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review: Holiday Inn Zurich Messe (scam warning)

Your reviewer stayed at Holiday Inn, Zurich Messe (scammers) in early February this year. Your reviewer asked the price at the front desk.  The hotel employee reported something like 225 CHF plus local tax.  Why Eurotards feel unable to quote exact and all-inclusive prices is beyond the scope of this review. The hotel employee then pushed a card terminal at your reviewer, but the amount on the screen was around 290 CHF.  Local tax is normally just a couple of francs.  So your reviewer asked: is the local tax really 60 CHF or so?  No, local tax was tiny. They eventually admitted they'd made a mistake, sort of, in a Swiss way, which means not really admitting they made a mistake.  Logically, one might expect a retry of the card procedure, but this time with the correct amount.  That's not what happened.  The Zurich Messe (scammers), instead, pushed a document at your reviewer, and asked him to sign it.  It was agreement to AGBs, meaning ge...