Originally Posted by
Freetotravel
I haven't seen this before. I wasn't aware there was a different rate available for single occupancies unless in a room designated as "single". There are so few hotels with single rooms - Doubletree Greenwich in London being the only one I can think of at the moment. However the quote you have says that the second guest stays free anyways. For HH benefits such as complementary breakfast I do know that this is limited to registered guests in the room (not that it would usually be checked if there were 2 people appearing for breakfast from the same room at the same time).
The issue doesn't arise when the room only has a capacity of 1, as it's not possible to book such a room for 2 guests.
The issue is that for a room which has a capacity of 2, many Hiltons charge slightly higher rates when you put 2 guests in the booking versus 1.
This is more common in mainland Europe than the UK but in the UK I note that the Hampton Corby does it, because they consider the breakfast "included" rather than "free" and therefore it has a notional charge of £8pp.
If two guests turn up having booked a room with a capacity of one, they (well one person) will be refused check in, regardless of 2nd guest stays free - they will be forced to upgrade to a room that sleeps 2 and probably the check in staff may not know to quote the single occupancy rate for the double room.
Although if diamond they may have upgraded you for free anyway, which is what happened to me when I booked a prepaid single room. My wife later decided to join and we decided to chance it, I got upgraded to a large room so there was no problem in the end and I didn't have to pay extra (except the city per person tax).