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0 pointsTheOtherHobbes0y ago0 comments

The difference in costs between accommodating one person and two people is pretty minimal. Even things like breakfasts are prepared in bulk.

Most single people own and sleep in double beds, so there's no sense in which a double bed is "designed to accomodate" two travellers.

The issue is more that discounted single room rates would encourage unofficial double stays, which would lose significant income.

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tshaddox0y ago

I doubt the difference is minimal. Forget the size of beds, the point is that a hotel with 200 single-person rooms has twice the beds, twice the bathrooms, roughly twice the walls, etc. than a hotel with 100 two-person rooms.

chgs0y ago

A hotel hosting 100 single people will be roughly the same size and operating costs as a hotel hosting 100 couples, even if the rooms had a 3’ bed rather than a 6’ bed And thus could be 3’ smaller

tshaddox0y ago

Right, but the former hotel has half the capacity as the latter.

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tshaddox0y ago

chgs0y ago

tshaddox0y ago

Right, but the former hotel has half the capacity as the latter.

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