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I'm looking at rooms at booking.com and regarding the price to add one extra child they often write something like: All children under two years old stay free of charge for childrens cots/cribs.

I'm not a native english speaker, but my understanding of "under two years old" is only applicable when the child is 0 or 1, but I called booking.com and they confirmed for one sample hotel that it is fact when the child is two years old.

So can I assume that generally when they write under two years that a two year old can stay free of charge?

The examples are from hotels in Kenya if that makes any difference.

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Under two years old generally means not having reached the second birthday.

To include two-year-olds, the phrase would normally be two years old and under.

Therefore, it appears that (in the given example) for a child who is two years old you will have to pay USD 66 for an extra bed.

If you want to allow for the possibility that the company setting prices really does intend to include two-year-olds in the "under two" category, then you should call them up and say "I have a two-year-old, does she or he stay for free"? In this case, you'd obviously want to do the same when she or he turns 12.

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