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Host just WhatsApped an extra for festival night after we already paid Booking

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Dimitra Angelou•145 rep•2

We paid Booking.com in July for tonight. Host just pinged: festival night, extra cash, "everyone is charging." No number I will type. Is this a real Kandy August thing or the 9.32 surge talking. We are in the room. He has the gate.

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If Booking.com was the contract, that is the price. "Festival night" is not a gazette you have to pay in cash at 9.32. Screenshot the chat. Say no once, politely. If the gate becomes a hostage situation, Tourist Police / 081 22 33 333 - DIG's own briefing this week was extra Tourist Police after last year's fake-guide seat hustle. A room extra is the same family of hustle.

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Heshan Abeyratne•1840 rep•1

Happened to us in Ella, not Kandy. We said the listing was the listing. He stopped. Do not hand over a number you "will not type."

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Leire Iglesias•241 rep•2

Do not invent a "normal" extra. There isn't an official Perahera room tax for foreigners on a Booking stay. Pay what the app already charged. Review in the morning when you can move.

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Nilmini Jayawardena•1510 rep•1

Saying no once. Screenshotting the chat. Not handing over a number.

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