Do you 'register' your child when booking a hotel room?
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Anonymous
| Last summer, we spend two nights at the Virginia Beach Ocean Beach Club and when I booked the room, I told them it was for two adults and our 4 year old child. We got a small suite with one queen size bed. When I checked the reservations online, we would have received the same room with the same bed if I had booked it just for my husband and I, BUT it would have been $100.00 cheaper. We are thinking about another beach vacation and I'm wondering if I should just leave our child off the registration. |
Anonymous
| Did you get a roll away bed? Some hotels have an extra charge for that, I've also stayed at beach hotels that have a resort fee that's assessed per person. |
Anonymous
| Some hotels do have extra-person fees (beyond 2/room). However, I've mostly seen them applied only to extra adults (18+). Is this a resort that draws mostly families or mostly adults alone? Because I can see applying extra-person fees to kids as an intentional effort to discourage families from visiting, which some resorts want. |
Anonymous
| I do, because I am nursing and need a fridge for the milk. |
Anonymous
| No, we did not get a roll-away bed. The suite was supposed to have a 'couch' that pulls out into a bed, but it was not working properly and the hotel manager told us that he did not have any other availability... |
Anonymous
| We usually stay at the Hilton Boardwalk Resort in VB or the Virginia Beach Ocean Beach Club. |
Anonymous
| I follow the rules of the hotel. If I can't afford the extra $100, I book somewhere else. |
Anonymous
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If the hotel charges a per person fee for kids i would list my kid because i would want to be honest.
If i am booking a typical hotel room online, i only list the kids that need an actual bed. I think they want this info to help you find the right size room, not to charge us more, so listing my infant would just confuse things. So right now i have one kid that needs a bed, and one that sleeps in a pack and play that we bring with us. I list two adults one kid, so that the computer program can look for the appropriate size room. |
Anonymous
| They don't just ask because of bed space, but because of occupancy/fire code rules. A third person is usually not an issue, but if their occupancy limit is four and you show up with two adults and three kids, they may well have to kick you out/make you get another room if they find out. |
Anonymous
| Never. |
Anonymous
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Nope, never.
I probably will when my kid needs her own bed, but at 2? No way am I going to include her in the count. |
Anonymous
So, you're an unethical person? That's what you're saying? |
Anonymous
| it sounds strange to me. Are you sure there wasn't something else going on, like the $100 cheaper was some kind of special rate? Did you ask the hotel about it and have them confirm that the extra $100 was for the kid? My guess is they would have matched the cheaper rate if you'd asked, or let you cancel the existing reservation and rebook at the cheaper rate, or given you a different explanation as to why that wouldn't be possible. Even if there was an extra person charge for the kid (which is unusual as PP mentioned), $100 is a ton - usually more like $25. |
Anonymous
| My boss has 4 kids, and he never lists his kids. All 6 of them somehow squeeze into a hotel room together. I have 2 kids, and I haven't been able to bring myself to do that. I always list all 4 of us. |
Anonymous
| Of course you should. Your kids take up space, creat more mess, and make more noise. Thus, it makes sense the hotel charges more. |