Every hotel we've stayed at in China has a night-stand "console" between the beds.


It's a unit with switches that control all the lights and things in the room - there's a TV button, even a "Do Not Disturb" button that lights a sign outside your door. Because of the complexity of the wiring, I always assumed these things were immovable, but upon further examination I found they are connected to a thick cable that's fairly long. So we moved it as far to one side as we could and pushed both beds together up against the wall. It puts the two wall mounted bed-lamps in an awkward spot, but it gives us a large "family Bed" and much more space than we would have with two cribs or toddler beds in the room.


The staff has not said a word to us about this arrangement, so I'm sure we're not the first ones to do this.

The top of the TV armoire is the highest surface in the room. This makes it the perfect place to store things you don't want your shorter roommates into. We've even unplugged the night-stand phone and put it up there.