Hotel - substantial extra cost for toddler

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AIBU thinking this situation is quite unreasonable?

Looking for a b&b for a long weekend in Wales, just a random weekend in Oct, so not school/holidays or 'peak' time.

2 people B&B in a double - £95
2 people B&B in a triple (double bed & single) £115
But if you want to use that extra single bed for a toddler, it's an extra £30pp extra per night. Same fee for baby/toddler or adult.

Queried it as it's already costing £20 more for the larger room, so seemed weird to me to charge more for a Family room then charge more again to actually use the beds, and they've said it's correct as it "covers the bedding, towels, shower and breakfast and labour for the extra bed to be made up."

But surely they're only doing the making up and washing of things once as they're not stripping and changing the beds every day?! And I wouldn't want them to! And if it's only 2 people in there, do they not still have to make up both beds? Might be 2 friends sharing who sleep separately surely?!

Just think it makes it feel quite extortionate when you think what a 2 year old eats and uses... Feel like it would make more sense to have that as a 'one-off' cost for the stay, and then add on a daily charge for breakfast if needed?

Looks a lovely B&B, and really good reviews, so is it just me being tight?!

I agree with you OP, you either charge more for the “family” room, which is understandable. Or you charge for a double room and then charge extra if the single bed also wants to be used. I would book elsewhere as I’d be concerned there were extra charges to come.

It's more like this.

A standard burger (room) is £8.
A double burger (room) is £10.
A double burger plus an added side (room plus extra guest) is £12.

You're paying a surcharge for the extra space and another one to have an extra person there too.

I don't really see the issue.

The calculation formula is quite normal for the booking page, it allows to automatically sell any combination of room size and occupancy. Full price is known before booking.

You can decide that a place which charges 2 yo as adult isn't best value for you just now.

You can ask whether a toddler really counts as an occupant, maybe they just didn't think about it when setting the system.

I agree with you that it seems a weird way to structure the pricing. Just charge a price per room.

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I stopped staying at a hotel I used to go to quite a lot when they charged me full adult price for my breastfeeding unweaned co-sleeping 5 mo old. Now we stay in AirBnBs, which is better anyway as we get living space and cooking facilities. Much more flexible.