This Texas hotel started nearly tripling room prices.
“Because people are calling to take rooms,” the clerk said, according to KXAN, adding that “we need to (inaudible) the price.
I don’t have any control on the price.” The next morning, the TV crew again confronted a hotel clerk.
And the clerk also confirmed that 18 other hotel guests paid the much higher rate of $289 before tax, just like the TV crew.
While interviewing Attorney General Paxton on Sunday, the KXAN TV crew handed over the invoice the hotel had given them, which Paxton had his office start looking into.
“We had a team go out immediately and we found out there was some truth to the claim that there was price gouging going on at the hotel,” Deputy Attorney General Jim Davis told KXAN on Monday.
Best Western Hotels & Resorts told KXAN that it told its hotels not to price gouge, and was working to resolve the problem.
Forecasts show the Houston and Galveston areas reaching rainfall totals of 50 inches before the system leaves the coast.
Here’s what Texas looked like on Sunday following Hurricane Harvey Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday as a category 4.
Forecasts show the Houston and Galveston areas reaching rainfall totals of 50 inches before the system leaves the coast.