To want a UK hotel room which sleeps a family of five

The King Charles hotel in Gillingham does family rooms that sleep 5. You may well find other independent hotels that do.

We have stayed at the King Charles when visiting family in the area, but it's not exactly in a holiday destination. Excellent breakfasts though!

@tenredthings @passiveaggressivenonsense

bear in mind if you get caught, you will be asked to pay for another room or leave the hotel. Also from a health and safety point of view, god forbid their is a fire and you only have 4 people on the booking, that’s all the fire brigade will search for.

Premier inn family room, take a roll mat and a sleeping bag and sneak them in.

Sleeping bag and a roll mat and sneak them in. We've done this a few times. Two rooms is too much cost.

Well I have 4 In one room staff never said a thing at pi lol

Belton woods hotel in Lincolnshire do family rooms to sleep 5 even standard room has 2 large double beds in they are part of Q HOTELS so maybe other from same chain might be ble to help think they used to be part of DEVERE CHAIN might be worth an look.

its been quite a while since i stayed in one but Travel lodge used to do family rooms, ive stayed in a few with 2 double beds and a pull out kind of single bed, might be worth an e mail.
All very reasonably priced.

7 of us stayed at the Taj51 - Buckingham Gate.

Was lovely! Not sure if it's London you're looking for though!

Re the fire risk - hotels have absolutely no clue which if their residents are currently in their rooms or if someone has brought a guest back so fire brigades don't have lists and they check as they would any other situation where they didn't know who might be present

Alternatively hostels with private rooms tend to have larger capacity

Just book a premier inn or travel lodge family room and go in separately

Yes that’s what I mean running out. My are prone to walking around in the middle of the night. They could easily walk straight out of the room. First thing I do is start moving furniture when I get there to prevent this happening.

Airbnb is better and cheaper

Sorry @olivehater, we’re talking at cross purposes - you mean from kids opening the doors and running out, not barricading you in one room. Again, ours are too young to think of that but at least I’m alive to it for the future!

@olivehater ah, ours are too young to even think of barricading themselves in. But if you’ve got two key cards for each room, could you just walk out of one room and get into the other? But I guess it might not open if the key card is in the slot to keep lights on?!

The problem I have with adjoining rooms is you can’t leave the kids in one room anyway as these days you can’t bolt the door from the inside so can’t stop you kid running out in the middle of the night. It’s supposed to be a safety feature but is utter madness. We always end up barricading the doors with whatever furniture we can find even when we are in the room so wouldn’t dream of leaving them without at least one adult in the room.

@Dishwashersaurous it's a bit long-winded so bear with me! We have at stayed at The Pentire Hotel in Newquay twice now, once in 2019 when we got married, and the following year for our anniversary.
The first year my mum, sister, nephew and daughter were given a family suite that fit 6, (we had a special offer with them as there were loads of us).
The second year me, my husband and then 2 year old daughter were given a family room that had 2 interconnecting rooms. We didn't have to pay for 2 rooms, more so it was the family room price, so probably only £30 more than just a double room

I've been in several hotels that has had 2 double beds but it has been considered 2 person room. So I'd call a few places to ask since the kids can share a bed.

Aparthotels or air bnb i think are your best option , I stayed in a travel lodge once that had room for 3 kids as it had one of those double bunkbeds too but that was in Wales, booking 2 rooms expensive I understand which is why u want the 1 room, time these hotels accepted 3 as most have thr room , i had 3 kids too ( now grown up) but our holidays either aboard self catering or visiting parents in this country, good luck

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I did a quick search and this link has several hotels that cater for 5 people.

Yes, because we have occupancy limits. @BoredZelda

Which going by this thread are routinely broken , you earlier in this thread said the number of people died in fires was large because of over occupancy . I think that isn't true. The reason we have very low deaths in hotels isn't solely down to occupancy limit , as we have seen it can't be.

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Travelodge only sleep 4 to a room

If they're all happy to sleep in one double bed, can't you book a Premier Inn family room, then put the three kids in the double, and you and DH take the two singles?

Or take an air bed for one DC.

Three kids here and youth hostels are definitely the way forward.