Appears likely that someone that has access to the hotel’s customer CC data might be behind this and the local police are aware of it too...
“Not only is this hotel horrible, our guests had their credit card stolen and $500 worth of purchases made on it!!! Reporting this place to the police. Do not even go near this hotel. Total crooks, denied everything when confronted but they were caught red handed” [1]
...makes you wonder what is really going on.
[1] https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g60763-d267183-Revie...