Rooming Option Lesson Learned

When we book a hotel for our retreat, there are often two queen-sized beds in each room.  In order to bring the price down for the ladies, we offer a “four-to-a-room” option, which means that two ladies would need to share a bed.  This could be a difficult situation for ladies who don’t know one another well.  So we adapted over the years, and we now require that a woman who wants the lower-priced option must designate one roommate on the registration card (the one with whom she will share a bed).  This way, both ladies sign up knowing with whom they will be sharing the bed, and thus prevents the awkwardness of  sharing a bed with a stranger.  It is best if these ladies sign up together, each designating the other as their roommate, to avoid the possibility of designating a roommate who never actually registers for the retreat (and believe me, that has happened!)