On Mar 13, 3:37 pm, edrobert...@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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
We only have 3 kids but when on military moves we booked adjoining
rooms and we stayed in one, the kids in the other. That saved our
sanity, especially when we were stuck for 3 weeks in a hotel waiting
for a house.
OTOH, I vividly remember travelling with my parents and we kids slept
on the motel floors, in sleeping bags.
Some hotels may not care how many are in one room but many do and
charge a basic rate for 2 people then anywhere from $5 to $20 per
extra person.
Gabby
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