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I charge a larger fee for extra people because I don't want them cramming extra people in. For the most part, it's difficult to get away with. One woman brought her two children and her parents and "might" have gotten away with it, had they not played with a door that hadn't had the locked used in over 100 years and locked themselves inside.

I have had one person try to have a party, only to find out that I wasn't having any of it and was about to call the cops on trespass for the extra guests. Whoops...

I did have one time that it made me smile. It was a family that had their son graduating. My guess is this was the first family member to graduate university. They booked 2 of my rooms and begged me for a third, but it was already booked. I will make exceptions, but you have to talk to me honestly about it. For the sake of $20 a night, it's not worth the extra effort to hide it from me, when it includes breakfast, linens, etc. Instead of discussing it with me, they snuck in an extra with an air mattress... we played a game of hide-and-seek. They put away the air mattress in the morning and we ignored it... and put all the furniture back. Was it worth saving $40? You had to buy an air mattress, bring sheets, bring towels, skip the breakfast for one person... and the secret... that room had a single bed that pulled into a short King.... and they could have been treated like a guest for $40 for two nights and the likely spent more to sneak them in.