4 people in one hotel room

What?

Two kids in one bed as they're young.

If you don't want boy and girl sharing then you and daughter and husband and son.
Or even you and son / dad and daughter.

At their ages I can't see any issues letting them sleep with anyone in the group

Tends to be smaller business's in my experience. Not so much foreign travel, but within the UK

I've worked for around 10 startups and smaller companies over the years, and very rare are the trips where we got separate rooms if there was more than one of us. I'm sure the higher ups would if they went anywhere, but for the sales team, tech, account management, we'd be bunking up together.

Only exception tended to be if the two people going were opposite sex.

What the actual fuck?!
This is an awfully long thread over ONE nights sleeping arrangement. Fuck sake 🙄

She’s looking for viewpoints on the double bed configuration, not patronising comments.

Its worse if you were a single mum of 5 like me. No options at all. Just deal with it.

Quite common at academic conferences!

That is so surprising, how unreasonable. And a potential HR disaster, one would think...!

Provate rooms in youth hostels might be the solution - often bunk beds, some have a double bed but otherwise four singles.

Quite common at academic conferences!

Oh, and my children aren't sweaty, or even pubescent yet, thanks though for your nasty comments and fake concern. The discussion was about the fact that there is a period between when it may be uncomfortable and unpleasant for children to share a bed and when they're old enough to have their own hotel room.

Some people can make objective observations, shocking as that may be, rather than go online and start making personal and nasty comments about other people's children about whom they know absolutely nothing.

How unpleasant.

Right so your comments were about something we're not talking about. Helpful.
For a longer stay, you find an option that suits you and your sweaty children. It's extremely easy to find all kinds of options for the tradition family of 2 adults and 2 kids and anyone saying it isn't is lazy or lying 🤷‍♀️

Wow, you're really rather rude, aren't you?

Threads on Mumsnet aren't confined to only being able to refer to the precise situation in the OP's first comment, you know. Maybe check out the Talk Guidelines.

If you'd followed the conversation in the thread you'd see that a number of posters were in fact talking about the wider issue of hotel bedroom configurations in general, not just at airport hotels for one night. To respond to my comments pretending I was talking about not being able to tolerate such sub-optimal sleeping arrangements for a single night when I'd specifically stated the opposite, and that I was talking about how this is more of a problem in hotels designed for longer stays, and then pretend I'm at fault because you didn't read what was said properly before answering makes you look rather silly.

I'd prefer two doubles as my children would share or we'd share with each child

Right so your comments were about something we're not talking about. Helpful.
For a longer stay, you find an option that suits you and your sweaty children. It's extremely easy to find all kinds of options for the tradition family of 2 adults and 2 kids and anyone saying it isn't is lazy or lying 🤷‍♀️

Comfort and pleasure and good rest being, you know, a large part of the entire purpose of a holiday! Ideally it should feel luxurious, not like camping under a roof!

Not, not at all. It's really easy to separate any two people so that they don't come anywhere near each other sharing a bed.
That's all just weird excuses, for a one night one off.

If you'd actually read my comments before responding to them then you'd have noted that I specifically stated that for one night in an airport hotel I would lump this with my children, sub-optimal as it is, and that my subsequent comments were about hotels designed for a longer stay, particularly those that specifically market themselves as being appropriate for family holidays so should have rooms set up to make this comfortable.

What kinds of businesses are sending people on business trips and expecting colleagues to share a hotel room?!

I spent many years in a role that required regular business trips to various countries and I've never heard of this being suggested, either by my employer or any of the clients we worked with. We would have told them to get stuffed!

Most hotel twin rooms are in fact 2 double rooms nowadays. Generally, it's only old or lower standard places that actually use 2 single beds.

Not, not at all. It's really easy to separate any two people so that they don't come anywhere near each other sharing a bed.
That's all just weird excuses, for a one night one off.

We did many long road trips round the US with two children, girls, and we almost always had this set up, a couple of times the youngest had a strop and dragged the comforter to the floor and slept there because 'She smells!', but they managed generally.

I agree with you OP. Too many family rooms are set up as 2 doubles and not 1 double and 2 singles which seems silly. It’s not like you’d have couples wanting to share a family room.

When booking a holiday the bed set up is one of our main factors in deciding on a hotel and often rules a hotel out if not clear.

While the kids could share it doesn’t make an enjoyable holiday for them and with a child with SEN it can be even more challenging.

I don't think anybody said it was something to worry about. Just not very comfortable for them if they are starting to go through puberty, or the girl is perhaps starting periods, or either gets sweaty when they sleep etc. Surely you can understand that pubescent children may be young enough that a separate hotel room of their own might not yet be appropriate for them but yet they'd also like some privacy and a bed of their own to sleep in alone, even if sharing a room?

I don't believe I said that.

Also, what's your issue with kittens?

There are things called restaurants, take away delivery, deli selling ready made food..

I do just as little in a rental than in a hotel, with added bonus of separate rooms, plenty of space for the kids, and a proper kitchen with fridges etc to store snacks and drinks

Yes, so you have to go and find shops and delis. Even if you order in takeaways you still need milk and coffee and snacks and other basics. You still have to clear up afterwards, wash dishes/ load and unload dishwasher. Or go out for every meal not have room service and it cleared up for you.

For me personally, with a full time job and so much else on my plate as a lone parent and some health problems the holiday is for my children's benefit but also because I actually need total rest as well, just for two weeks per year, because the rest of the year I have to do everything and function on 2-3 hrs of sleep per day.

Obviously, people's situations are different, and what they want from a holiday is different, and hotels will cater to whatever they think will earn them the most money... hence providing cramped rooms with sub-optimal options for flexibility of sleeping arrangements in many cases. I just find it odd when hotels market themselves specifically as family hotels and then provide "family" rooms (or "suggested" rooms for 2 children and either 1 or 2 adults) that will be the less preferred option for most families with children, most of whose children would prefer two single beds to a double bed.

The additional space/ cost to change a double bed (that is being marketed as large enough for two occupants to share) to two singles that can be converted to a double so people have a choice, would not result in a significant enough saving in the price charged to make it preferable for many people, one would think. In many smaller, boutique or family-run hotels in Europe a more traditional and practical "family room" setup is still more common. Not much of a holiday if the accommodation is impractical and uncomfortable! But I think many of the large, mass-market hotels sadly just focus on price these days rather than guest comfort and try to pack in as many people as possible, as posters have said.

Those of you saying your children share, surely it would still be better if they each had a single bed rather than sharing a double?

Yes it would be better. But it's one night. Either deal with it, call the hotel asking if it's possible to split the second bed, or book two rooms.

It is only for one night, so what is all the drama about ffs?

Radisson Blu Hotel, Manchester Airport has family rooms,1 double and two single.