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Old Nov 9, 2018 | 12:45 pm
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Originally Posted by pinniped
The Westin Kansas City has (or had, anyway) little Murphy rooms. Perhaps they were originally there with the idea that they'd get booked as day-use rooms or something, but we'd do a stay or two there each year where I'd always get an offer to add one on to my regular booking for an extra $40. With 2 small kids at the time, it was an easy call. It was a little odd-shaped room at the end of the hall that adjoined to a regular room in addition to having its own door to the hallway.

The Murphy itself was more comfortable than a typical sofabed. It was a double.

Only reason I can think of why there aren't more of them is that it's probably more difficult construction-wise and it's cheaper to just put in sofabeds. While sofabeds almost universally suck, nobody notices that until it's 10PM and you're trying to fall asleep in one.
Yeah, it's OK to put a 6 year old on a sofa bed, but I don't think too many teenagers are going to appreciate it. I'm particularly amused when a hotel lists a room's occupancy as 4 when 2 of those guests are supposed to be sharing a sofa bed.

Murphy beds are so much of a better solution. But I suspect they will remain rare due to increased cost.
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