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"Here&amp;#039;s yet another cost for couples planning weddings: the negative Yelp review fee. At least for couples booking guest rooms at the Union Street Guest House in Hudson, New York, which charges couples $500 for every negative review their guests post online.  &amp;quot;Despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our Inn, your friends and families may not,&amp;quot; the hotel&amp;#039;s website notes, adding the hotel is &amp;quot;historic&amp;quot; and is decorated in a rustic fashion. &amp;quot;If your guests are looking for a Marriott type hotel they may not like it here.&amp;quot;  With that reasoning, the hotel&amp;#039;s policy notes that for any couple who has booked the inn for a wedding, &amp;quot;there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your deposit for every negative review of USGH placed on any Internet site by anyone in your party and/or attending your wedding or event.&amp;quot; Kindly, they will reverse the fee once the offending review is taken down.  The Internet has not been kind to this hotel. (Go figure.) Since the New York Post&amp;#039;s original story about the fees, the hotel&amp;#039;s Yelp page is flooded with negative comments, mostly from people who have never stayed there. &amp;quot;If you want good reviews, instead if threatening people, just BE GOOD,&amp;quot; one reviewer wrote. Another put it even more bluntly: &amp;quot;They automatically lose my respect and any potential business for this.&amp;quot;  The inn&amp;#039;s owners seem to be unaware of the Streisand effect. Named after Barbra Streisand&amp;#039;s ill-fated attempt to have pictures of her estate taken offline, it&amp;#039;s a general rule of the Internet: Whine about stuff you don&amp;#039;t like online, and you&amp;#039;ll only call more attention to it. And in this hotel&amp;#039;s case, likely lose a ton of business. Update: In a Facebook post, the hotel claims it was just kidding: &amp;quot;The policy regarding wedding fines was put on our site as a tongue-in-cheek response to a wedding many years ago. It was meant to be taken down long ago and certainly was never enforced.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s worth noting, though, that an earlier Yelp review may show otherwise. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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