Morticia
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Absolutely agree about the pushing the limits on number of guests in the room. The latest was yesterday...couple with 3 kids wanted one room. Finally said he would go to a hotel where they don't count the number of guests.Think carefully about your market and why people are coming to stay with you. I think from many of the experiences posted previously here by innkeepers with multiple beds in rooms that they have discovered it fosters guests attempting to push the occupancy limits in those rooms, which can lead to problems. You need to have your max occupancy policy clearly stated for each room and be willing to enforce it.
We have a mixture of types of rooms here and it's worked out very well. We have a fairly large room with 2 Queen beds and it's our least booked room and it's a really pretty room. But, it's worked for couples wanting separate beds, ladies traveling together, and infrequently for a third person. Our most popular room has a King sized bed and can also be part of a 2 bedroom suite. We have a fair number of folks that will go for our very large suite with a full sized sleep sofa in the living room for extra guests. I have found for our location, it is RARE that folks want to have a third person right in the same room with them. They like the privacy of a separate room in a suite arrangement for an additional guest(s). Our rooms are fairly large, too. Just my 2 cents.....
We generally get that at least once/month. 5 guests in the room that holds 4, 3 in a room for 2, 4 in a room for 2. It's always people with kids. And they always say the kids will either sleep on the floor or they'll all pile into the one bed.
If this place caters to families, they definitley need to figure out how they will fit everyone in. Lately, every family has had 3 kids. I have the suite for that but not a single one of them wants to pay for the kids. They want the suite, but they want it for the price of the single room.
What guests do not understand is that I don't really care if their kids sleep on the floor or in the chair or all in the bed together, I care about the guest in the room next to them or under them who has to listen to the toilet flush a hundred times or the shower running for hours. Not to mention the 'noise' that 5 people in one bedroom can make.