A Rhode Island weekend took an expensive turn when Jessica Sathre’s hotel bill suddenly doubled.

“That put a tamper on everything,” she remembered.

Sathre had traveled from Arizona to Newport to see her son graduate from the Navy Officer Candidate School.

After three days of celebration, she went to check out and discovered the hotel had charged her $500 for smoking in her room.

Sathre is a registered nurse and said she doesn’t smoke or vape.

“As a nurse practitioner, I pride myself on my integrity. My patients need to trust me, so the fact that I don’t smoke, and I’m telling you I don’t smoke, I feel like it should be trustworthy just by me saying it,” Sathre said.

She even offered to get tested for THC and nicotine, but the hotel manager wouldn’t budge.

“It was just beyond frustra

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