"Todd Michel McComb" wrote in message
news:et7fet$1qq7$1@agricola.medieval.org...
> 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.
>
It is nice to be able to tell the fire dept. how many people to look for in
the event of a late night emergency.
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