If trust is a concern consider the alternatives and I think you will find a credit card actually should prcomfort not worry.u00a0 Assuming untrustworthy employees it's far easier to commit fraud by knowing the account & routing number on a check.u00a0 That makes paying by check a poor choice.u00a0 If you pay cash you have the issue of carrying a couple hundred dollars or whatever price your hotel stay comes to.u00a0 Just imagine the cleaning crew looking through your bags during housekeeping.u00a0 Again keep in mind I'm assuming the hotel staff are untrustworthy.u00a0 Finally paying with credit, granted your card info could be stolen but creating a new card is harder than a fake check.u00a0 But if does happen you get the assurance of the card's fraud protection.u00a0u00a0 Visa, Amex, etc (all cards) protect you from fraudulent charges.u00a0 Furthermore the fraud protection employed by financial institutions catches a decent share of this before the transaction posts and you as the consumer may not even know something happened.u00a0 The interchange fee that sometimes gets bad press is paid by the merchant to protect the consumer.u00a0 What better system than to have the hotel (using your example) pay a very small fee on each transaction so that consumers and retailers are made whole when fraud occurs.u00a0 In this way financial institutions act like insurance companies insuring you can make purchases with the confidence.u00a0