# Should the hotel have charged me for this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920 "2016-09-26T12:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/21 "2016-09-26T16:28:09Z")
Your safety was compromised here by a poor design. I see an OSHA violation here … ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/22 "2016-09-26T16:34:03Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Your safety was compromised here by a poor design. I see an OSHA violation here … Well, he said it was in another country, so no OSHA. Plus, OSHA is for worker safety, not customer. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/23 "2016-09-26T16:42:21Z")
The hotel most likely had their insurance cover the damage too. There should had been a door stopper to keep the door from being able to hit the wall. I would had said “No your insurance will cover it for you !” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/24 "2016-09-26T17:05:46Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > I thought about arguing about it, but I didn’t want to make a big deal about it with the hotel in fear of making our hosts for the meeting lose face. Our hosts use that hotel a lot. First, check the bill to make sure that it does not say “tip for fitness center staff” instead of door replacement. And you don’t understand the balance of power in these situations. The hosts are giving lots of business, by which I mean money, to this hotel. Lots more than the cost of a door. If something like this happened at a hotel where the conference I’m involved with uses, our Arrangements chair would be down there in two seconds saying “charging for a door that broke? Are you kidding me?” Things in hotels gets lots of use. They wear out. Not your fault at all. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/25 "2016-09-26T17:41:41Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > The door came to about $100. The hotel was in a developing country, where things are a lot cheaper. The same door around here would have cost 5x that amount. I got lucky. I definitely know nothing about norms for hotel use in developing countries, so I would like to amend my previous comments to reflect "In the US … " ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/26 "2016-09-26T17:43:38Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > The glass (fortunately) did not shatter, They are using the wrong type of glass for their shower doors. All shower doors should be made from tempered glass that does shatter into miniscule little pieces. Large shards of glass breaking on a shower door are much more dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/27 "2016-09-26T18:30:37Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > I definitely know nothing about norms for hotel use in developing countries, so I would like to amend my previous comments to reflect "In the US … " I agree. I assumed, unfairly, first-world. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920/28 "2016-09-27T05:20:22Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > The door came to about $100. The hotel was in a developing country, where things are a lot cheaper. The same door around here would have cost 5x that amount. I got lucky. > > Yes, I did offer to pay for it as soon as I alerted them. But it was not exactly a hearty offer, more of a reluctant suggestion. But at a certain level I was also afraid that the hotel might charge the fitness center manager for the door, which I have heard of happening in similar situations. That would have been a month’s salary for him. Compared to him, I am a mogul… When I first read the story I figured it was a hotel not in the United States. I think your chances of getting a refund are fairly small. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-hotel-have-charged-me-for-this/766920.md?page=1)