Hotel du Pont says it feared a lack of proper ID but man who booked room says staff told him ‘what if one of those people rapes or robs one of my guests?’
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A luxury Delaware hotel that canceled the reservation of a group of homeless people on Christmas night now says it will provide a weekend stay for six homeless people.
The Hotel du Pont’s reversal came on Thursday after a story by WDEL-AM about the reservation cancellation. The story caused a social media backlash, including a number of users who dropped the hotel’s Facebook rating from four stars on Thursday morning to just one and a half stars by later in the evening.
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