Does anybody know what would happen if I book a room for myself for a week (work purpose) and then my family x2 joins me a week later in the same hotel room.
Is this bad? If so what happens?
Work is sending me over to Osaka and my spouse and child will stay in Tokyo since we live here. But I told them that maybe it’ll be nice that they can come down to join me while I work and they can explore Osaka since it’ll be everybody’s first time. And I just remembered that this wasn’t US. You pay per person… but what happens in my situation? Does anyone know?
Thank you
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It’s ok to have two (or three!) in a room, but you should inform the hotel. They may charge a different price for double occupancy. Also they may upgrade you to a better room if you’re lucky haha.
You can let the hotel know that two others will be joining you so they can make adjustments if necessary. Just call them up to modify your reservation, it’s really a non-issue.
Certain rooms can only fit a certain amount of people so the room you have booked may not be suitable for 2 adults and 1 child but if it is or isn’t they’ll make adjustments if needed. There are rules about how many adults and how many children can fit per room type.
Hotels can request removal for any unauthorized guests especially if the guest exceeds room capacity.
Let the hotel know. As you said, you pay per person here. But this isn’t anything particularly strange, the hotel should be happy to work with you and let everything go smoothly.
MANY hotels in Japan charge by the PERSON not by the room, so yes you definitely should tell the hotel, or hope you don’t get caught and unpleasantly penalized.
We must by law have an exact list of people staying in the hotel in case of an evacuation.
Just let the front desk know there will be additional guests staying with you from X date, they will let you know if it incurs any additional cost （it probably will）.
Common sense, how would you react after renting your place to 1 person then you find out he was hosting 2 other people without letting you know?
The tl;dr is basically:
1. Hotels in Japan generally charge by the person, not the room
2. There are legal occupancy limits for fire/disaster reasons – single rooms can have 1 person max, doubles 2 (or 2 + child), etc…
3. A lot (if not most) of the Japanese chains all practice basic access control, which is why you’ll see the front desk is located right in front of the entrance
4. Western chains are considerably more relaxed about that (in the sense of bringing guests up, anyway. Not necessarily bringing people to stay).
So in this case you would have to reserve a room zoned for two adults + child.
One option might be to stay in a single for the first few days, then on the day your child/spouse arrives, move to a double.