Adjoining rooms don’t actually join. – “Adjoining” means adjacent, or next to one another, not connecting. This is one of the most popular requests from my clients, especially when they are traveling with young children. In general, hotels will not guarantee room requests like this in advance, though there are a few that will guarantee connecting rooms for a fee. I have a very high success rate of acquiring guaranteed connecting rooms for my clients at Virtuoso properties and other luxury hotels, because of our agency’s great relationship with them.
The Goring Hotel, London |
Time for my beauty sleep |
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa |
Double has double meaning. – A “double” room can mean either that it sleeps two people (in one or two beds), or it has two beds in the room and can sleep up to four. Nor does it indicate what size the beds are. Whether a room has a double, full, queen, or king size bed is very important to many travelers, but this can be one of the most frustrating pieces of information to obtain. I don’t rely on website room descriptions to tell me everything I need to know, I talk to my contacts to find out exactly what my client can expect in their room, and ask them to guarantee their bedding request.
Ritz Carlton Lake Tahoe |
And my personal pet peeve:
Suites are not always as sweet as you think. – When clients tell me they want a suite, they usually mean they want a private bedroom, with a door separating the sleeping and living areas. But this is not necessarily what you get when you book a “suite” through a website. Hotels frequently use this term to refer to an oversize room with a seating area, what I would call a “junior suite.” I check floor plans or ask my contacts at the hotel to make sure I my client is getting exactly what they want.
Four Seasons Las Vegas |
Instead of wasting your time trying to navigate through confusing, and possibly misleading, information on the internet, give me a call to help plan your next family vacation. If I don’t have accurate information at my fingertips, I know exactly where to get it. You deserve to have your vacation dreams come true.
Nice list! I travel a lot and didn;t even fully understand some of these!
There are certainly a lot of confusing terms when it comes to travel. I know double beds get people all of the time in Europe thinking that they are getting one bed and not two twins pushed together.