What do you do when hotel rooms have a maximum of 4 persons and you have 3 children?

[Laura Corin]

Did you call or just go with what it said online? I just today made reservations for us where online it was going to charge me extra for two kids and then wouldn't even let me enter 5 people for one room. So I called, as our 5th person is a 4 month old and it seemed silly to me. The guy on the phone said it was fine, offered a crib free of charge and didn't charge extra for the two kids, he said the extra fee for additional guests was just for extra adults.

 

One place with a pull-out double bed didn't allow us to book for four on line. When I called up the reservation staff said it was fine.

 

Laura

[Kari C in SC]

We just always took the other kid in without saying anything. The girls would sleep in the bed, and we would make a little bed on the floor for ds with the bedspreads off the beds (one folded on the bottom and one on top for a blanket), or we would take in an air mattress for him. It's just one of those things our family ignored, as we couldn't afford not to.

 

:iagree:

 

Now we are actually down to 2 kids at home and have actually been getting Comfort Inn Suites more because we have points to cover it. Before points, we never got the bigger rooms.

[AFwife Claire]

In thinking this over, I would call back (hopefully you will get someone different). Don't ask if it is okay--simply tell them you want to reserve [whatever] kind of room. When they ask you for how many people, say, "2 adults, 2 kids, and 1 toddler, who has her own pack-n-play." Asking makes it easy for them to say no, when in reality I don't think it really matters. I mean come on--fire codes? Really? It's safer to divide up my family in case of fire, than keep us all together? And a 3 year old is the sticking point? Compared to a 200 pound man or something, who could also be the 5th person in a room? I'm just not seeing how one more little body makes the room dangerous.