🚨 Travel Scam Alert – Hotel Xcaret México & Expedia 🚨
We want to share our shocking experience so other families won’t get trapped like we did.
From August 7th to August 10th, we booked two rooms at Hotel Xcaret México through Expedia. Each room clearly showed it could accommodate 4 guests, and we entered our children’s ages during booking. The system confirmed the reservation with a final price of $1,570 per room per night.
But when we arrived at the hotel to check in, the front desk suddenly told us that children over 3 years old must pay an additional charge. They demanded a shocking $10,700 extra!
We were completely stunned. Expedia refused to refund, and the hotel is located in a remote area. Since it was already late at night, we had no other option. After more than 3 hours of arguing, we ended up paying $6,463 extra, which comes out to $430 per child, per night – on top of the room cost.
Here are our questions for Expedia and Hotel Xcaret México:
1️⃣ Why did the booking system accept the children’s ages and generate a final price if there were hidden child fees? Where were the rules or pricing standards disclosed?
2️⃣ Hotel Xcaret México markets itself as a “family-friendly resort.” On its own official website, it even claims that children under 18 stay free. When we showed this to the hotel staff, they ignored it completely. Isn’t this false advertising and deception?
We chose this resort specifically because we wanted a family vacation with kids. Instead, it