She really blew it.
A girl from Perth, Australia was charged $1,400 by her hotel after her blow dryer set off the fireplace alarm.
The girl, whom Perth Now gave the pseudonym Kelly, decided to book a room on the Novotel Perth Langley before a Saturday concert, the local outlet reported.
Before seeing the Ministry of Sound concert at Kings Park, she showered in her hotel room, styled her hair and was greeted by firefighters at her hotel room door before she even had a likelihood to dress.
While the concert may need been music to her ears, a lower note was the $1,400 charge (about $940 within the US) she saw on her hotel bill three days later.
She said she called her hotel they usually told her she’d been charged a hearth department call-out fee. The outlet reported that the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) fee is $1,337 though, which is $63 lower than she was charged.
The charge overdrew Kelly’s account and he or she called the hotel to get them to reverse the charge, but they initially refused.
“They sent no email, I called the hotel, (reception) said it was of their terms and conditions,” she lamented.
“So if you happen to’re at a buffet and the alarm goes off are they going to charge you for burning your toast?” she added.
She then claimed that the hotel stopped taking her calls and didn’t let her speak to a manager. Finally, after getting her emails, a manager refunded her charge.
The Post reached out to the hotel for comment.
