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To book a room for four when there is five of us?

136 replies

Rainer · 07/04/2018 23:12

That really. We want to be in a room together. The kids would easily fit in to a double bed all three. It's for a night before a flight, with parking for our holiday included and the cost doubles or just isn't available if I say its for five. Wwyd?

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HollowTalk · 07/04/2018 23:13

I'd do it, but there will be a lot here who'll tell you not to. Just don't all arrive at once!

C0untDucku1a · 07/04/2018 23:14

We did this last year. My ds wont sleep without me and we couldnt get a room for five so ordered a room for four instead. I slept in a room with ds and dd and gps slept in the other room.

Usually we order a 6 bed place for the five of us and im in with ds and dd anyway and we have an empty room. Hmm

Buzzlightyearsbumchin · 07/04/2018 23:14

Phone and speak to a person rather than do it online.

Gradiva · 07/04/2018 23:15

I would probably smuggle one child in and then claim the booking for 4 was a mistake if caught out!

snowagain · 07/04/2018 23:15

Do it if you want, but don't tell the hotel!!

Also, just hope there is no fire.

Bluecube1 · 07/04/2018 23:15

I hdid this before, family of five with 2 under 5yrs. Didn't want the expense of a second room or to be split. I do wonder about implications for fire regs tho.

MyDcAreMarvel · 07/04/2018 23:16

Ask for a travel cot even if you don’t use it, then they will allow five in the room.

Bluecube1 · 07/04/2018 23:17

did🙄

BrazzleDazzleDay · 07/04/2018 23:19

We're a family of 6, usually find the cut off is 5 persons per room. Premier inn has been the best for letting us just take one room.

SluttyButty · 07/04/2018 23:20

I've done it and had no qualms.

SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 07/04/2018 23:23

We've done it but been upfront about it as it's only fair and sensible. We have a co-sleeping youngest DD, and told them so. It's alway been fine.

Sammy901 · 07/04/2018 23:25

I’d do it.

unintentionalthreadkiller · 07/04/2018 23:26

We checked into a travelogue yesterday for the four of us with a cousin in tow just to see the room, check in gave us five key cards and didn't even ask so I don't think they even notice!

Mildred007 · 07/04/2018 23:26

I do it. 3dc, dh & I. Never had a problem so far. Re fire regs, how does a hotel know how many people are in it at one time anyway? People come & go all day & night?

DramaAlpaca · 07/04/2018 23:28

We've done it when the DC were small. Didn't think twice tbh.

JaniceBattersby · 07/04/2018 23:36

I’ve worked in many hotels and am wife of a firefighter, so before loads of people pile on talking about it being ‘illegal’ and some vague reference to ‘fire regs’: it’s not illegal and fire regs do not stipulate how many people can be in one bedroom at any time, so don’t worry about that.

Premier In have never blinked an eyelid when we’ve done this for us and our three kids. In fact, last time we booked two rooms and the receptionist told us next time we should just book one and they’d give us extra pillows if needed.

Weezol · 07/04/2018 23:37

If the systems are showing that rooms x y z are swiped as 'in' and four people are booked into room x, the firefighters will go to room x, look for and if necessary, pull out 4 people. If you're all unconscious, who tells them that there should also be a toddler in the party to look for?

Small children's lungs are damaged much more quickly by smoke inhalation. Many fire deaths are down to suffocation through smoke inhalation.

Not a gamble I'd take, but then I've seen people dragged out of smoke logged buildings who were beyond any help.

Weezol · 07/04/2018 23:41

Above rant assumes the hotel aren't aware of the extra person. I shall now take my grumpy trousers off and go to bed. Sorry if I've been arsey, this kind of thing hits a nerve.

AnnieAnoniMouser · 07/04/2018 23:41

I’d do it and I wouldn’t ask, as many places will say no & make you book 2 rooms. Forgiveness is easier to get than permission.

AnnieAnoniMouser · 07/04/2018 23:45

At any given time there are more hotel guests than there are people booked in. No one tells reception about a ONS they’ve brought back or whatever. I book and pay for a double room for two people as it’s usually the same price, but you get more towels...I’m certainly not rocking up to reception to tell them whether there’s 1 or 2 people in the room overnight.

JaniceBattersby · 07/04/2018 23:48

Weezol that’s genuinely not how searching a hotel would work. If people are genuinely believed to be trapped in rooms, and there is evidence of that, then they will search the room thoroughly as they would any room and not just stop when they’ve pulled four people out of it.

Bluecube1 · 07/04/2018 23:49

@ janice maybe a vague reference to fire regs would seem more important in reality. if the hotel can't provide accurate guest numbers how do they know how many people need rescuing? As a firefighters wife I'm sure you are aware of the implications not least on insurance.

user1483992574 · 07/04/2018 23:51

I’ve done it for one night. My sister & 14 year old daughter in the double , I was in the single. Boys topped & tailed in the other single.

SweetMoon · 08/04/2018 00:00

I've done this as 3 kids can easily share a double and 2 in with me. Premier inn have never batted an eyelid at it on the odd occasion we've needed to stop for the night somewhere. I'm not sure they'd even rent me 2 rooms anyway if one would be occupied only by children, pretty sure they would be safer in with me all in one room.

I havent ever actually said there's 6 of us, I've just booked a family room and left it at that. However a woman with 5 kids is quite hard to miss wandering through reception so sure they must know.

Maryann1975 · 08/04/2018 00:10

I often wonder about this, but have never been brave enough to try it in case we get stopped and caught out and end up chucked out of the hotel.