Traveling with kids/disclosing number of people in hotel room

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't risk getting busted and not having a place to spend the night.

This happened to me a few times where occupancy rates were enforced. Fortunately we had a contingency plan - we were traveling with relatives and one of my kids stayed with an aunt and uncle. We would have been out of luck otherwise because they weren’t going to let us stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't risk getting busted and not having a place to spend the night.

This happened to me a few times where occupancy rates were enforced. Fortunately we had a contingency plan - we were traveling with relatives and one of my kids stayed with an aunt and uncle. We would have been out of luck otherwise because they weren’t going to let us stay.

What was the country?

[Anonymous]

I would want the hotel to know there were kids in the room in the event of an emergency, so no, I wouldn't lie about it. Just call and ask if you can bring a kid for room type X.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you're only staying one night and won't be spending much time in the room, why does it have to be this particular hotel? I'd pick something else for a short stopover.

OP here. Because we like it! It's really well situated so we can easily walk to a few restaurants we like, the hotel itself is really unique and pleasant, and we just have good associations with it.

But I was stressed about it being a problem and didn't get a satisfactory answer when I called so I just booked a room at a different hotel nearby. It is fine, I just don't like it as much. It's too bad because if they just had a standard room with two queens, instead of one king, it would have been fine. Oh well.

You probably gave them too much info. You should have asked - will you count a child under 5 as a separate occupant?
Many people aren’t smart and if you don’t formulate it according to their rules they can’t come up with an answer

[Anonymous]

You tell the truth. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would want the hotel to know there were kids in the room in the event of an emergency, so no, I wouldn't lie about it. Just call and ask if you can bring a kid for room type X.

What makes you think they will keep your kids in mind in case of emergency? The alarm will sound, MAYBE someone will check the rooms - all rooms or some, but not based on kids listed - and then it’s every man for themselves

[Anonymous]

Call them. They have a right to charge per occupant. Would you also sneak in a pet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 5 and I generally don't include my kids when I book a room for privacy reasons. Obviously if there's something attached to being in the room, like passes to something or meals or anything where the hotel needs to know how many people are there, I'll tell them.

Usually one parent checks in and then the other parent is with the kids gathering up the belongings to bring to the room after we know the room number. We do it this way whether all the kids are disclosed or not because it's more efficient.

In your situation, I'd book the room and not disclose your DC.

“Privacy reasons”…..hahahahahaha

Some of you think so highly of yourselves.

[Anonymous]

Whenever I book a hotel room online I just leave the 1 adult default setting and pick the room that best suits us. We have 3 kids. Nearly all standard 2 queen rooms have a max occupancy of 4. I’ve never once had anyone ask or care about us having an extra person in the room

[Anonymous]

You can't have 3 people in a room with one king bed.

[Anonymous]

I've never run into an issue with this.

[Anonymous]

In America yes, in a large hotel but not a small one. Always in a chain hotel.

In Europe, no, because they will likely find out and could ask you to leave. They have strict occupancy laws there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In America yes, in a large hotel but not a small one. Always in a chain hotel.

In Europe, no, because they will likely find out and could ask you to leave. They have strict occupancy laws there.

Asia and South America also

[Anonymous]

American hotel in the continental US? I don’t think it matters at all.

I would not do in a different country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can't have 3 people in a room with one king bed.

We did all the a time when traveling with our young child. She sleeps between us.