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Chicago Hotels With Connecting Rooms, and the One That Actually Sells Them

Thirteen Chicago hotels were checked in September 2026 against one question: can a family buy two connecting rooms, or can it only ask for them? Five publish that connecting or adjoining rooms exist. One sells them as a named product with its own price and its own booking code. Another charges a fifty dollar fee for the request and still calls it a request. Everything below comes from the operator's own website or a government body, and nothing from a booking site.

Best for a family of four: Hotel Felix Chicago

By Emma18 min readPublished Rooms checked September 2026
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The Chicago lakefront skyline seen across Lake Michigan from the North Avenue Beach pier on a clear day
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In Brief

Can you actually book connecting rooms in Chicago?

At one hotel out of thirteen, yes. Hotel Felix in River North sells connected pairs and trios as ordinary room types, each with its own page, its own published occupancy and floor area and its own booking code, and none of those pages carries an availability hedge. Its Three Bedroom Suite is published as sleeping eight. Everywhere else that admits connecting rooms exist, they are a request: the Sofitel charges a fifty dollar connecting room fee and still describes the outcome as a request added after booking, and the Congress Plaza states that special requests cannot be guaranteed and are judged at check-in rather than at booking.

Key takeaways

  • 5 of 13 publish that connecting rooms exist, 1 sells them
  • One hotel charges 50 dollars for the request itself
  • Only 2 of 13 publish a cot or rollaway price
  • Parking runs 45 to 94 dollars a night, valet only at five

Which rooms actually fit your family

Find your party shape along the top, then read down. A tick means the hotel publishes a room that holds that group in one booking. A dash means the hotel does not publish the fact at all, which is not the same as a no, and is why the column exists.

Room configurations by family size for 12 hotels in Chicago
Hotel2+12+22+32 + babyConnectingCotRollaway
Hotel Felix ChicagoYesYesYesNot publishedYesNot published. The words crib and cot appear on none of the seven room pages, the policies page or the FAQNot published, and no fire-code refusal is published either. The hotel simply does not address it
The Congress Plaza Hotel and Convention CenterYesYesYesNot publishedNoNot published, on the most detailed policy page of any hotel here, which is itself the finding20 dollars per night, published as a rollaway bed fee. One of only two rollaway or cot prices found in Chicago
Sofitel Chicago Magnificent MileYesYesNoYesNoFree on request, published as complimentary baby essentials including a crib and a bottle warmer. One of only two cot positions published in ChicagoNot published, and no code-based refusal is published either. The hotel's answer to a bigger family is a second room
Fairmont Chicago, Millennium ParkYesYesNot publishedYesNoAvailable and unpriced, published twice, as a room amenity line and in the guest services family listAvailable and unpriced, published in the same two places
Kinzie HotelNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNoNot published. Crib and cot appear nowhere on the rooms pages or in the eight-question FAQNot published as a service. The only extra sleeping surfaces are built in, a pull-out sofa in the corner king and the one-bedroom suite
Chicago Athletic AssociationYesYesYesNot publishedNot publishedNot published. Crib and cot appear nowhere on the accommodations page or the FAQNot published, and no code-based refusal either. A stated absence rather than a stated negative
Hotel EMC2, Autograph CollectionYesYesNoNot publishedNoNot published. The FAQ runs to five questions and none concerns childrenNot published, with no code-based reason given
Viceroy ChicagoNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot published. Crib and cot return nothing across a FAQ of more than twenty questionsNot published, with no code-based refusal. The only extra sleeping surfaces are built in
Warwick Allerton, ChicagoNot publishedNot publishedNoNot publishedNoNot published as a guest-room service. The word cot appears exactly once on the FAQ and it is inside an unrelated listNot published. Rollaway, roll-away and extra bed all return nothing, with no code-based refusal given
Freehand ChicagoYesYesNoNot publishedNoNot published. Crib and cot return nothing across a FAQ of roughly twenty questions that covers dog weight limitsNot published, with no code-based refusal
Hotel Chicago West LoopYesNoNoNot publishedNoNot published across the rooms page, the FAQ and the guest amenities pageNot published, with no code-based refusal
Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago Downtown Magnificent MileNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot establishedNot established

Eight of thirteen publish a maximum occupancy for at least one room type, but one of those eight prints a 25 person capacity on a two-king suite, which cannot be a sleeping figure, so the honest count of hotels publishing a real sleeping maximum is seven. Two publish a cot or rollaway price and eleven publish nothing on extra beds at all. The absence worth stating is a specific one: a deliberate hunt for a fire-code or building-code refusal of a rollaway, which four earlier cities in this build produced, found none at any of the thirteen. That is a stated negative rather than a gap. The other structural finding is the mirror image of Chicago's supposed hierarchy. Suites sleeping fewer people than a cheaper room below them appeared at four properties: an 867 square foot suite at a capacity of two against a 300 square foot double at four, a suite from 254 dollars at two against a double from 109 dollars at four, and one hotel whose Petite Suite is the smallest and cheapest room in the building. The one property that escapes the pattern entirely is the one that sells the connecting product, where occupancy rises with size all the way from 200 square feet sleeping two to 690 square feet sleeping eight.

These are family facts, and family facts go stale. This table is set for re-verification in March 2027.

Which one fits how your family travels

Find the row that sounds like your trip. Every pick below names the family it is wrong for, so you can book on fit rather than on rank.

If you areBookWhy
Certain you need two rooms with a door between themHotel Felix ChicagoIt is the only hotel in this research that sells the connection as a product rather than a request, with a published occupancy, a square footage and a booking code on each of four connected room types, and no availability hedge anywhere on those pages.
A family of five or six on a budgetThe Congress Plaza HotelTwo published routes to five and six people, a Family Suite at six adults or a Standard Double at four plus a rollaway at 20 dollars, and a site-wide statement that it charges no resort fee. Read the connecting-room wording first.
Travelling with a babySofitel Chicago Magnificent MileIt is one of only two hotels here publishing a cot position at all, and the only one publishing it as complimentary, with a bottle warmer alongside it.
Comparing on published numbersHotel EMC2 or the Chicago Athletic AssociationThese two publish occupancy, bed configuration and size together, which most of this list does not. EMC2 stops at four people and the Athletic Association reaches six in one suite.
Driving into the cityHotel Chicago West LoopValet at 45 dollars is the cheapest published overnight parking here by 17 dollars, in a city where the highest is 94. The catch is that nothing at the hotel sleeps more than three.
Flights to ChicagoCompare airlines and dates

What the bands mean

Parking is the number that decides a Chicago family budget and it runs from 45 to 94 dollars a night, with valet the only option at five of these hotels. On top of it sits a mandatory nightly fee at five properties, from 27 to 31.96 dollars, and one hotel varies that fee by room type so the family room carries the highest one, which nothing else here does. Two properties publish, in their own site-wide wording, that they charge no such fee at all. On tax, no government body publishes a combined Chicago figure, so this page carries the six levies separately: 4.5 per cent City of Chicago, a 1.5 per cent Tourism Improvement District charge effective 1 May 2026 for hotels of 100 rooms or more in the downtown ZIP codes, 1 per cent Cook County, and three state levies charged on reduced bases of 94, 98 and 99 per cent. Summing the headline rates would overstate the bill, which is why no total appears here.

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The 12 hotels, and the room to ask for at each

Walking times are to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in. Every area name on this page is the neighbourhood the operator itself publishes in its own address, not a district assigned by us. Occupancy, bed configuration and square footage are quoted only where the operator prints them, and where a hotel prints one of the three and not the others, that is stated rather than filled in.

  • River North

    Hotel Felix Chicago

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    Rated 4.2 out of 5 on Google Maps from 3,381 reviews, as of October 2026
    Best for four

    The only hotel in this research that sells the door. Connected pairs and trios are named room types with their own prices and booking codes.

    Room to book
    The Three Bedroom Suite, published as sleeping eight in 690 square feet across a king, two doubles and a queen
    Children stay free
    Not published. The only published age rule is that the lead guest must be 21
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    River North, by the operator's own address to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family of six or eight who want a door between the bedrooms and a price they can see.
    Wrong for
    Anyone who needs floor space rather than bed count.
    The catch
    The rooms behind the good product are small. The Two Bedroom Suite that sleeps six is 435 square feet in total, less floor area than a single junior suite elsewhere in this research that sleeps only two. A family of six gets a door and three beds, not space, and the hotel publishes two different daily fees on two of its own pages, both of which are recorded here rather than reconciled.
  • South Loop

    The Congress Plaza Hotel and Convention Center

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    More connecting stock than most and the flattest published refusal to promise it, alongside one of only two rollaway prices in the city.

    Room to book
    The Family Suite, published at six adults, or a Standard Double at four with a rollaway added
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    South Loop, facing Grant Park on South Michigan Avenue to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family of five or six wanting a published price and a park across the road.
    Wrong for
    Anyone who needs the connecting door confirmed before they travel.
    The catch
    The connecting rooms exist here in numbers and the hotel still will not promise them: they are subject to availability, requested by telephone after booking, and judged at check-in rather than at booking. Self-parking is 62 dollars a night and the hotel states explicitly that there is no in-and-out.
  • Gold Coast

    Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile

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    Charges a named fifty dollar fee for a connecting room and still calls the outcome a request, in the same sentence.

    Room to book
    A Superior Double, on two full beds
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Gold Coast, off the Magnificent Mile to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family of four with a baby, who value a free cot and a bottle warmer.
    Wrong for
    A family of five hoping the fee buys them a guarantee.
    The catch
    It is the only hotel here that charges for the request. A family can pay the fifty dollar connecting room fee, be promised a half-price second room on another page, and still be told the connection is a request added after booking because availability is limited. Valet at 89 dollars a day is the only parking, and the mandatory daily fee is 29.73 dollars.
  • The Loop

    Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park

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    Publishes a crib, a rollaway, a high chair and connecting rooms, and prices none of them, under a heading that reads Available on Request.

    Room to book
    A Fairmont 2 Double, which is the standard family room and carries no published headcount
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    The Loop, beside Millennium Park to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family who want a full-service hotel beside Millennium Park and will telephone for the detail.
    Wrong for
    Anyone comparing on published numbers, because there are almost none.
    The catch
    Everything a family needs is available and nothing is priced or guaranteed. Connecting rooms, cribs, rollaway beds, high chairs and babysitting are all published as existing and all as requests, none with a cost. No room type publishes a sleeping occupancy at all, and the one occupancy figure on the site is a 25 person capacity on a two-king suite, which cannot be a sleeping number.
  • River North

    Kinzie Hotel

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    Rated 4.3 out of 5 on Google Maps from 2,019 reviews, as of October 2026

    Publishes Adjoining Rooms Available as a bullet in its in-room amenity list, between the mattress brand and the television size.

    Room to book
    A Deluxe Double Queen, which is the obvious family room and carries no published capacity
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    River North, by the operator's own address to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family who will telephone and are happy to take the answer on the phone.
    Wrong for
    A family who need to know how many people a room takes.
    The catch
    It publishes that adjoining rooms are available and then publishes nothing a family could act on: no occupancy for any room, no cot, no rollaway, no children's age, no count of adjoining pairs and no way to book the pair. Six room descriptions give a square footage and not one gives a headcount, and valet at 80 dollars plus tax is the only published parking.
  • The Loop

    Chicago Athletic Association

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    Rated 4.6 out of 5 on Google Maps from 4,315 reviews, as of October 2026

    Publishes a capacity and a size for every room, which almost nothing else here does, and tells a family plainly that the rooms are small.

    Room to book
    The Bi-Level Suite at a published capacity of six, which is the only route above four
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    The Loop, facing Millennium Park to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family of five or six who want Millennium Park across the street and a published capacity to rely on.
    Wrong for
    A family of five who cannot stretch to the one suite that takes them.
    The catch
    The hotel tells the truth about its own rooms and it is not flattering: it publishes that some accommodations prioritise historic charm over oversized layouts and suggests guests wanting space book a suite. The mandatory destination fee is 31.96 dollars a night, the highest here, and the operator itself flags it as subject to change.
  • Streeterville

    Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection

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    Publishes occupancy, bed configuration and square footage for every room type, and has nothing above four people.

    Room to book
    A Double Queen, published at four guests on two queen beds in 400 square feet
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Streeterville, by the operator's own address to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family of four who want all three numbers published before they book.
    Wrong for
    A family of five, for whom there is no published route at all.
    The catch
    Nothing here sleeps more than four and the booking widget will not accept a fifth guest, so a family of five has no route through this hotel at all. There are no suites, no connecting product and no published cot, and the five-question FAQ covers pets and parking without mentioning children once.
  • Gold Coast

    Viceroy Chicago

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    Rated 4.5 out of 5 on Google Maps from 1,317 reviews, as of October 2026

    Eighteen room listings without a single published occupancy, and the highest parking price found anywhere in this research.

    Room to book
    A Deluxe Queen/Queen, the obvious family room, which carries no headcount
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Gold Coast, one block from the Magnificent Mile to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A couple with one small child who want the Gold Coast and are not counting beds.
    Wrong for
    Any family that needs to know a room's capacity in advance.
    The catch
    On published data this is the most expensive family stay here before the room is paid for: valet at 94 dollars overnight, the highest found in this research, plus a mandatory 27 dollar nightly amenity fee, plus the Tourism Improvement District charge that the hotel itself explains on its own page. Eighteen room listings and not one published occupancy.
  • Magnificent Mile

    Warwick Allerton, Chicago

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    Rated 3.7 out of 5 on Google Maps from 4,473 reviews, as of October 2026

    One of the most detailed operator FAQs in this research, and it publishes zero permitted children in all twelve room types.

    Room to book
    A Two Queen Beds room, published at up to four guests on the rooms page
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Magnificent Mile, by the operator's own address to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A couple on the Magnificent Mile who want a room count and a room inventory.
    Wrong for
    A family taking the FAQ at its word, since it permits no children anywhere.
    The catch
    The site contradicts itself about its own biggest suite, publishing 440 and 270 square feet and an occupancy of two and of four for the same Premium Suite, and both readings stand here rather than being reconciled. Its rooms page permits up to four guests while its FAQ permits two adults and zero children in every one of the twelve types, and no parking price is published at all in a city where parking runs 45 to 94 dollars.
  • River North

    Freehand Chicago

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    Rated 3.9 out of 5 on Google Maps from 3,146 reviews, as of October 2026

    Sells one room with four separate beds rather than two rooms with a door, and varies its mandatory fee by room type.

    Room to book
    A Private Quad, four twin beds behind one private door with a private bathroom
    Children stay free
    Not published. The only published ages are a booking age of 18 and a requirement that a minor share a private room with a parent or guardian
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    River North, three blocks from the Magnificent Mile to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    A family of four on a budget who want four real beds behind one door.
    Wrong for
    Younger children, given what the building is built around.
    The catch
    This is a hostel and hotel hybrid built around a bar, and the operator's own headline amenity is the Broken Shaker. The quad's four twin beds with privacy curtains are designed for four strangers rather than for two parents and two children, the standard rooms are the smallest in this research at 155 square feet, and the resort fee varies by room type with the family room carrying the highest one.
  • West Loop

    Hotel Chicago West Loop

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    Rated 4.0 out of 5 on Google Maps from 1,471 reviews, as of October 2026

    The smallest rooms here and the cheapest parking, with a bunk room that is the entire family offer.

    Room to book
    The Bunk Bed Guest Room, published at three guests on two bunked mattresses in 175 square feet
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    West Loop, near the United Center and the Illinois Medical District to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    Two adults and one child who want the cheapest published parking in the city.
    Wrong for
    A family of four, who have no published route here.
    The catch
    The rooms are the smallest in this research at 150 to 235 square feet, and the largest published capacity is three people in a 175 square foot bunk room aimed at students, so a family of four cannot book this hotel on its own published data. Its Petite Suite is the smallest and cheapest room in the building, which inverts what a suite normally means.
  • Streeterville

    Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile

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    Rated 4.2 out of 5 on Google Maps from 4,307 reviews, as of October 2026

    Included as a stated gap rather than a recommendation, because hilton.com refused every request on the day this was checked.

    Room to book
    Not established. No room data could be read from the operator's own domain
    Children stay free
    Not established
    Breakfast for children
    Not established
    Walk to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Streeterville and the Magnificent Mile, by the brand's own address to The neighbourhood the operator's own address puts it in
    Right for
    Nobody, on this page, until the operator's own pages can be read.
    Wrong for
    Anyone wanting a recommendation backed by published figures.
    The catch
    Nothing could be verified. Hilton returned an HTTP 403 block page to every request on the day this was checked, so no room type, occupancy, cot or connecting position was established at property level. What Hilton publishes at brand level is a confirmed connecting-rooms product available at participating hotels, and whether this hotel participates could not be established. It appears here so the gap is visible rather than hidden.

Where not to book in Chicago

Three traps. The first is the word guarantee, because no Chicago chain property in this research publishes one at hotel level and the only guarantee-like language sits at brand level, at brands whose own sites returned an HTTP 403 to every request on the day this was checked. Do not read a brand promise as a promise about a particular hotel. The second is the popular distinction between connecting and adjoining rooms, which no operator here draws in the way travel writing does. Hilton cuts against it outright, defining a connecting room as two or more rooms connected by a locked adjoining door, and one Chicago hotel uses only the word adjoining while another uses only connecting for what appears to be the same thing. The useful term is one almost absent from the consumer web: Component Suite, which is what the hotel that actually sells them calls its product. Watch also for Stay Together, which is a product name at one chain and a heading for group room blocks at another, and means neither thing to a family. The third is a suite. In this city a suite is not reliably bigger or more permissive than the room below it: four hotels here publish a suite that sleeps fewer people than a cheaper standard room, and at one of them the suite is the smallest room in the building.

When to book

If the door genuinely matters, book the hotel that sells it and stop negotiating, because everywhere else in Chicago the answer is a telephone call after you have paid. If you are flexible, decide first whether you need beds or floor space, since those separate sharply here: the hotel with the best connecting product publishes 435 square feet for six people, while several hotels publish 300 to 400 square feet for two. Ask for the cot in writing whatever you book, because only two of these thirteen publish a cot or rollaway position at all and the rest are silent rather than refusing. And price the parking before the room. It is 45 to 94 dollars a night, five of these hotels offer valet only, and one publishes explicitly that self-parking carries no in-and-out.

Family hotels in Chicago: FAQ

The questions parents ask most when booking a room here.

Five of the thirteen checked publish that connecting or adjoining rooms exist: Hotel Felix, the Kinzie, the Congress Plaza, the Sofitel and the Fairmont. Only Hotel Felix sells them as a single bookable product. It lists a Two Bedroom Suite, a High Floor Two Bedroom Suite, a Three Bedroom Suite and a High Floor Three Bedroom Suite as ordinary room types, each with its own page, published occupancy and square footage, and its own booking code, and its own wording describes a Two Bedroom Component Suite as one two-doubles room connecting to one queen room. Nothing on those pages says subject to availability or on request. At the other four the connection is a request rather than a purchase.

Not at any Chicago hotel in this research, and the sharpest evidence is a hotel that charges for the request. The Sofitel publishes that connecting guestrooms are available, that a one-time fifty dollar connecting room fee is applied to the reservation, and in the same passage that limited availability means you should contact the hotel after booking to add the connecting room request. Fifty dollars buys the request. The Congress Plaza states it flattest: the property has connecting and adjoining rooms subject to availability, requested by telephone, and special requests cannot be guaranteed and are judged at check-in. The Fairmont files connecting rooms in a bullet list with a crib and a rollaway bed under a heading that reads Available on Request. What buying, rather than asking, looks like is the four named suite products at Hotel Felix.

Not what most travel writing says, on the evidence of these operators' own words. No Chicago hotel here draws the popular distinction where connecting rooms share a door and adjoining rooms merely sit side by side. Hilton cuts directly against it, defining a connecting room as two rooms or more connected by a locked adjoining door, which uses both words for the same thing. One Chicago hotel publishes only Adjoining Rooms Available and never uses connecting; another publishes only connecting. The practically useful term is Component Suite, which is what the one hotel selling connected rooms as a product calls it, and which barely appears elsewhere. Because the words are used inconsistently, ask for the specific thing you want, which is a lockable door between two rooms sold as one reservation.

Hotel Felix if you want a door, with a Two Bedroom Suite published at six people, or the Congress Plaza if you want the lowest published price, with two routes to five: a Family Suite published at six adults, or a Standard Double at four with a rollaway bed at 20 dollars a night. The Chicago Athletic Association reaches six in one Bi-Level Suite and publishes a capacity for it, which most hotels here do not. Be aware how narrow the field is: of thirteen hotels, several publish nothing above four people, one publishes nothing above three, and at one the booking widget will not accept a fifth guest at all.

Between 45 and 94 dollars a night on published rates, and five of these thirteen offer valet only with no self-parking published at all. The cheapest published overnight rate found was 45 dollars for valet in the West Loop and the highest was 94 dollars for valet in the Gold Coast. Two hotels publish self-parking at 62 and 64 dollars, at garages they do not operate, and one of those states plainly that there is no in-and-out privilege. On top of parking, five properties charge a mandatory nightly fee between 27 and 31.96 dollars, one of them varying it by room type so that the family room carries the highest one. Two hotels publish site-wide that they charge no such fee.

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