Hotel room rates are about to resume their climb. The latest forecast calls for average daily room rates to get a modest 3.5 percent bump in 2011, which means we’ll all pay a little more for our accommodations next year.
ROOM RATE
It’s been a while since we looked at the pets-in-hotel-rooms controversy. But today I have a cautionary tale about taking your dog on vacation.
The nightly room rate at the Best Eastern Sovietsky Hotel in Moscow is $279. At least that’s what the Expedia sales agent promises Ilan Saadia. But the hotel begs to differ when he checks in. It jacks up his rate to $839 a night. Who’s right? And who should pay the bill?
Elliott is consumer advocate 
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