A flight attendant who identifies herself as Monica Skylling has said she was hit with a $300 smoking violation fee during a recent layover, even though she does not smoke or vape, according to a video she posted on her TikTok account @monica_skylling. Her video has been viewed more than 123,100 times. In the video, Skylling said she was on a layover and had to wake up early the next morning. While she was doing her makeup at the table, she said she noticed a piece of paper slide under her door. She said she first thought it might be a note from a pilot about a schedule change. “It most certainly was not that,” she said, adding that the letter was addressed to her by name and mentioned a “smoking violation fee.” The flight attendant said she called the front desk and asked staff to check her room According to Skylling, the letter said a smoking violation had occurred in her room. “We hope this letter finds you well. We regret to inform you that it has come to our attention that a smoking violation occurred in your guest room on 5.3.2026 at 6:19am,” she read aloud. She said that was as far as she got before she began getting upset, explaining, “I don’t smoke… I don’t vape.” Skylling said she called the front desk to ask what was going on, but that the employee who answered was, in her words, “so unbelievably rude.” She said the worker told her, “Well, it’s a smoking violation fee.” She said she responded that she does not smoke or vape and had done nothing that would set off a detector. According to Skylling, the employee said the hotel had detectors “for a reason” and claimed the device would not have made a mistake. Skylling said she then asked the employee to come to her room and point out where the alleged smoke was. “And he never showed up,” she said. She said she texted some of her crew members, who came to her room and walked through it with her, and that they reportedly found no sign of smoke. @monica_skylling Is this a new HOTEL SCAM? #flightattendant #hotelscam #smokingviolation #layover ♬ original sound – monica_skylling According to Skylling, the crew then called the front desk again and reached a manager. “I said, ‘I just wanna know what this is about. We need to fix this, because as a flight attendant, we can get in a lot of trouble for this,'” she said. She said the manager offered to “take care of it,” but that she wanted someone from the hotel to come up and confirm there had been no smoking. “He again refused,” she said. Skylling said the manager then asked whether she had dried her hair, and whether she used the hotel’s hair dryer or her own. She said she told him she used her own dryer, and that the manager then “got real defensive” and asked her to send a photo of it. “I said, ‘Excuse me?'” she recalled. She said she refused, explaining she was already packed and about to leave, and added, “I’m not gonna unpack to send you a picture of my hair dryer when the ones that you guys leave in the room are gross and old and full of dust.” Skylling said that before making the video, she read the full letter, which she said stated a $300 fee plus taxes had been applied under the hotel’s no-smoking policy. According to her reading, the letter warned that if her company was paying and she had no payment method on file, she would need to pay before departure or the incident would be reported to her company. Other travelers have described similar frustration with how sensors and hidden fees created a nightmare stay at a major Las Vegas resort. She said the letter claimed an “active smoke monitoring system” had detected recreational smoking, vaping, marijuana, or cigarettes during a specific time frame, and that an attached report served as evidence supported by “independent research reports.” Skylling said she did not smoke, vape, or use aerosol hairspray or anything else she believed could trigger the system. Skylling said she showed the report on camera while hiding the hotel’s information, and that it appeared to show a graph with a spike and a duration of 21 minutes. “Really? Who smokes a cigarette for 21 minutes?” she asked. In a later update, she said she was never personally charged because her company paid for the stay. According to Skylling, she later brought the report to a manager at another location of the same hotel chain, who allegedly told her it was not a form he recognized. She said that the manager told her a hotel would need to verify a smoking claim by going to the room and catching the guest in the act. Disputes over travel charges are not limited to hotels, as one renter described how she learned the hard way about Airbnb billing and how she pushed back. In the comments, some viewers suggested other explanations for the reported 21-minute reading. “Do you thought about the housekeeping personal ?20mins ?think about it?many of them spend 20 to 30 mins in every room?” one person wrote. Others urged formal complaints. “Report to BBB. Also notify their local fire department that their smoke alarms are defective,” one commenter said. Another focused on the hair dryer detail. “So now we can’t use our own hair dryers in hotels?!?!?” the commenter wrote. Another person pointed out that many have shared similar experiences on TikTok recently. The comment read: “For all the people saying, “No, they’ve never heard of this or its an isolated incident.” There are other people that have complained about this on TikTok alone. I personally believe it is a scam…” The hotel did not publicly respond to this video as of writing.