I has a private room, I put it on birthing plan (at the top!) and said we were willing to pay, and vacate if necessary, and mentioned it when going through things with the midwife early doors between contractions, and again afterwards during all the, ahem, tidying up. DS was delivered just after midnight and we were in for a further 2 nights. It was about £60/night in my area. As was, we had lots of trouble establishing feeding and I was pleased that mine and DS's crying wasn't disturbing others on the ward too much.
BUT, it wasn't that quiet, we were by the midwife/nurses station as well as hearing everyone else's calls, my buzzer kept setting itself off every time I used the (blessedly private) bathroom. Contrary to many of these posts, I was very much included on the meal & tea runs and regularly checked in/handed over between midwife shifts, visits from cleaners etc meant I don't think I was alone for an hour during the day and I found it hard to rest. I also only once had a bad experience ringing buzzer when DS was going mental and I was trying latch him, when a nurse like a fridge was obviously upset to have been disturbed from her seat, blazed in, knocked everything out of the way of my bed (table, buzzer, book, phone etc), jammed him on my boob and marched out, leaving the door open. Otherwise, all the staff were lovely.
Interestingly, I was told they send an invoice after the event and DS is now 14wks old... one still hasn't arrived.