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Hope that helps, I'm sure many others could tell you better than me 
and will help you for sure
depending on where you stay, you can use an app to check in. You would also use the app on your phone as a hotel key with some hotels as well. I know you can check into some Marriott Hotels using an app.
Some hotels let you download the app, check in via your app, then you go to the door and hold your phone up to the lock and the door uses bluetooth along with the app to unlock the door and let you in. In really fancy hotels, you can do everything from the app and never have to speak to anyone.(room service, etc) I would suggest trying to find places like these. You could use your prepaid card to book the room. As long as the money goes through, everything should be fine. Some hotels you are able to use both iOS and Android to unlock the doors via bluetooth. Hope this helps.So I have most of my bases covered, clandestine pre-paid hobby phone, pre-paid credit cards, secret stash of hobby cash, under cover email addresses, no-footprint web browsing, etc. But the one thing I haven't figured out is how to get a hotel room and still remain under cover. They require identification and credit cards for incidentals.
Any advise?
Thanks
Unless you go really cheap and get a motel notel than it's difficult, in my experience. ID they are going to ask you everywhere so no helping you there, unless you get a fake one. CC for incidentals, it depends.... some hotels actually take $200 bucks in cash and you just get IT back before you leave, others you can just use a prepaid card. You can get a prepaid Visa Card and use that. They usually only hold 100 to 200.00 dollars. Those could be found in any CVS or Pharmacy.
Hope that helps, I'm sure many others could tell you better than me and will help you for sure
Good Luck!
nd make sure the phone number associated with said credit card is to your throw-away phone.
That shit will get you in trouble. As long as you don't have a paper trail of stuff and all your shit's paid for way in advance, then you should be good to go.
Make sure to pay that shit like the next day. Never leave a balance on the CC you plan on hobbying with. Remember this is the credit card that doesn't actually exist (wink, wink). Never give them a reason to call you about this credit card that doesn't really exist.
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You might want to inquire of the provider that she get the room, and then add the cost of same to the donation
depending on where you stay, you can use an app to check in. You would also use the app on your phone as a hotel key with some hotels as well. I know you can check into some Marriott Hotels using an app.
Some hotels let you download the app, check in via your app, then you go to the door and hold your phone up to the lock and the door uses bluetooth along with the app to unlock the door and let you in. In really fancy hotels, you can do everything from the app and never have to speak to anyone.(room service, etc)
I would suggest trying to find places like these. You could use your prepaid card to book the room. As long as the money goes through, everything should be fine.
Some hotels you are able to use both iOS and Android to unlock the doors via bluetooth.
Hope this helps.
I've never done this, but I think that others have mentioned that you can make your reservation using your CC and check in using your CC but then, upon checkout, settle the bill with cash to wipe out the PENDING charges on the CC. They will probably keep the CC and your name on file just in case they go up to the room and find it trashed or the mini-fridge emptied, but the only CC activity will be a pending charge that is subsequently removed. Pending charges are usually invisible in your on-line bill unless you turn on that feature.
(Like when you buy gas with a CC: you swipe and get a pending charge of, maybe, $200 against your credit line. After you pump and finish the transaction, you are billed the exact amount and the pending $200 encumbrance on your credit line is supposed to be removed.
There is no way getting around your photo ID when you check into the hotel, but you can register the room under your hobby telephone number and use a prepaid debit Visa card for your reservation. You can pay in cash for the room AFTER you check out only. They will request a credit card for incidentals upon check in, but they will accept cash after your stay is completed.
+1 that is the way I have been doing it lately. No evidence on credit card statement and pay cash upon departure when you check out. Just make sure you dint give them your rewards, or FF number, or they will award points to your account after you stay. Happened to me at a Marriott.... But learned the next time.
I agree that a photo ID is likely required, or at the very least you need to be prepared for it. Therefore, if I am booking the room under my name, I will NEVER EVER use my hobby phone #! The last thing I want is my hobby # associated in writing with my real name. (I never want these 2 world's to collide!) Since you will likely be asked for a government photo ID, my STRONG suggestion is to get a US Passport card and use this instead of your drivers license at check-in. This has your name and photo but no home address listed -- so even if you are booking a hotel near home the hotel will have no idea where you are actually from or your address in case you forget something. My other suggestions:
1) Get a PO Box, preferably in a city different than where you live... 20 miles away works great for me.
2) IF you use a regular credit card, be sure to set them up so they no longer mail statements. But as a backstop, change the mailing address on the account you to reserve rooms will use to your PO Box also. Be sure your account also has your cell # and not a home phone #.
3) Set up your hotel program points cards (Marriott, Sherwood, etc.) as statement-less. Also register them with the same PO Box address... just in case they EVER mail you a confirmation or statement of the room(s) you booked. (IF you use or earn points this is especially essential.) Also be sure your home phone # is not listed.
4) Pay cash upon check-out.
Have connections, so I have no problem with hotels.
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