If you die in a hotel room will they charge you/your family for the cleanup?

[y08hci0299]

Plan to ctb soon in a hotel room, but I am afraid that they could charge the cleanup fees to my card/family. I come from a family that's not rich, and hotel mattresses are really expensive, upwards of 10k in many cases. Will they incur the costs of the cleanup or will it be charged to my card?

 

[kazatte]

i'm not sure if this is a general policy, so it might be different where you're from, but i just looked it up and unfortunately they will charge it to your card

 

[Lady_V]

i'm not sure if this is a general policy, so it might be different where you're from, but i just looked it up and unfortunately they will charge it to your card

Dang, that's cold. So go on a spending spree before. Got it.

 

[oneeyed]

I mean, I understand damage was done and legal aspects I'm sure but you'd think the hotel would have insurance.

 

[Dejected 55]

I don't know why this would be a surprise. If they can charge your estate after you die they will. Why wouldn't they? If you owned a hotel and someone did this in your hotel, would you just eat the cost? What if it happened several times because you get a reputation of not charging?

I don't think insurance would cover this either... but if a hotel could have insurance that covers it, there would be cost associated and they would pass that onto you in the form of a higher room charge... so... I mean, that's just business and it makes sense.

As for me, I wouldn't care after I'm dead. Many years ago I was going in for gall bladder surgery and the hospital asked me at checkin if I wanted to pre-pay. I was amazed they asked such a thing... They had my insurance info and it was all going to be covered... So I told them matter of factly, "Hey, so you have my insurance information already. I might die in this surgery according to the doctor there is a chance of that. Tell you what, if you don't kill me, then when I wake up and am out of the hospital healthy again then you can ask me for money. If I die, then I really don't care if you get paid or not."

 

[Jisatsu]

Hotels have insurance for that reason. It isn't rare to see ... suicides or other messes left by guests.

 

[passedawayinapril]

They have insurance

 

[Xiaojiu]

They will charge your estate or your family.

I also think CTBing at AirBnBs is not a good idea because they charge a shit ton more smfh