Japanese did not pay hotel bills

Miami
September 24, 2008


A Japanese national is being sought after by the hotel management in Malate, Manila after not paying the bills for his stay at the hotel.

Kingo Iida, Director of Sales-Japanese Accounts of Pan Pacific Hotel told the Manila Shimbun that they do not have the intention to put on jail the Japanese national who did not pay his hotel bills. “We just wanted him to pay, that’s all,” he said.

The remaining balance of the Japanese national is more or less Php300,000.

According to the hotel management, the Japanese national checked-in on their hotel last July 31, 2008 and even inform the management thathe will stay for about one week. He even paid for the whole week upon checking-in.

After one week of staying, he informed the management that he will extend for another week and even paid the deposit required (the hotel management do not want to disclose the amount). Then he did it once again.

After staying for almost three weeks, he again asked for an extension but he did not pay the required deposit. The hotel management is asking him to pay but he said that he is waiting for the money that he should be receiving.

The rate of the room that he used is about Php9,000 (tax included).

Until came September 8, 2008, the Japanese national did not show-up on their hotel. The management thought that he will come back because he left some of his things at the hotel like clothes, business documents, identification cards and ATM card and also because he did not checked-out from the hotel.

Days after September 8, the Japanese national managed to text one of the front desk officer informing the front desk that he will still come back and pay for his bills. But this did not happen. He even texted the front desk officer about “twice or trice” but the hotel do not have the record of it.

On September 15, 2008, the Japanese not yet coming back to the hotel, the management decided to make a legal action for the Japanese to pay them already. The hotel management took out his belongings from the room were he stayed.

The hotel management already refers the incident to the Japanese Embassy and to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) here in the Philippines to help them locate the Japanese.

The NBI is asking the hotel management for supporting documents with regards to what happen and be able to make a request for a hold departure order so that the Japanese cannot leave the Philippines.

The hotel management ask the help of the Japanese embassy to locate his family members in Japan to inform them that their relative has to pay the said amount.

Asked if they believe that the Japanese still here in the country, Iida said they thinks so because from what they learned, this Japanese has a unit (house) somewhere in Makati City.