Senior discount?
 

My father (who is over 62) will be traveling with me on an upcoming trip. If I
get one room can I book the senior discount rate? If I do choose to do 2 rooms do I need to have 1 room with senior rate and 1 room w/o or can I just book both with senior rate. Either choice will have my name for the reservation

When I am in doubt about the use of a reservation code, I usually contact the hotel directly. They can usually tell you if there will be any issues with you using a code.

It's just the std senior rate, not a special code though

When I've booked two rooms with my parents, I use senior rooms for both; just as when I book two rooms and use my AAA rate for both. I have seniors traveling with me in the first instance so no reason senior rate shouldn't be available for both rooms; and have a AAA card do see no reason for not using that when I'm paying for both rooms

If your parents are checking in both rooms & both are under their names, you should be fine. I've traveled with my parents before (both are in their 60's) and we've gotten multiple rooms before.

I happened to be looking at hotels for my inlaws in DC (who happens to be 62). The rate rules indicated at several hotels I looked, that maximum two rooms at this rate.

Check the rate rules, don't know if 2 is an official policy, or just the ones I looked at...

YMMV

Now if a person is a member of AARP (Code ARP on MR) then even thou they are less then 62 it should still be OK since a person needs to be 50 to be a member of AARP, and by putting in ARP you are simply saying that You are a member of AARP, by clicking the senior box you are saying that you are at least 62

Minor nit: you need not be over 50 to hold an AARP card. If you are over 50, and a member of AARP, your spouse can also be a member, even if they're younger than 50.

Major nit: Marriott no longer seems to be a featured hotel in the AARP travel plan. Using ARP as a code will generally turn up nothing.

That change happened quite a few years ago, AARP thought it should receive a substantial "program" fee to offering their members a discount

Senior rates (62 or over) are generally cheaper than AARP or AAA. You can book up to two rooms. You can put your grandchildren, friends, or streetfolk in one room, yourself in the other. All business are used to children taking care of parents: booking hotels, handling banking, ordering dinner. Just do it, and it will be fine as long as there is one old person in the party. The rates can be good, but not always. This weekend the rack rate at CC Gateway is $342, senior $119, special $99 plus Bonus Bucks.