's sake, just leave the teensy bottles of liquor alone. As usual, the more expensive the establishment, the higher the mark-up often, modest little cheap hotels will only charge you the same price as a payphone , which is very stand-upish of them. Many hotels will even charge you for what should be a 'toll free' local call so you can use your calling card! Their totally indefensible excuse for this bit of thievery is that you are tying up one of their outgoing lines, and so should be charged for the usage, when really they're just miffed that they're missing out on the chance to gouge you big-time for an overseas call. I have a simple rule: just pretend the hotel phone doesn't exist and use pay phones or the post office instead. Sound familiar? All of a sudden, you're looking at a triple-digit daily charge just for you and your wheels to spend the night. With rare expectations, hotel parking whether on-site or using a local garage costs far more than the municipal garage or public lot. Then again, keep in mind that most Italian cities have crazy traffic, arcane driving rules, narrow streets, and a mind-bogglingly large percentage of one-way or pedestrian-only roads, and suddenly paying a bit extra to just get rid of the car at your hotel door starts looking pretty tempting. Contact the tourist office or look in your guidebook to find out the going rate at the city garage, and then ask your hotel what their charge would be, as well as whether it's on-site garage, lot, or just a few spaces on the streets around the hotel and DIY, or if it's nearby and requires a valet and, if so, how much that service costs. Oh, another random tip: if it is on-street parking the case with many smaller, cheaper hotels , make sure you tell them you have a car when checking in and exactly where you parked it. The desk clerk will know whether you're in a legal space, and whether he needs to give you a special temporary 'residents' parking disc so you can run down and stick on your dashboard before getting ticketed. If the difference is significantly more than that which it often is , well, then it's up to your take on how much extra time versus money you have to spend, and how wiling you are to get ahem taken for a ride on the parking fees. Breakfast in a bar? Quick terminology lesson. If you want to specify a 'bar' in the American sense of the word—the kind of place you go after work or late at night primarily to drink alcohol and make lame attempts to pick up attractive members of the opposite sex—ask for a 'pub. Plus, if you patronize the neighborhood joint, you get the chance to rub elbows at the bar with locals on their way to work rather than share a hotel breakfast in a room filled with other tourists. Only on very rare occasions and in the very cheapest hotels do they charge you as little for breakfast as the local cafe would. Now I know that some hotels lay on a much more impressive spread—slices of ham, cheese, teensy boxes of cold cereal, even hot prepared foods like eggs and grilled breakfast meats either of which is a sure sign the hotel is catering to Americans who would rather not be in a foreign country after all —but even that is truly not worth the added expense. Skip it, hit the local bar, and get on with your day quickly and, dare I say, more authentically. But not at hotels—not if I can get out of it, at least. If, however, your hotel insists that breakfast is included in the rate and you cannot opt out, then you have carte blanche to bring your daypack down to breakfast with you and load it up with enough extra food to make at least a decent mid-morning snack if not a light picnic lunch out of it. After all, the hotel did insist, and you are paying through the nose for it just don't be obvious about it; for some reason, they seem to frown upon this act of nonviolent protest. No, those aren't the prices to buy those particular items of clothing. That's how much this hotel in San Gimignano is charging merely to wash them. This is the biggest rip-off at the hotel. Oh, sure, the phone charges are the most insidious—because the phone is one of life's daily necessities, plus unlike with minibar or laundry, they don't warn you with a price list first—but in terms of outright overcharging, the hotel laundry service just might be the worst. Just take a look at the list to the left, taken from a hotel in San Gimignano , Tuscany. And that's just to wash them. They'd come back to you still sopping wet! Let's assume you followed my packing list , and that you are going to wear one set of clothes while washing the rest—and that you won't bother washing the sports coat or sweater you brought alone for warmth and style. The solution? Two choices. One is to seek out an Italian laundromat, either coin-op, or a place that does it for you—though watch out for the latter, as they usually also charge by the piece if not quite so much. You want to find one that charges by weight. Bonus: many Italian laundromats now double as cybercafes. Actually, there are some hotels —guess which kind? Yep, the cheap mom-and-pop ones—which will do your laundry for a nominal fee about equal to what a local laundromat costs. The truly frugal option is to do your own laundry in the bathroom sink. Hang the wet clothes to dry overnight; on the balcony if you have one and it's warm, over the radiator in winter I stuff socks and undies in the radiator cracks, then drape shirts and pants over the top. I have yet to meet the hotelier who could satisfactorily explain exactly why they don't want you to do laundry in the bathroom sinks. One once mumbled something about lint clogging the drains, but that sounded pretty lame to me. My vote: forget the stupid sign and go ahead wash out your skivvies in the sink. I usually do this for about two weeks at a spell before taking the lot of it to a laundromat to get a more thorough washing. The only problem is, lots of hotels don't like you doing this uses up hot water, plus I'm sure the lint collects to clog the drains , and some even post nasty little signs in the bathroom scolding you against the practice. To me, that just means I have to be sneakier about it and can't leave the stuff hanging in the room all day for the maids to find. This article was written by Reid Bramblett and was last updated in July All information was accurate at the time. Author: Reid Bramblett. Now that's what I call service! 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