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

[Rainer]

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?

Some bonkers comments on here. I'm genuinely taken aback there are people on here who think that in a serious emergency where rooms are burning and lives are at risk the firefighters are running around with a manifesto in their hands to check Off how many people could be in any given room.

Clearly they search each room thoroughly and they don't run around with a manifesto telling them how many folks in each room.

I can't decide if it's a reflection of low intelligence levels or being a total bastard and deliberately trying to make the op spend a lot more money than she needs to. 🤔

How is saying pay for the amount of people using the facilities paying more than they should?

If you pay for train tickets do you pay for 4 and make the 5th person sit on someone’s knee? Same with the cinema?

Booking for four people but sneaking an extra person in sounds a bit like fraud to me.

I probably wouldn't do it because I have autism and find it hard to break rules. I'd try phoning ahead to see if could be arranged.

*@RedForFilth *

I think if you don't want the expense of a family of five then you shouldn't have had a family of 5. Won't be a popular opinion though. I'm from a family of 5 and my parents lived within their means for a family of 5.*

FFS, over the top or what!!!

Should they consider adoption of one of the children? Massive difference of not being able to afford and not wanting to waste money on a room that won't be used!

What if the computer itself was burning and the printer couldnt print that list?

I doubt they would print out a list of hundreds of guests while evacuating a burning building.

Maybe they could contact the hotels main servers and get them to email it to the fire service iPad.

It literally makes no sense that they would get an actual list until the fire was under control.

Come on, next some of you will be saying that paramedics don't need a 'Baby on Board' sign to fully check a vehicle after a car accident...

Should they consider adoption of one of the children? Massive difference of not being able to afford and not wanting to waste money on a room that won't be used!

Don't be so fucking ridiculous, they should pay the required amount for the number of guests in the party just like everybody else does. It isn't just about the bed, it's about towels, wear and tear, bathing/showering/washing/bog flushes, power usage blah blah blah. Christ, you sound entitled.

It’s not about cost though.

It’s the fact that they want to be together in one room. Not split the adults and children.

Which family would want to do that with young kids!

Teenagers are different.

What about those single people who book a hotel room and then get lucky and bring someone back? Are they expected to declare their visitor at reception as I would imagine most don’t!

Don't be so fucking ridiculous, they should pay the required amount for the number of guests in the party just like everybody else does. It isn't just about the bed, it's about towels, wear and tear, bathing/showering/washing/bog flushes, power usage blah blah blah. Christ, you sound entitled.

Please refrain from swearing you low life!

Jobjobjob Love you too hunni

@SpitefulMidLifeAnimal you're strange! Enjoy life hun.

Jobjobjob when did I say they should put a kid up for adoption?! It's just sensible to think about lifestyle etc before having more children. Obviously too late for it now but they still need to deal with their choice. If the policy is no more than 4 to a room then thats just the way it is!

Please refrain from swearing you low life! one of the funniest things I've read on MN today

Love the wear and tear theories. Because whenever we've 'over occupied' a room my 3 and 4 year old have had a piddle in the toilet and brushed their teeth in the sink. And shared a bed already in use. Yep totally adding to the wear and tear of the room.

Of course I did ask them to refrain from munching on the furniture punching holes in the walls and all that

The fire thing is bollocks. People pick up sex partners all the time and people sharing obviously only use one key to get in whether both came back or not.

Sweetmoon - so therefore you should sneak a child in because they have only brushed their teeeth and had a wee? I am a business. I want to make a living. I have the costs down to a penny about what each room costs.... and I charge for kids. If you ignore that and sneak a kid in it is theft. Simple. And children are sticky, and do touch the walls and mess up windows in a way adults just don’t. And rooms with kids in take far longer to service than those without. Fact. I have the stats to prove it.

Just tell them you're five and they'll be fine about it. We do it all the time.

This thread seemed to go a little crazy quickly!! We are a family of 5, children are 6 4 and 2. We recently stayed in a hotel where the rooms were 2+2. I emailed the hotel explained the situation and they replied that as long as we didn't mind sharing beds it was fine with them. Just give them a quick email or call op

The fire thing makes absolutely no sense.

I stayed in a hotel last weekend. Had my own room booked for the Saturday night but was on a group booking for Friday and Saturday. Everyone was going from room to room when getting ready to borrow eyelash glue, scissors, straighteners etc.
At the end of both nights, people went back at different times and accessed rooms at different times. There was no “signing out”.

Your key card opens your door and maybe activates your lights. I had one key card in my lights and the other with me for getting in. A lot of the girls sharing rooms did something similar where they’d leave a key in the lights (registering someone/everyone there?) and then take one or two cards out.

Personally we've only done it in places like premier inn or travelodge

Wow, I could either email the hotel or adopt a child out. Hmm. the don't have children that you can't afford argument is just ridiculous. You could be in the best financial position ever when you made the decision to add to your family but life can change. Likewise you may be In financial mess when you have the baby but be golden a year or two later. Life doesn't work according to finance.

I have managed to book for my children ten days holiday in August. Yes I have had to count the pennies somewhat to do so and have chosen a eurocamp type resort and am travelling to get the cheapest flights.

I could pay £300 for eleven days parking and a nights hotel in two rooms, or I could pay £145 for the same eleven days parking and one extra room which as we need to leave at 4am is going to get very little wear and tear.

I wouldn't consider this for a small business. But this is an airport stop over at a national chain where we probably won't have four let alone five showers between us and will be long gone before any kind of breakfast is on offer (4am) and so will be forking out for this at the airport.

Also wrt to cleaning costs when we checked out of our last hotel I got the kids to check under the bed before we left as we were packing and tidying. They found a fag packet. So we actually helped with the cleaning last time as we don't smoke.

I will try an off the spec email without giving my details and see what kind of response I get. I don't want anything extra, just a duvet and a few pillows and a couple of beds.

Sorry. 300 for two rooms and eleven days parking or 145 for one room and eleven days parking. My issue is paying more than double for an extra room and no extra parking!