My number one pet peave about hotels: if you request a room with 2 beds, 9 times out of 10, it will have 2 double beds, not 2 queens. And this applies even to the "quality" chains like Marriott, Westin and Hilton. And it comes at a time when the hotels are pouring all this money into "designer" beds with fancy pillow tops and high-thread-count sheet.

In reality, though, if you have to share a bed, you really want the bigger bed over any other consideration. I'm sure very few couples sleep in double beds at home, and even the kids do much better sharing a queen than they do a double.

So why do hotels "cheap out" and provide only doubles? I would think the incremental cost of providing 2 queens over 2 doubles would be nominal, and the guest satisfaction it would bring (and therefore repeat business!) would be substantial.