Bikes in Hotels

[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.

[kiwi girl]

I only have exprience with this in Australia when I have done a couple of Victorian 'big rides'

The first time we did it we took the provided transport from Geelong so stayed at a hotel there. We kept our bikes in our room. When we arrived our bikes were in bike bags and so we had to do a couple of trips up and down the lifts with all our luggage. The person at reception looked at us kind of strange when we were doing this so we worried if it was OK.

The next morning every second person coming down the lift had a bike with them.

At the end of the trip we have stayed at the same Holiday Inn in Melbourne both times. The first time they got us to keep our bikes out back in a staff area. The second time we got to Melbourne earlyish and our rooms weren't ready yet. We went for a walk, and when we got back our rooms were ready and the bell boy had taken our bikes up to our room!!

[Geonz]

I might call **anonymously** -- but they can't say no if you haven't asked. Whenever I am going to do something that people might have a reason not to want me to do because somebody else messed up their day or life when they let them do it, I either try to do it so discreetly that they don't even know (which of course means making sure it doesn't mess anything up for them), or in such a way that it is clear I'm taking their needs into consideration.
This is, however, one of those "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" situations IMHO.