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Currently sitting out the front of our Miami hotel, waiting for the shuttle to take us to the airport.
Miami itself is pretty cool, the hotel we stayed at.. that's another story.
What do do in Miami : Drink, shop, drink, beach, drink.
We had cocktails with our meal last night, the biggest cocktails we have ever seen. 36 ounces or 1 litre. We managed to swim through it, just.
Most of our time here was spent shopping or just lounging down at the beach, our relax time.
The hotel... A few days before we got there, I got an email saying they were going to authorise my credit card so they could hold the reservation. I responded explaining my card had been stolen. They ignored that email and sent another saying my card had been declined so the reservation could not be guaranteed. Eventually they accepted my new credit card number. When we got there, they wouldn't accept our prepaid credit cards because they didn't have our names on them, so we had to pay in cash, after which we still had to supply a $100 desosit on a credit card, despite the fact we had paid in full and the rejected our cards.
When we checked out this morning, they told us we still owed more money on the room. We paid it reluctantly, then checked our records and saw that we didn't really owe them anything so we had a little argument with them and after a phone call to the head office, they eventually refunded our money and earned a negative review on TripAdvisor. The woman behind the desk could win a medal for the dirty looks she gave us after that.
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dad Sounds like other people on TripAdvisor have had worse situations with their credit cards. You may have dodged some real problems.