Advance fee

[volver]

Hello,


I booked a hotel room. They asked me to pay a part in advance.
What should I say?

I paid the hotel an advance fee or a deposit ?

What else could I say and is advance fee and deposit correct in this context?

Thank you


VOLVER

 

[tpithan]

Is it not a "Booking Charge" ?

 

[tpithan]

Is it not a "Booking Charge" ?

(Or) An advanced payment for room booking

 

[tepatria]

A deposit would be partial payment, while an advance payment could be the whole thing. I think Booking Charge sounds good Tpithan, or Reservation Fee.

 

[panjandrum]

Recently I have been asked to pay a booking charge by one hotel and a deposit by another.

The booking charge was a trivial amount - an administrative charge related to on-line booking.
I would expect a reservation fee to be similar.

The deposit was the equivalent of about 25% of the expected total bill for my stay in the hotel.

The term advance fee seems inappropriate in this context.

 

[Lexiphile]

I agree with Panj.

An advance fee is what an author gets from a publisher, so that he can live while he's writing a book. I can't see it in connection with a hotel.