1.   The hotel does not charge more if you pay by credit card.

2.   After all, who wants to pay the premium prices that airlines and hotels typically charge for last-minute bookings?

3.   Campus lodgings are more private than hostels or bed-and-breakfasts and are often in the center of town, where hotels charge premium prices.

4.   Even modest hotels are charging new millennium prices on the eve of the Big Day.

5.   Finally, hotels may charge a whopping commission.

6.   Hotels rarely charge the highest rates, what with discounts and specials offers.

7.   Italians dote on children, and the hotel had charged us a single rate without telling me since Julia was so small.

8.   Many hotels charge large surcharges for placing a call.

9.   Of course, hotels will charge those prices as long as people keep paying them.

10.   The big hotels are charging what you might expect in any other European capital, sometimes a bit less.