Originally Posted by voop

You've been lucky, then. I've tried to check in to a Toyoko-inn in a twin room with a colleague once, and been denied access because we were both male. Digging around on their website, then, showed this to be an official policy of the chain.

It may be, though, that some hotels follow this policy more strict than others -- but I'm not taking any chances, nor am I giving my financial support to a chain with those policies.