How to Avoid the Single Supplement and a Great Deal for Canadians

The Hotel Indigo in Liverpool, England.

Which came first? Room rates or the fact that rooms are priced for couples?

Does it really matter? In most cases they are one and the same.

Hotel rooms are typically charged by the room per night regardless of whether there is a single person or a couple staying in it and this amounts to a solo traveler paying twice as much as those traveling in a pair.

Therein lies the single supplement.

And this cost differential affects tours, cruises and other travel tha...