I'm trying to find a good solution to finding places to stay on a
family road trip. We have six children under the age of 12, but in
most of the small and medium-small cities we are traveling through,
there are apparently no hotels that can accommodate more than two
adults and four children in a room, even the ones with so-called
"family suites".
We're left with several solutions, none of them satisfactory:
1. Stay at home. Grandparents too feeble to travel need to see their
grandchildren, and we need a vacation once in a while.
2. Lie to the hotel and say we have only four children, then bring
them in through the side door. Usually these suites have two double
beds or larger, plus a sofabed, which is fine for a one-night stay.
3. Book an additional room and run back and forth between the suite
and the room. Makes the vacation more stressful and less like a
vacation. Plus our budget is not unlimited. I would be happy to pay a
little more for a bigger suite, but not to separate our family.
4. Fly. Also out of our budget.
5. Stay in a tent. We'll try that in the summer, but not this time of
year. (Can't postpone our trip because we are going to a close
relative's wedding.)
6. Drive continuously without any overnight stays. (It takes more than
one day to get to the grandparents.) We do have two drivers. Refer
back to "less like a vacation".
So what do other families typically do? Right now we're going with
option 2. What are the possible consequences? Will we be unable to
evacuate if the hotel catches fire?
Ed
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