Bikes in Hotels

[bcipam]

I'm like Denise... I just came in bike and gear in tow. Years ago a good friend I use to tour with was an employee for Hyatt Hotels. She got free rooms so we would ride from hotel to hotel. We rolled into some really fancy places looking like heck but the hotels were always gracious and I never had a problem taking my bike up to my room with me. But it doesn't hurt to call and ask especially for piece of mind. Now cleaning my bike int he room was another matter. Here where I live since touring is common, alot of hotel have signs poste "Please don't use hotel towels to clean your bike". I guess there was a reason they have to do that. I was always good about cleaning the bike outside and I carried my own rags.

[mimitabby]

We also roll our bikes into the hotel. Sometimes we can keep the bike in our room, sometimes they provide a place for it. (at the last tandem rally they gave us the ball room for all our bikes! it was quite surreal to step into the ball room and see it filled with all those tandems!)

[velogirl]

On my tour last summer, I didn't always know where I'd be staying night to night, so I didn't call the hotels -- just rolled in with the loaded bike. Most hotel staff were just fascinated with the bike and didn't blink an eye about me keeping it in my room.

When we race, we always bring our bikes in the hotel rooms. I've never had anyone question it.

Have a blast. I rode a few little bits of the Erie Canal last summer on my tour.

[Pedal Wench]

We've done two week-long tours in Colorado, each with 2,000 of our closest friends. In each town along the way, the hotels were completely sold out with cyclists. Every single one let us bring the bikes inside. We always thought it was funny riding through town and seeing all these motels and hotels with 'no vacancy' signs lit up, but the parking lots were completely empty!

[DeniseGoldberg]

We've done two week-long tours in Colorado, each with 2,000 of our closest friends. In each town along the way, the hotels were completely sold out with cyclists. Every single one let us bring the bikes inside. We always thought it was funny riding through town and seeing all these motels and hotels with 'no vacancy' signs lit up, but the parking lots were completely empty!

Now that is truly funny!

And you know, I would bet that the hotels are happier not having to deal with insurance issues for all of those bikes. I know that if a hotel wouldn't allow me to keep my bike in my room and it got stolen that I would certainly attempt to file a claim against their insurance. Seems to me that they would be at fault (to some extent) for failing to provide a safe home for the bikes. (OK, you're right, I am dreaming.)
--- Denise

[snapdragen]

I've never had a problem bringing my bike into my room, even at the hoity-toity hotel I stayed at in Beverly Hills. The bellman wheeled it up for me

[Fredwina]

I've never had a problem. The last time I did this I was with two tandem couples. The hotel had booked one of them into a room on the fourth floor. They (Hotel Staff) changed it to a first floor room when Fred and Slyvia told them they wanted to bring their bike inside.

[Deanna]

My DH and I have never had a problem bringing our bikes into a room. We do however, travel with a dog, so we get dog friendly rooms. I suppose if they aren't worried about what a pet will do to the room, they aren't too worried about the bikes.