We have had a few reservation inquiries over the last week where the would-be guest says they have an infant. We don't take infants due to some very steep stairs in our very old cottage. After some back and forth explaining this, the infant turns into a 3 or 4-year-old, yet the guest did not indicate that in the inquiry.
We have a nightly charge for anyone above 2 guests and suddenly its "oh, I didn't realize kids counted and there was a charge...." (Methinks this is a tad disingenuous as ages are clearly listed and charges pop up with the added guest of that age.) Some of these requests have multiple pets and kids and while we don't charge a pet fee, these sorts of groups can be messy and require additional turnover time/lots of laundry.
Are other hosts not counting children? If you have a charge over additional guests of a certain number, do you collect that for kids? While we are happy to host families, we definitely need to charge appropriately.