is this allowed?

[nybom]

hi,

DH has booked a double room in a five star hotel for this weekend, but he didn't mention our children because he didn't want to book a suit which you'd normally get with 4 people...

now he's thinking of ways of me checking in without the children (as he'll join us in the evening) and then smuggling them in later when the reception is busy...

to save me all the fuss: does anyone know wether you HAVE to book a suite if there's four of you? please tell me there's a way round this and i can just check in "legally" with the children!

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it's less than 24 hours now, so too late to cancel (?). will ring DH and discuss options (not sure whether he has payed already or not).

we don't mind sleeping in different rooms, we do that at home anyway! though it will probably be me and the kids in one room and DH in the other (they tend to agglomerate around me ;-))...

Travelodge you can cancel until 2pm on the day of the booking - and you can get additional beds in room (we'll have 2yo and 4 yo with us).

Have you considered babysitting? reason I say this is that a friend of mine booked room in posh hotel for her, DH and 2yo, and they insisted that she had a (very expensive hotel CRB checked) babysitter while they ate downstairs in the restaurant (which was within baby alarm distance. Not saying this is right or wrong, but something that you might want to factor in.

checked with DH and we are still able to cancel hotel. still haven't solved transport problem. and i haven't a clue what hotel to chose instead. DH has kindly left it to me to find alternative hotel.

we'd like something central in london. around 100 pounds per day max.

and i tried ringing sitters for a babysitter (we're going out for a meal on friday) but no one is picking up the phone and they are not ringing back either.

this is slowly turning into one massive fuck up...

Why is the budget now 100 pounds per day when previously your dh was going to pay 370 extra just for the kids? What is the transport situation - are you going by train, if so, into which station?

annh - the 370 would be an extra double room (3 or 4 nights).

we're leaving car at cockforsters (suburb in the north).

DH is then spending the day at wimbledon in the vip area; but hotel doesn't have to be near there.

Tbh, you're going to struggle to fins somewhere half decent in London for four of you for £100 (sorry to be the voice of doom).

Unless you try Premier Inns or Jurys Inns, maybe.

You're going to have a real schlep on the tube from Cockfosters too.

Sorry, but your dh really hasn't thought this through has he?

Where were you staying before?

Did you know you can book Sitters on line now?

sitters website

Try Holiday Inn, we have two rooms booked there for the last week in July for £92 a night total. It's the one at South Wimbledon

www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/rates/lonch?ias=y&searchStartFrom=ebsmq&fromSearchResult=yes&start =11&viewHotelPackagesFlag=false

£94 per nighht

www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/rates/lonno?ias=y&searchStartFrom=ebsmq&fromSearchResult=yes&start =31&viewHotelPackagesFlag=false

and another...

Marriott...they have availability and are lovely

www.marriott.co.uk/reservation/rateListMenu.mi

thanks for the suggestions!!!

we usually park the car in cockforsters (yes, it is a lot to schlepp, but that's okay if there's two of you) and stay in st pancras youth hostel (king's cross).

DH likes to surprise me, so he didn't tell me we were staying in a PROPER hotel until yesterday. (even if he has a day off or so, he'l´l never tell me - he is such a child sometimes :-))

re sitters: it says you can only book online if the babysitters are to come to your place. if you want them to come to a hotel you need to ring up.

ilove you're an angel! i'll surely find something amongst those suggestions!

Marriots are LOVELY, rooms are HUGE

A friend of mine stayed at the Premier Inn at Kings X a month ago or so. It's quite new and they liked it.

Also try laterooms.com

lastminute.com?

Have you found anywhere?

Try marlin apartmetns - we had a two bedroom place with living space £150 per night
I used to work for Sitters and do 'hotel' jobs - all fine - just had to sit in the room with children in bed -/+ bathtime/food.

all the hotels mentioned were booked up, i spent a frantic evening on the internet searching all the price comparison sites... in the end we went to a hotel between the motorway and railway near edgeware (can't remember the name). it was okay, apart from the distance to the next railway station...

the first day, when DH was getting drunk on champagne in his sky box in wimbledon, i decided to walk to the station with the kids (to get some exercise (haha)). it took me 1,5 hours for 2,5 miles as i constantly got lost (despite having satnav in my hands). on the way back i got lost even more. i ended up having some shoes given to me by middleaged lady (i could't find a way across the blumming railway, despite the hotel only being 200yards away (beeline), i was wearing wedges.. ). another middle aged lady, her neighbour, ended up driving us back in her car...

another day, there was flooding on the tracks, and it took us 3,5 hours to get back to the hotel.

all in all, it was great though. and i lost 2 pounds (in weight)! :-)