I've suffered sleepless nights on a couple of occasions when in for surgery, with a very noisy room-mate in a twin room. One time he was clearly non-compos-mentis and kept falling out of bed all night.

Since then, although probably only once, I've just asked to have a private room and to pay the difference myself, and I think my wife's done this two or three times. Definitely worthwhile, and at just a couple of hundred chfs much cheaper than paying for supplementary cover, of which this is the only benefit that I could ever imagine using.

Edit: Hah, just beaten to it by Melloncollie. Great minds, eh?

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