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I sent a message to the Sheraton Miyako and will report back. As you noted, I could not get the deluxe twin room to come up when doing the search for three people. I just got hopeful when finding a room with more than two beds and hoped I'd just have to pay an extra person fee.
If the Sheraton doesn't work out, our choices for six nights in August are cash and points at the Westin with two doubles (¥208k + 195k points) or the Aloft Tokyo Ginza with a one king suite (¥198k + 168k points). It feels odd to cross-shop these brands.
There's nothing odd about doing what you're doing - with finite amounts of points and seeking affordable room rates, you do what you have to make the trip work financially and point wise.
That's the fundamental difference between business travel vs. family travel. With business travel, you know what your constraints are in terms of location, costs and duration of travel. For family travel, you have more bodies, more opinions. more costs and sometimes inflexible depart and return dates. On business travel, you know what you can deal with in terms of hotel type, services offered, etc. For family travel, not taking in to account a spouse's (and kids) travel desirements can lead to disaster.
Also know that, unless you have a spouse (or significant other) and kids who are well traveled, their sympathy for what you went through to book a given room or set of rooms is likely, unfortunately, low.
David