Margarita
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Only after booking on Booking.com you will understand that, despite the free cancellation, you have to pay 50% of the value of your reservation as a deposit in order for your reservation to be confirmed by the hotel.
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Thomas,
Booking.com is an intermediary platform where the hotel, i.e. you fill in all the information about your conditions, and the responsibility for the published information is yours, not Booking's, since you decide if you will require a deposit, and not them. Anyway. It is not mentioned anywhere on the booking page of your hotel that you require 50% deposit to guarantee the reservation. I understood it only after the reservation was made. Moreover, the link you are sending for the deposit payment is not linked to Booking, making it more than suspicious, given the increase in scams.
So "Do you not think there is someting wrong in that?" and since when summer is "very high season" in a ski resort?
I travel a lot using booking reservations and I know my rights. So you are the exception, not the other hotels, and that is why I am warning people with my post. Specifically, the problem is not that you want a 50% deposit, but that you have not described that it will be requested as guarantee of the reservation.