Massively OT, but at least I might get some insight here...

Travelling with kids brings its own challenges - averting the steely eyed gaze of a DYKWIA as you settle into 64A etc etc, but hotels are a huge bugbear.

Kudos to Radisson SAS who at some properties load adjoining rooms into inventory as "family suites" so you're guaranteed that interconnecting door at the outset and presumably if they sell out of regular rooms, they just split the family suites back out again.

However, why can't anyone else do this? grr....

I can't see why the approach is detrimental to revenue - infact it encourages people to take two rooms where they might have just taken one previously.

I'm trying to get into the Novotel at St Pancras later in the week and despite being very quiet (their words not mine) they cannot guarantee the interconnecting rooms until 2pm on the day of arrival.

Am I missing something, or does every other hotel chain just have it in for families wanting adjoining rooms?