Room type question
Jan 16, 2016 | 8:49 am
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2015
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Room type question
Family of 3 here ( 2 adults + 4 yr old ) planning a trip to Rome & Venice in April 2016.
When I try to look up rooms I see a message that that maximum occupancy reached for "1 double bed" room. I don't think we will have issues with just 3 of us sleeping on it but since I have never been to Europe I was wondering if it is ok to book the room with just 2 adults on the reservation with choice points.
Can somebody please advise?
When I try to look up rooms I see a message that that maximum occupancy reached for "1 double bed" room. I don't think we will have issues with just 3 of us sleeping on it but since I have never been to Europe I was wondering if it is ok to book the room with just 2 adults on the reservation with choice points.
Can somebody please advise?
Jan 16, 2016 | 11:13 am
#2
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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If you've never been to Europe, you may not realize that:
1. Often the rooms are really tiny (smaller even than the rooms you thought were tiny in Manhattan NYC).
2. Beds are tiny too. A "double" bed is not king bed, not a queen bed, at best a "full size" bed (but don't count on even quite that!). So-called "double" beds may sometimes be nothing more than two narrow single beds pushed together so they're side by side!
They definitely can't accommodate three people if you're not sleeping on top of one another.
3. Hotels often charge per person, not just per room, and so you may be hit with a charge when they discover that there's an extra person in the room.
4. Local fire codes may be different, and it's possible in some places it may be downright illegal to have more people in the room than the website says.
1. Often the rooms are really tiny (smaller even than the rooms you thought were tiny in Manhattan NYC).
2. Beds are tiny too. A "double" bed is not king bed, not a queen bed, at best a "full size" bed (but don't count on even quite that!). So-called "double" beds may sometimes be nothing more than two narrow single beds pushed together so they're side by side!
They definitely can't accommodate three people if you're not sleeping on top of one another.3. Hotels often charge per person, not just per room, and so you may be hit with a charge when they discover that there's an extra person in the room.
4. Local fire codes may be different, and it's possible in some places it may be downright illegal to have more people in the room than the website says.