Child-Free by Choice

This post was resurrected and while I did not reply to it initially, I do have a question.  If cabins are reserved for handicapped travelers, why would a family with children even be able to reserve one?  Why wouldn't the family be told they would need to pay more for a larger cabin and leave it at that?

I was once given a hotel room equipped for someone in wheel chair and was actually very uncomfortable in it.  I called the minute I realized that the room was equipped in this way to tell the staff that I wished to be moved and they could not accommodate me until the next day.  The shower was especially inconvenient (it seemed to me it would have been even for someone in a wheelchair!), while it was very large, there was NO place to put soap or shampoo (no shelves at all), so I had to lug a heavy waste basket near the shower so I had a place to put the stuff I use in the shower...very frustrating for me, next to impossible for someone in a wheelchair.

I've reserved a handicap room in a hotel when my husband was on crutches with a broken leg. They just took my word that we needed it.

Like you I wouldn't stay in one unless I had to. The bathroom was basically one big shower stall with sink and toilet on one side and a showerhead and drain on the other. I don't remember other differences it had clearly. It was a help to my husband so that made it worthwhile.

I think it is really selfish for parents to expect those rooms just because they have kids. I can see them being on a waiting list if no one with a true need for one booked one, but they shouldn't be entitled to one simply because of it. And lying to get one is still lying. Way to be a role model to their kids. :P