Hotel reservations with 2 young children

We will be traveling to various cities with 2 children - 1 and 3 years
old. Some hotels (like IBIS) seem to allow only one child per room.
Novotel allows two children under the age of 16, but are quite a bit
more expensive. I called Best Western, and while they seem to have
lots of properties all over Europe, they had a really hard time
finding any that would allow two children. They suggested I call the
hotels directly to find out their policy on children.

Is this really enforced for children so young? Any suggestions for
budget (room with attached bathroom, 2-star, I would guess) hotels
that permit 2 children to share a room with the parents? The cities we
are looking at include Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin,
Luxembourg, Vienna, Innsbruck and Zurich.

Thx,

Atri

"Atri I" wrote in message
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We will be traveling to various cities with 2 children - 1 and 3 years
old. Some hotels (like IBIS) seem to allow only one child per room.
Novotel allows two children under the age of 16, but are quite a bit
more expensive. I called Best Western, and while they seem to have
lots of properties all over Europe, they had a really hard time
finding any that would allow two children. They suggested I call the
hotels directly to find out their policy on children.

Is this really enforced for children so young? Any suggestions for
budget (room with attached bathroom, 2-star, I would guess) hotels
that permit 2 children to share a room with the parents? The cities we
are looking at include Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin,
Luxembourg, Vienna, Innsbruck and Zurich.

Travelodge will allow two children.

"Atri I" wrote in message
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We will be traveling to various cities with 2 children - 1 and 3 years
old. Some hotels (like IBIS) seem to allow only one child per room.
Novotel allows two children under the age of 16, but are quite a bit
more expensive. I called Best Western, and while they seem to have
lots of properties all over Europe, they had a really hard time
finding any that would allow two children. They suggested I call the
hotels directly to find out their policy on children.

Is this really enforced for children so young? Any suggestions for
budget (room with attached bathroom, 2-star, I would guess) hotels
that permit 2 children to share a room with the parents? The cities we
are looking at include Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin,
Luxembourg, Vienna, Innsbruck and Zurich.

It is to do with size of average bedrooms in Europe. Compared to the US,
they are much smaller and many rooms just don't have enough space to put in
two extra beds (or a bed and a cot/crib). Most hotels have 'family' rooms
that have extra bed(s) already in place, and usually cost only a little more
than a double/twin. Of chain hotels, Holiday Inn and Novotel usually allow
(and have room for) two children/teenagers, while cheaper chains like Ibis
and Campanile only have space for one extra bed. Also the pricing policy in
parts of Europe is per person rather than per room, with a discount (varying
amount) for children, esp in UK and Germanic countries.
I suggest writing to or accessing the website of tourist office in each city
and find details of hotels with family rooms.

Alec

We stayed in a Campanile hotel in France a couple of times in June (one day
on the way out and one on the way back) These both had 2 extra beds (one was
under the main bed and one was under the shelf in the window) so we could
have had 2 kids in them. As it was our 1 year old still sleeps in a cot so
we took our travel cot.

Only problems we

1. No where to put things like the kettle and tea and coffee bits when the
window bed was in use.

2. Very little floor space when both kids were asleep.

3. We _never_ get a decent (or anything like it) nights sleep with the kids
in the room. Probably due in part to the fact they've been in the car and so
are not tired, and it's all very exciting etc.

4. The particular hotel in which we stayed (Vire) wasn't all that great for
several; reasons.

HTH

Rob

"Atri I" wrote in message
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We will be traveling to various cities with 2 children - 1 and 3 years
old. Some hotels (like IBIS) seem to allow only one child per room.
Novotel allows two children under the age of 16, but are quite a bit
more expensive. I called Best Western, and while they seem to have
lots of properties all over Europe, they had a really hard time
finding any that would allow two children. They suggested I call the
hotels directly to find out their policy on children.

Is this really enforced for children so young? Any suggestions for
budget (room with attached bathroom, 2-star, I would guess) hotels
that permit 2 children to share a room with the parents? The cities we
are looking at include Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin,
Luxembourg, Vienna, Innsbruck and Zurich.

Thx,

Atri

"Atri I" wrote in message
om...
We will be traveling to various cities with 2 children - 1 and 3 years
old. Some hotels (like IBIS) seem to allow only one child per room.
Novotel allows two children under the age of 16, but are quite a bit
more expensive. I called Best Western, and while they seem to have
lots of properties all over Europe, they had a really hard time
finding any that would allow two children. They suggested I call the
hotels directly to find out their policy on children.


Best Western is a network of individually owned Hotels
and as such there is no universal policy

Keith

formule 1 comes to mind.

they don't care at all.

Atri I wrote:

We will be traveling to various cities with 2 children - 1 and 3 years
old. Some hotels (like IBIS) seem to allow only one child per room.
Novotel allows two children under the age of 16, but are quite a bit
more expensive. I called Best Western, and while they seem to have
lots of properties all over Europe, they had a really hard time
finding any that would allow two children. They suggested I call the
hotels directly to find out their policy on children.

Is this really enforced for children so young? Any suggestions for
budget (room with attached bathroom, 2-star, I would guess) hotels
that permit 2 children to share a room with the parents? The cities we
are looking at include Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin,
Luxembourg, Vienna, Innsbruck and Zurich.

Thx,

Atri

--
"Disperse, you rebels -- Damn you, throw down your arms and disperse!"
Maj. John Pitcairn (British Army), Lexington, Mass., April 19, 1775

"Atri I" wrote in message
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Is this really enforced for children so young? Any suggestions for
budget (room with attached bathroom, 2-star, I would guess) hotels
that permit 2 children to share a room with the parents? The cities we
are looking at include Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin,
Luxembourg, Vienna, Innsbruck and Zurich.

If you cut down your number of stops and increased your time in each
location, you could rent an apartment, conceivably for about the same cost.
A centally located one or two bedroom apartment would be much more
comfortable for all of you. And less traveling would also be easier on all
of you.

Marianne