Hampton Inn Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz

I used my debit card for a 126.50 transaction. Without being told my card was held 335.40. There was 3 different transactions put on "hold" on my account. $145.40, $140 and $50 (Not my totally of 126.50???) I had to talk to the hotel manager 4 times with no results, I finally had to call the corporate office myself to get my money back into my account. I had no idea this amount of money was going to be take from my account, so I proceeded to use my card, come to find out I had overdrawn from my account. When I spoke with the main office, the lady said, "well sometimes we don't know its a debit card so we put "hold" to make sure the funds are there". That doesn't make any sense to me. It caused me a lot of problems with my bank. 335.40 is much different then 126.50. I should have been told!! I think its poor business to do that, money may not mean much to them, but that big of a difference does to me. Other then that problem. The hotel was nice. I might stay there again, but make sure I let them know this was a debit card, and ask about the "holding of funds"