Most hotels will charge you a fee if you cancel your room booking less than 24-hours before you're supposed to check in. Ideally, that shouldn't be a problem, if you're not going to make a trip or vacation, you'll usually know it ahead of time. However, if your flight is cancelled, re-routed, or there's another emergency, Redditor drwired has the solution: don't cancel the room, push your arrival time out by a few days, and then cancel it, once you're safely more than 24-hours from your check-in date. More »