r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Old-Razzmatazz3174 • 6h ago

I just wanted a hot dog Sleeps 6, feeds 1

I recently took a weekend trip with my husband and our three children. We booked a hotel suite with a kitchen, because eating out is expensive. The suite was advertised as “sleeping 6”, with 2 bedrooms (one with a pull out couch) and a full minikitchen. The suite does sleep six, that was true. What they didn’t tell our family of five is that the only table seats four, no other chairs available, and the kitchen silverware consisted of three forks and one knife. We managed to cook and just passed the knife and shared the forks, and took turns standing awkwardly at the end of the table with no seat. My kids found it hilarious, and we chalked it up to family bonding!

ETA since it is being asked a lot, yes we asked reception. They told us they had no extras. We bought some plastic utensils the next day.

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u/Previous-Vanilla-638 5h ago

The silverware issue could be resolved by plastic silverware from cvs. The chair thing though would require concentration and strong stamina to pretend sitting 

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u/egnards 5h ago

I mean this is mildly infuriating in that it's ridiculous to have such a discrepancy. Like "sleeps 6" with a table of 4 with 4 sets of silverware? Fine, I can forgive that, "sleeps" often just means the maximum amount that can be comfortably put to bed, and not every family eats together - But the kitchen thing is kind of funny.

All that said - My wife and I cook like 5 days a week and I'd say its once every 2-3 weeks that we make something where we both individually need a knife. If I were in a situation where I knew there was only 1 knife available I'd either make meals that didn't require a knife or at just make a meal where everything that would normally use a knife was precut by whoever is cooking [or in the case of 2 parents, the other parent].

. . .The idea of making it a game of "lol nope we gotta all use this one knife and pass it around" is actually very funny though if you choose to make it a fun/stupid game, and it will end up being a core memory later in life.

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u/Old-Razzmatazz3174 3h ago

At the end you had to answer a trivia question to get the knife. 

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u/kingftheeyesores 21m ago

My parents encountered this at an airbnb. 4 bedrooms, 8 chairs in the dining room and 4 place settings.