Palour Rooms.....book 'em or skip 'em?
 

Visiting the first week in March.....looking for a decent (or nicer than decent!) hotel at a decent price.....both Loews &amp; Hilton (4 stars) have $99 &quot;parlour&quot; rooms with sofa beds.....anyone done this? <BR><BR>I'm just a bit worried about comfort on this type of bed.......but I would love to stay at one of these hotels.....we will be staying for seven nights.....<BR><BR>Is this a dumb idea? Anyone have a better suggestion?<BR><BR>Thanks in advance!

Kammie,<BR><BR>You don't tell us what city you are going to. <BR><BR>There are no &quot;State&quot; or &quot;City&quot; boards. All posts go to the US board. This is a common error caused by the way Fodors has the posting area laid out.<BR><BR>Need the city (probably New York).<BR><BR>Curious

Not sure why we need the city for this one. I have never, ever found a sofa bed as comfortable as a regular bed, and sometimes they were downright punishing. I suspect what's going on here is the following:<BR><BR>Many hotels have suites with one room with a normal bed and one room with a sofa and desk. For families, the sofa can be converted to a bed for kids who really can sleep on piles of books and not notice. These hotels are probably assuming they cannot rent the two-rooms suites because they are so pricey and families are not traveling (time of year, or midweek, or whatever), so they will lock the door between the two rooms and rent you the second room at a much reduced price.<BR><BR>Depends entirely on whether you can sleep on mattresses that may sag in the middle, have lumps or springs poking into you, or rise-and-fall over support bars in the framework.

I have been stuck in &quot;ParlourRooms&quot; before.The previous description is accurate.It is the living room(parlour) of a one/two bedroom suite.it can be sold as one-bedroom or two-bedroom suite or as simply a parlour.Many business travellers book the adjoining bedroom for the night,then the parlour for only the daytime for meetings etc.It is not something I would book inadvance.If you get to a hotel at midnight as I often do,and for whatevere reason the hotel is sold out except for a parlour,well I'd rather do that than go to another hotel.Bottom line--Skip!!

Thanks guys! You've helped me make my decision.....I guess since this will be a &quot;walking&quot; (Washington, DC) vacation, I need to make sure I have a nice, comfy bed to retire my sore feet and bones ;)<BR><BR>I will keep searching for that hot hotel deal!<BR><BR>Thanks!

I stayed at a parlour suite at the Hyatt Regency (I think) in Minneapolis and instead of a sofabed, they wheeled in a twin bed on rollers. It was quite comfortable. Housekeeping then wheeled it out in the morning (and brought it back at night). A bit of a pfaff, but more for them than me. Is that an option or are you stuck with a sofabed? If you have to take the sofabed, then no way. I have yet to sleep on any sofabed anywhere that was truly comfortable.