When to count children as guests?
While searching for hotels, the major sites such as Expedia, explicitly as the number of adults and children, including their age or age-range, but many minor sites just as for number of guests. Does this usually exclude or include children? If not always, at what age should children be included?
Often, if including the children, the rooms on offer are significantly larger than needed which obviously increased costs and, more crucially, reduces the availability (sometimes with Max Adults Exceeded as reason).
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The rule of thumb is that children count as soon as they need their own beds. Baby sleeping in same bed or in a cot? Doesn't count. Preschooler in a rollaway bed? Counts.
Obviously there is wide variation on this on a country, state, city and hotel policy level. In particular, as far as fire codes are concerned, a person is usually a person regardless of size, so a room with a maximum occupancy of three is a room for three, period, even if the hotel doesn't charge you extra for an infant. The best approach is to call the hotel and ask, they're often more lenient in practice than the booking site would indicate.
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Are kids included in the guest count?
Children are sometimes a little more flexible. Generally, if it is an infant or small child will not be included in the guest count if they will be sitting in a parents lap. However, if the child will sit and eat on his or her own, they will be counted.What age counts as a guest at a wedding?
Any child over the age of 18 is considered an adult, and as such they would receive their own invitation, even if they live at home with their parents. Any child under the age of 18 would be included in the invitation to the parent/parents.Ellen and Steve Harvey Talk to Kids
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