hotel confusion

[darkoshi]

I'm looking at hotel room descriptions, and I don't understand the difference between these:

Room, 1 King Bed
360 square feet
(Extra beds available: Crib)
Room sleeps 4 guests (up to 3 children)

Room, 1 King Bed
360 square feet
(Extra beds available: Crib)
Room sleeps 2 guests (up to 1 child)


Neither description mentions there being a sofa bed.

I think the "up to x children" means that of the total people in the room, one of them must be an adult, and the rest can be children.


When reading the first description, I wondered if they were saying that the king bed is large enough to sleep 4 people? But then I saw the 2nd one, which also has a king bed, but only says it is for 2 people. So where do the other people sleep? Are only cribs available... so they mean the first room supports 2 adults and 2 children, but not 4 adults?

Is it not really based on the beds then, or the amount of space for cribs (as both have the same # of square feet), but rather based on the number of towels provided?

Or are the rooms identical, but it's just that they would charge a different amount, depending on the number of children?

Comments

[marahmarie]

Maybe the second room description contains a typo (specifically: "1 King bed"). My best guess is it should read "1 full size bed". Without any further description provided in the ad or actually calling them I suppose it's hard to say. Do the ads for each room provide any pictures? Beds photograph poorly so it's hard to tell if even the smallest beds are actually all that small, but maybe there's a square footage or layout difference that accounts for the discrepancy (though that would not be at all clear from simply reading the ad).

[darkoshi]

The photos were the same. I'm guessing the first room must have a pull-out sofa though, even though I didn't see that in the photo either.

[marahmarie]

Well, this is where the square footage and actual layout of the room might matter (I hadn't assumed either had a sofa, so never thought of that!). If the sofa in one is a pull-out there has to enough room to unfold it and still be able to walk through the room/not have the pull-out bump against other furniture. If the rooms look "exactly the same" and square footage can be assumed from that (or if it's already known or listed) then unless the room is clearly spacious enough to handle it, it might not have the pull-out sofa.

But I don't know, come to think of it, if hotels routinely (or ever) list any room's square footage (I think really, really upscale hotels do this but not sure about less pricey ones). Considering people of various ages, genders, relationships and so on will often need to share a room, perhaps they all should.

Oh actually (edit) you do list the square footage right there *slaps head*. So if the rooms look spacious enough....but yeah, no, 360 square feet is some tiny tiny room. So I'd highly doubt the pull-out sofa in that case, but you can still always call and check.

Huh (edit again)...just brushed up on converting square feet to linear feet - which is actually not possible without knowing the width of the room beforehand, from what I gather) that might not be so small, after all (potentially it's say 20 feet by 36 feet, though whether a pull-out would fit would still be determined by where other furniture is).

At least from now on I'll hesitate before assuming any stated square footage is actually all that small. Gah.

[darkoshi]

Yeah, I think 360 sq.ft. is actually pretty big. It's a moot point now anyway. But at least I see that I'm not the only one who can't figure out what they mean by those descriptions.