to ask for my own hotel room on business trip?

Absolutely 100% agree OP. I would not want to share a room with anyone other than my husband. A bedroom is a very personal space. My son had to do a business trip to Germany and was forced to share with a colleague, swore never again! Haven't read all the posts but stick to your guns.

Quite.

@Notmollybutdolly OP, do not make an excuse about snoring or flatulence. Simply tell them it’s unprofessional, unacceptable and a huge invasion of privacy, and you’re not going to do it.

This was years ago, and not attending was non negotiable.

Last time I was told to attend something that involved an evening do with a shared room I kicked back and said I wasn't going. Miraculously, a room was found.

I was a medical rep in my younger days for a very well known company and we used to have full marketing conferences twice a year in swanky hotels. One year, they flew us all out to Madrid but obviously clawed back some costs by making us share our rooms with colleagues.

When I arrived, my colleague whom I’d never actually met in person before, had already flown in hours earlier and was laying in the bed (a kingsize that we had to share) smoking. She was a chain smoker, I didn’t smoke, and I never stood up for myself.

We were there for 2 nights and I hated it. It was excruciatingly uncomfortable and no one seemed to question it! This was in the early 2000’s .

No way. I’m a snorer and need to wee numerous times at night.

My DH finds it stressful at times. I would feel bad for some innocent, unsuspecting person sharing a room with me. Would be so uncomfortable.

Of course it's not unreasonable.

Work is taking the piss. Unless you actually volunteer to share a room with a colleague because you know them really well and get on with them, it's just not acceptable to expect you to share a room with colleagues.

You can only ask. Shared rooms are pretty standard practice

What about if one of you like to sleep with a light on and the other doesnt.

One of you has to have sound, the other in complete silence...

One who likes the room hot or the room cold

One who snores loudly or has a sleep app machine or sleeps naked.

How is this allowed. Crazyness!!!

This is an absolute no. Absolutely not, no way, should you be expected to share a room with anyone let alone a stranger. You are 100% right to say no.

That is so inappropriate, I’d refuse to go unless I had my own room. I’d only feel 100% comfortable sharing with my mum, partner or best friend of 25 years. Brother and SIL at a push (we are close and lived together for years). There’s no way on earth I’d share with a colleague or stranger.

More fool you. If your employer expects you to give up your free time for a work trip, they should pay for you to stay in your own room.

The irony.

No way would I agree to sharing a room.
You are adults away on company business not school children on a field trip.

One of my coworkers used to say this about sharing rooms with other male coworkers: "I work with the man, I don't sleep with him! " Usually got them off his back.

I've worked for a company that asked us to share rooms on business trips, but didn't force it. Some of my colleagues were happy to do it, but I made it clear that I wasn't and they never tried to persuade me otherwise - but I was lucky enough to be quite senior in my department, which may have helped. Once there was a cock-up and they had no room for me, but some of my colleagues were in rooms with a spare bed. Again I made it very clear that I was not going to accept that and would be quite happy to get the next train home instead, but fortunately the hotel managed to produce a room eventually.

I worked for a company where the expense budget didn't stretch to sending the whole team to overseas meetings. Teams from the other countries would take turns who got to attend but the UK manager had the bright idea for colleagues to share. Apparently it was all fine until one meeting where the allocated hotel had glass walls and door in the bathroom. So colleagues had zero privacy for showering, changing and using the toilet unless the other one went out into the corridor. There were lots of complaints. Thankfully I worked for the regional team and had my own room...

Are you? I have been away with work several times and we were always expected to share rooms.

Absolutely no way would I share a room with a colleague and I wouldn’t be worrying about coming up with a reasonable excuse either. It is not acceptable. I recently stayed in a hotel with my adult daughter and our twin beds were so close together and touching, they looked like a double bed. I would not want that experience with a colleague

Absolutely not unreasonable. You need downtime and privacy and you won't get that, sharing a room with someone who's just a colleague.

Just say I have a condition which would make it extremely unpleasant for anyone to share a room with me

Out of 7 companies DH and I have worked for, only one sometimes makes DH share a room. And that's when he's on an oil rig. If he's on the mainland, he gets his own room.

Totally reasonable to say you aren't sharing, unless you are goingvto spring the dip feed on us that you are going sonewhere with incredibly difficult transportation, and very limited space!

I believe its actually illegal as an employer to enforce this as its an infringement on your personal rights

Whilst there is no legal requirement to provide single rooms, its extremely poor practice to require colleagues to share a room e.g for privacy. Also generally it doesn't cost much more to provide individual rooms. Just tell them you cant share with someone who is not a member of your family.

100% not unreasonable.

Why not? It’s a wholly inappropriate demand to make.

Citing a medical excuse, for example, implies that were it not for that reason you'd be quite unbothered by the idea.
I bet companies write off bloody enormous sums for training initiatives, receive big hotel discounts…and would never ask two guest speakers to share!
This presumption that privacy or seclusion is something only weirdos need or prefer seems to me to be a very juvenile, and certainly offensive attitude.

Bad enough having to spend 24 hours a day away from home for work, but at least your room should be your own space.
As a pp said, unless you’d be receiving a generous overtime supplement to your salary for the hours beyond those conditioned in your contract, they’ve no right to expect you to extend yourself in such a way.