At resorts if you don't list kids they don't get towel or pool privileges.
In some places parents try to put 5 or 6 people in a room where fire code says 4.

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Anonymous wrote:Hotels need to know how many people are in the building in case of emergency.

Why, exactly?

So they can dig the bodies out of the rubble of an earthquake

Yeah but you don’t list people you invite back to your room. Countless times, we’ve had relatives come back to our room or their kids stay the night. Those people aren’t counted in any count.

I have never ended up with random relatives in my room. What even is this?

So odd.

Yes, as someone who had a family
Member die in a fire, it’s important for them to know how many actual occupants are in the room. I don’t care if it costs more.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, because they're teens and I want the room options for 4 people not the one king bed. I just put them as adults because I'm lazy and hate picking their ages every single time. It makes absolutely no difference in price.

This is brilliant. Unless it’s a resort that charges different rates for kids, I’m doing this from now on. I hate that listing kids requires additional drop downs, and why am I always compelled to enter their correct age?

SAME

That has always annoyed the $#% out of me. Don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier?!

But FWIW I have definitely seen rates change, in real time, when I added kids to the reservation.

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Anonymous wrote:Hotels need to know how many people are in the building in case of emergency.

Why, exactly?

So they can dig the bodies out of the rubble of an earthquake

Yeah but you don’t list people you invite back to your room. Countless times, we’ve had relatives come back to our room or their kids stay the night. Those people aren’t counted in any count.

???!!! This is strange

I always list everyone, because I wouldn’t want to be turned away. If you conceal occupants such as children it exceeds room occupancy limits.

I’ve had places where it cost me more but it was like small hotels in tiny towns near national parks out west. The extra fee was for extra towels. It wasn’t significant.

I always include everyone for two reasons. Most important is if there is a fire or other emergency i want to be sure they are looking for my entire family. The registry is what they use to see if they’ve accounted for everyone.

Second is that twice I’ve seen people not permitted to stay because it was evident they had more people than they reserved for. Once they were able to modify their reservation. On the second occasion because the group was trying to fit more people than the room occupancy allowed, they were not able to stay. My kids are anything but subtle so I have never risked it. Plus were a family of five and always needed a large room that could accommodate that.

I think the main practical reason at US hotels that don't charge extra for kids is to avoid being bumped to a one bed king room.

I've been bumped from rooms with two beds to a room with one bed while traveling on business with a reservation. Once I was even bumped from a hotel that oversold.

The emergency reason makes sense.

The age picker thing might be because kids are usually defined as 0-17. Not your college age child who is a legal adult but also your dependent. Also sometimes there are lower age limits set for pricing and for meals (at restaurants).

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Anonymous wrote:Hotels need to know how many people are in the building in case of emergency.

Why, exactly?

So they can dig the bodies out of the rubble of an earthquake

Yeah but you don’t list people you invite back to your room. Countless times, we’ve had relatives come back to our room or their kids stay the night. Those people aren’t counted in any count.

I have never ended up with random relatives in my room. What even is this?

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Anonymous wrote:Hotels need to know how many people are in the building in case of emergency.

Why, exactly?

So they can dig the bodies out of the rubble of an earthquake

Yeah but you don’t list people you invite back to your room. Countless times, we’ve had relatives come back to our room or their kids stay the night. Those people aren’t counted in any count.

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine intentionally not listing them, but some of the websites are annoying and zero out the kids if you change other parameters, so I've inadvertently left them off.

I’ve done this too on some annoying websites. It makes absolutely no difference.