Cascadas Dirty Little Trick With Room Deposit Refund
Not a big amount of dinero but happened to me both times I checked out last week. First time felt like I was short changed but refund already mixed into the rest of my bills. Think they shorted me $4-$5 from what I remembered at checkout and I didn't even have mini bar in my room on 4th floor.
When I checked out the 2nd time they definitely short changed me $4-$5 but I was already outside waiting for the shuttle back. Figured they would tell me they needed it to pay for cleaning the room or that I took something which I didn't. It just gets too exhausting to challenge it all. At every level of the transactions they are trying to clip you.
Then at the alley OXXO earlier in the week I bought a glass bottled beer one evening early. After I paid for it with receipt in hand the male employee said I needed to pay 7 pesos additional for the bottle since the purchase only included the liquid. I showed the receipt he just handed me and said in Spanish then why wasn't the 7 pesos charged before I paid? WTF? WTF? I said Ok then I will return the unopened beer but he didn't want to do that. We went back and forth several times as the que of others waiting to pay backed up. Finally he just said I bring the bottle back next visit (which I did but he wasn't working). It is not like 7 pesos is a lot to me but how it was presented and not charged with the original purchase.
Was he correct or just trying to pull one over on me? Bet he was surprised when a sober gringo speaking passable Spanish in an argumentative manner contested him. Hey if he pulled out a gun or threatened to call police I would of paid hehehe.