In article <45f71d47$0$27246$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
SMS wrote:
>Lie is such a harsh word. I've never had a hotel ask how many
>guests, or check. I just rented a room last month in Calgary, and
>the on-line system said two people for a suite, and I called the
>hotel to ask about this since we had four people. They had no idea
>what I was talking about or why I was asking. I left it at that,
>figuring the web site was just advising on how many people would
>fit, but not limiting the number of people. Bring some extra towels.
Some places do care. Some do not. In some cases, even when the
hotels do not actually care, there are still local ordinances
prescribing per-bed occupancy in hotel rooms. Websites/discount
sources never know the answers to these questions, and if you call
the hotel directly, they are likely to ask for rack rate. Likewise,
websites (those that I know, anyway) have no idea whether rooms
connect or not.
I run into this sort of thing all the time, because I have a family
of 5, and the standard hotel room says 4 people. As long as the
hotel's stated policy is that kids stay free, I don't much worry
about it. What with the added difficulty of even researching whether
particular places have connecting rooms available, I rarely feel
like getting two rooms just to satisfy what a website says. And
sometimes when I have thought I had reserved connecting rooms, I
ended up not getting them.
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