I rent hotel rooms on a debit card all the time. I’ve never had a problem.
Car rentals are CC only now because drug dealers were renting cars to transport drugs. That way the Feds couldn't take their car if they got busted.
“I rent hotel rooms on a debit card all the time. Ive never had a problem.”
You must either be staying in less expensive hotels or only staying for a night or two. Debit card had a daily limit on them. Two or three times I have had problems paying for a hotel room with a debit card. Once I tried to stay in the Marriott on Broadway in Times Square in New York. The room was $430 a night. Couldnt put it on my debit card.