What age did yoir kids get their own hotel room?

@22O725 parents need a holiday too! It's not just about the kids. Alone time for the grown ups is just as important.

We’ve got 3 DC so family rooms rarely worked for us once the youngest was over the sleeping in a travel cot age.

DC are now 15, 13 and 10 and we get two rooms - one twin with an extra bed and a double for us. No issues at all - other than youngest DC loves the internal phones and calls us constantly, which gets a bit trying!

We’ve never really shared a room with our kids on holiday. When they were younger we always self catered, villas/ apartments/ lodges, with at least 2 bedrooms. They were 14 and 18 when they first shared a hotel room in the US, on the same floor as us but several doors down. We’d all much rather have our own space to chill. The only time we might share is a one nighter staying in an airport hotel before an early flight.

Oh I didn’t mean 4 on a room I was thinking of the male/female spilt

Same! Though if you are in a room with two double beds, you can fit parents and kids in. And lots of hotels will put an extra bed in the room if you ask.

I still share a room with DM on holiday and she’s 73 and I’m 45!

Disagree strongly. We put up with it for uk short breaks but for main holidays we need our own space. So it’s almost always two bed apartments (or cabins on French campsites) or we pushed the boat out this year for two interconnecting rooms in a hotels.

I adore my kids but can’t bear the four in a room thing on proper holidays. Kids don’t like it either especially as it usually means a camp bed or similar for them.

Last summer dcs were 14 and 11, they had a room next door to ours. We went away at February as well, then 15 and 11 (nearly 12) room across the hall to ours. Small hotels each time. We’ve done interconnected rooms since they were school aged when we could . (Left the connecting door open at night).

we’ve always said it’s their holiday too and a couple of “family rooms” holidays which effectively put the kids on sofa beds or camp beds is not really ok. They need proper beds too.

How would it not be a real holiday if you shared a room with your kids? Surely the holiday is about everything but the sleeping arrangements?

My DD and DS stayed in their own rooms for the first time at 18 and 21, courtesy of a holiday of a lifetime funded by GPs.

YH were great when they were younger but our holidays were always on a budget so for short breaks etc we were all in one room. Camping they had their own space from the first time we went, probs age 6ish. Even last year I shared a room with 18yo when we went to Mexico.

We have got separate hotel rooms since early teens - B/G twins who are happy to share.

This is why we don't holiday in hotels! I may consider it next year 13 and 15 if Interconnected. They are rule keepers though. If it was just for a night or two I would consider sharing but it's not a real holiday if you have to share a room with the kids imo (which is why we only go away every few years because apartment/ whole house options are expensive).

Youth hostels in London allow you to book into single sex from 14 (take passports they will want them) I take my daughters (14/16) to them often. I am on a tight budget.

Hotel rooms always SAY 18 earliest. But the reality is I book two rooms, and they share a double and dh and I share a double. Neither daughter wants to share with dh (he is a terrible snorer!) and the hotel never checks given if they damage the cost comes from my credit card anyway.

Two girls have a shared room aged 15 and 12. Both v sensible and I’d always try to pick a small hotel where we’d have adjacent rooms if not interconnected.

I don’t know about youth hostels but we used to do road trips across Europe and I used to have my own hotel room from 14. One time the room I was allocated was in the ground floor which my parents didn’t like so I ended up swapping and having their big suite style room and then got a small 3/4 bed! We still laugh about it.

We have a boy and girl, 11 and 13. We usually book two twin rooms and have a boys and girls room. It keeps costs down and they can't share with each other.

DS is 17 and had his own room in a hotel in Greece this year. Usually you can't have any under 18's alone but he was near to our room, it wasn't a big hotel, and the hotel wasn't bothered. We've done a lot of villas or two bed apartments to get around him having a separate room over the last few years which has worked much better for us

We put my 2 in their own room (together) in the rooom next to us for a Uk city break when they were 10 and 14.
We usually go SC so it was never an issue

In B&Bs and hotels, we still tend to get a family room so DS (16) is still in with us
AirB&B, we usually get a two bed house/flat
In holiday villas/apartments, he's had his own room from outset
In Premier Inn we had a family room but the spare beds were shocking (won't do that again!)

It really depends what sort of accommodation is available. We only have the one DC and aren't on a tight budget, so we haven't had to try to cut costs. I did a weekend break in York and in Amsterdam and booked a family room for DSis, DNiece and me both times. Think I would probably have done the same for a week's stay though, it suited us all OK.

My son was 16 when he had his own room which to date has been either next door or next door but one. Game changer for us all, but we do share when fiendishly expensive to do otherwise (New York) or if it is a one nighter. Make sure I have a key card though as he sleeps like a log (and sometimes locks himself out).

Same as pp, just me and dd. She's 19 and if I'm paying, we're sharing. If she's paying for a holiday, it isn't with me, but when it is, she sucks it up.

We also went for interconnected rooms from around the age of 8 and early teens for two rooms next door to each other.

DH has ridiculous status with at least 2 of the big hotel chains. So we get free rooms on tbe occasions we want them, and specify interconnecting, which we have always got.
So, 8 and 10 - but interconnected, so the kids could walk through to us.

just our trio of children no partners...they are in their 40's and still happy to share a family room with dh or i when we travel/meet up somewhere fancy enough to require a hotel.
never ever would i spit up "the family" during the teen years. even early 20's.

DD and I went to Montreal, shared a room and a bed. DH met DS in a much larger city, to pick up work place supplies, again not only shared a room but shared a bed.
I met up with my DD, her family AND her partner YUP all 5 of us in one room (age range from 6-66).

If it’s just me and dd - well she’s in her twenties and still shares with me. Cheaper

We tend to get two bed appartments but on occasion that we are in a UK premier inn we’ve had a family room. They are 10
and 12 and I think not far off having their room as long as it was very close by, which of course is very difficult to guarantee. 12 year old moans that he doesn’t get a proper bed in the premier inn.