Some hotel guests would rather the hotel provvides rooms

I am caught between (B) and (D).

(D) uses provided however i am not sure if this tense is correct.

The stem says that some hotel guests would prefer rooms which do not face the street. The preference here is between the rooms which face the street and rooms which dont. Therefore, the bare-bone paraphrasing of this argument would be: some guests would prefer (to stay in) rooms which do not face the street to the rooms which face the street.

Option (D) convey the preference is between the hotel providing them rooms and the hotel not providing them rooms. "Some guests would prefer the hotel provide them rooms (facing the street or facing the beach or the lake) to not provide them rooms at all. The preference being conveyed here takes away the focus from the kind of rooms the guests prefer.

Just my thoughts. I may be wrong here, but it would be great if anyone could post either the OE or their arguments.

Editing post because I'd mistakenly thought someone had posted the OA.

OA is (D)

So we could assume that this usage is almost always in past tense then. (Subjunctive mood I suppose?)

I'd just memory this one: I'd rather prefer he did something. (which he didn't do really, so it is subjunctive)

If it were D shouldn't it be:

Some hotels guests would rather the hotel provided rooms that did not face the street.

I would have gone with B.

Maybe because the rooms are always facing the street, so it is a fact, like this one:

He talked about why the earth goes around the sun.

Just a thought.