About Trips That Fit
Trips That Fit researches how hotel rooms and apartments actually work for families who don’t fit neatly into a standard double.
Why this exists
Most hotel rooms in Europe are built for two people. Occupancy limits are set by fire regulations rather than by how many people could physically sleep there, and many European hotels price per person rather than per room. The practical result is that the fifth traveller in a family often forces a second room — and that decision is made on a booking screen that was never designed to help you make it.
The information you need to make that call is scattered across individual room pages, written inconsistently, and often not published at all. We collect it, structure it, and show it in one place.
What “fit” means here
Fit is not just whether a room is allowed to hold your family. It is whether the arrangement works: whether everyone has somewhere proper to sleep, whether parents get a sleeping area of their own, whether a teenager ends up on a sofa, and whether the space matches the number of people in it.
How we research
We read each property’s own published room information, record what it says with a source link and a verification date, and leave anything unpublished marked as unknown. We currently have 25 properties researched this way. That is a deliberate starting point rather than a complete database, and it will grow. The methodology page sets out exactly what we read and what we derive.
Hotel information versus our analysis
We keep these separate everywhere on the site. What a property publishes — “6 persons maximum”, “one double bed and two single beds” — is quoted as theirs. What we work out from it — that four of five travellers get a fixed bed, that parents have a separate bedroom — is ours, and we show the reasoning.
Things change
Room configurations, occupancy rules and child policies change, and availability changes daily. Everything here is a research summary as of the date shown on each card. Always confirm the final details with the property or your booking provider before you book.
Where this is going
We’re starting with stays because that is where the problem bites hardest. Longer term, Trips That Fit is being built to help across the whole trip — including what a family actually does once it arrives. We would rather do one thing properly first.
Internally we call the comparison engine RoomFit: given a family, work out every valid way to house them and compare one unit against two. That needs licensed live supplier data. It is in development and it is not live on this site today.