3 kids in a hotel room where you are only are supposed to have 2

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Anonymous wrote:What? Are you really thinking that having you , your DH, and 3 kids plus an infant in the room will be pleasant and restful?? One suggestion would be is to have 3 kids stay in one room and you and DH in another with the baby. Get adjoining rooms so that you can keep the door open.

To be very honest, this sounds like no fun at all to begin with. Hotel living during vacation can be awful. I don't know where you are going, but you might think of renting a condo or house where you could have more flexibility. Good luck!

It would be 2 adults 2 kids (ages 5 and 7) and an infant. Infant would sleep in crib or pack n play.

That is very doable.

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I have two splints, and we never, ever got two hotel rooms. We just got a rollaway cot from the front desk. I think hotels are getting stricter to make more money, but feel free to push back for an infant.

It will be fine.

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We had trouble once out in utah. Fortunately we were traveling with family who only had one kid so they could take one of ours. Otherwise we would have been kicked out of the hotel because there were no vacancies.

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We get one room for our family of five and our kids are 16, 13 and 11 - all one gender. Flame away. It works for us and we all like it.

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The issue is fire safety for the hotel. If there's a fire, how fast can they herd how many people out of the hotel? And, when the firefighters say "Is everyone out?" if you snuck someone in, the hotel will say yes even if one of your kids is not counted for, because you booked for two kids when really there were three.

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Anonymous wrote:This will be the first time we will be traveling with our new infant. Spring break prices for hotels are already insane for a normal room for 4 people. Once I put in 3 kids, the hotel either has no availability or offers me a 2 bedroom suite, which sometimes will cost $2000+ per night. Wondering if it will be a big deal to just book for 4 people and bring the baby.

What will the hotel do if they find out we have an extra baby in the room?
Has anyone been kicked out of a room for having too many kids?

I remember many fond family vacations where the six of us would be in one hotel room with our parents, sleeping bags laid out on the floor. We would often wait in the car while my dad checked in and then went in through a side entrance. There will be posters who will go off about the immorality of this, but it created tons great memories as a child of family vacations, and I didn't grow up to believe in playing the system or lacking a sense of right and wrong.

+1000 We have five kids and our Dad. We usually get two rooms and we are crammed in like sardines. It is a blast and we wouldn't have it any other way! We were in NYC over Christmas and there was a porter down the hall helping another family. For some reason we were all exiting the connecting rooms through one door and the porter said to the guests he was helping that it was like 'looking at a clown car'. Our kids were cracking up! Plus, OP, a baby! Come on. No way should you be charged full freight for a baby!

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you going OP?

Florida or Caribbean. Flight and hotel prices are already double or triple for spring break. I am going to book for 2 adults 2 kids and then bring the baby.

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Anonymous wrote:What? Are you really thinking that having you , your DH, and 3 kids plus an infant in the room will be pleasant and restful?? One suggestion would be is to have 3 kids stay in one room and you and DH in another with the baby. Get adjoining rooms so that you can keep the door open.

To be very honest, this sounds like no fun at all to begin with. Hotel living during vacation can be awful. I don't know where you are going, but you might think of renting a condo or house where you could have more flexibility. Good luck!

2 kids plus a baby. Read more carefully.

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I think this is more than perfectly fine. I doubt anyone in the hotel would even care.

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Agree with pp's that said to check in with just one person, hotels are stricter. We've also had hotels tell us that they do not provide roll-a-ways anymore.

The nicer the hotel, the more strict they are going to be, in my experience.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is fire safety for the hotel. If there's a fire, how fast can they herd how many people out of the hotel? And, when the firefighters say "Is everyone out?" if you snuck someone in, the hotel will say yes even if one of your kids is not counted for, because you booked for two kids when really there were three.

You think they are not going to allow everyone to leave the hotel if there's a fire? Nobody is going to be looking at the ledger trying to account for adults and children. Everybody who can leave will leave.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is fire safety for the hotel. If there's a fire, how fast can they herd how many people out of the hotel? And, when the firefighters say "Is everyone out?" if you snuck someone in, the hotel will say yes even if one of your kids is not counted for, because you booked for two kids when really there were three.

You think they are not going to allow everyone to leave the hotel if there's a fire? Nobody is going to be looking at the ledger trying to account for adults and children. Everybody who can leave will leave.

And firefighters systematically go through every room searching for people. They will not stop to ask the hotel which rooms are occupied by how many people.

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3 little kids and parents in one room is fine. It's when they get to be teenagers that you need to spend the extra money for another room. Enjoy the savings while the kids are little!

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is fire safety for the hotel. If there's a fire, how fast can they herd how many people out of the hotel? And, when the firefighters say "Is everyone out?" if you snuck someone in, the hotel will say yes even if one of your kids is not counted for, because you booked for two kids when really there were three.

You think they are not going to allow everyone to leave the hotel if there's a fire? Nobody is going to be looking at the ledger trying to account for adults and children. Everybody who can leave will leave.

Oh my god, NO! What I'm saying is that the hotel can't make sure everyone is out if they don't know all the people they're trying to account for.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue is fire safety for the hotel. If there's a fire, how fast can they herd how many people out of the hotel? And, when the firefighters say "Is everyone out?" if you snuck someone in, the hotel will say yes even if one of your kids is not counted for, because you booked for two kids when really there were three.

You think they are not going to allow everyone to leave the hotel if there's a fire? Nobody is going to be looking at the ledger trying to account for adults and children. Everybody who can leave will leave.

Oh my god, NO! What I'm saying is that the hotel can't make sure everyone is out if they don't know all the people they're trying to account for.

In case of a fire, the fire department will search every single room and will not rely on the hotel's records.