Thailand is punishing me for having so many kids

Trying to book hotels for our trip to Bangkok this week was an interesting and frustrating experience. Apparently we have the most kids out of anyone in Thailand, because it is next to impossible to find hotel rooms that can accommodate us. When booking a room, you get a choice of bedding configurations -- one king size bed or two twin beds. Okaaaay. Are there really so many platonic friends taking buddy road trips together that hotels all over the country need rooms containing two twin beds?

The other option is to book a triple room, in which case you get three twin beds. This still isn't enough beds for us, but our only other choice is to book two rooms, so triple rooms it is. Yesterday we went to the mall and bought two pool mattresses. Hopefully the kids will see this more as "fun sleepover" than "mom and dad are too stingy to get us our own beds."

The hotel-booking websites are a good source of amusement for their interesting spin on the English language. One hotel, for example, claims that the "secluded surroundings will lure you with fresh air and wind." Well, a nice stiff breeze is pretty damn alluring. If that wasn't enough already, this particular hotel also has a "self dial telephone" (oooh, very Jetsons!), a check-in time of "01:00 Noon" (wait, when is that, exactly?), and a "late cheak out until 15:00." They also promise to "pay meticulous attention from every corner of Your Room to every aspect of Your Need." I think we made the right choice, don't you?