UK, early 1600s, traveling, one or two rooms?

Hi all,

I'm stumbling over a small detail in my WIP and can't find the answer. A married couple (Lord and Lady) are traveling and staying at an inn overnight. Would they share a room or have two separate rooms? I've found that it was customary for married nobility to have separate chambers at home, but what about during their travels?

Does anybody know about this/can anybody hazard a good guess?

It's not really important and I can just skip it, but I would like to have my WIP be as historically accurate as possible

Alessandra Kelley said:

I'm not sure the inns had the luxury of space for two rooms for two people. Didn't travelers often have to share beds with strangers, even? Because space was so tight.

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That, too. It's a problem. I think I'm making too big of an issue out of something not even related to the plot. Now I'm considering what Shakesbear said below, having them stay somewhere else. Thanks!

Shakesbear said:

What Alessandra said. But - there is always a but with history! - they could, if wealthy/important enough, hire a whole inn. If they knew about the journey in advance they might have written to someone of their own social standing and asked for hospitality, that is they would have said they were passing through the area and asked to stay. Married people who had the luxury of separate bedrooms might not have wanted to stay at an inn - too low down the social scale!

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Thank you. I was considering this, too, and it's probably the best and most elegant solution. I think I actually geographically located a side character somewhere along the way to their destination, so I could use him.

Woo!