What age did yoir kids get their own hotel room?

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Theteenandme · 31/07/2025 23:29

What age where your children when they started getting their own hotel room instead of a family room?
Single girl.

What about in youth hostel type places?
We always book a family room when we stay in youth hostels. I feel like the age for this are different in YH?

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NavyRose · 02/08/2025 20:15

We get air b&b's for UK trips so we can have our own rooms.

Onelifeonly · 02/08/2025 20:14

In hotels, we had family rooms up till about 18; in holiday resorts separate rooms much younger, quite often a twin room attached to ours or an apartment with two separate sleeping spaces, not necessarily divided by a wall. Mine same sex though not always on good terms, so we did occasionally have to split and share with a child....

GonnaeNoDaeThatJustGonnaeNo · 02/08/2025 20:13

Mine are 16 and 12 (one of each) and we still book family rooms.

Because of price.

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/08/2025 20:12

Haven’t stayed in YHs. Our “kids” are 30 and 22, grandchild 5. We still all sleep together in a family room.

tartyflette · 02/08/2025 20:12

About 14 for DS but earlier if he had brought a friend on holiday. Say 12?

22O725 · 02/08/2025 20:10

We did the split by sex when they were teens so DH with the boy and me with the girls otherwise we would have needed 3 rooms instead of 2. DS stopped coming with us when he was about 15 and DD was 17 by then so she shared with her younger sister and DH and I got some peace and privacy

I have never stayed in a YH, I wasn’t even aware families could!

MissAmbrosia · 02/08/2025 19:52

16 in a hotel - under that most YHs won't allow under 18s in a dorm.

Topseyt123 · 02/08/2025 19:10

They had their own rooms from about their mid teens onwards. They wouldn't have wanted to be in with us then any more than we would have wanted them to be.

SabrinaThwaite · 02/08/2025 19:09

When they were 16 and 9 (same sex children) when staying in hotels. We’d mostly done villa / apartment holidays up to that point.

Backgroundnoises · 02/08/2025 19:05

All together in a family room then in twin rooms when older teenagers. I'd share with my daughter, my husband with my son. After 18, they didn't want to come on holiday with us anyway! 😢

cofffeeee · 02/08/2025 18:42

shellyleppard · 01/08/2025 03:39

@Theteenandme my two are 20 and 17 , just had their first holiday in their own room...its usually down to the cost too

shellyleppard · 01/08/2025 03:35

@Theteenandme children can go in single sex dorms in youth hostels from 18. I prefer a family room though. But that's just me

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