to ask for my own hotel room on business trip?

Oh hell no. I'd pay a supplement not to share if I had to. I don't even want to share with colleagues I'm close to!

Don't be ridiculous. I've not shared with anyone other than my DH since my 30s and the only other person since I was 21 was my mother or sister! If I arrived at an hotel & found I was expected to share a room with a colleague, either close or a stranger, I'd be back in my car out of there quicker than blinking!

No, never heard of this on a work trip - weird! I wouldn’t fancy it either.

Absolutely not unreasonable. I wouldn't want to share a room with a stranger and probably not even a colleague I knew fairly well.

How inappropriate! Sharing sleeping arrangements with colleagues is so unprofessional. I would absolutely object and refuse to go.

Of course adults shouldn’t be expected to share a room.

Thats bonkers.

I actually do have a medical reason not to share but even if I didn’t I’d want my own room.

Even my ungenerous workplace doesn't do this.

Absolutely not I can’t believe this is a thing. I know independent contractors/builders share rooms but that is absolutely their choice

i complained to a regular premier inn I stayed in for work because they randomly put me in a connected room via a door with a close work mate, you could absolutely hear everything through the door. No way did I want them to hear me snoring all night

they moved me straight away, they recognised our names/company and knew we both regularly stayed there and thought we'd want to be close. Absolutely not my worst nightmare

I have never heard of a company asking colleagues to share a room on a work trip. That's insane! I wouldn't share a room with a work colleague, even one I knew well! I might share a room with a close friend, my Mum, my husband or son, but no one else. I don't think you're unreasonable at all but your employer definitely is.

Nobody should be sharing! This comes up on Ask A Manager occasionally and I assumed it was very much a crazy American thing.

I could not accept this under any circumstances. I'm a light sleeper and wouldn't get a wink of sleep. I also want to be able to get up in the night for a pee, put a light on to read if I can't sleep, fart freely or just be alone in silence. I have travelled extensively through my career and never been asked to share. I can't imagine a work trip that would be appealing enough that I would not refuse to go if sharing was a requirement. Please nobody accept room sharing lest it become a new norm like not paying sick or working 9-6 instead of 9-5 has.

I would not stay in a hotel room of a lesser standard than I have at home. So has to be en suite and not a grubby threadbare days inn type - the smell of jeyes fluid in one near Oxford will haunt me forever, particularly as the meal service was food from the supermarket next door, which didn’t sell wine to help deaden the pain - truly awful! Being away from home for work is not exciting it’s an inconvenience being undertaken for work so you should not stay anywhere less quality than where you live.

Is it Google? It’s literally the only company I’ve heard do this and only for junior ranks, eg graduates, who are used to “room mates” at university.

i would just say no without a reason but ensure you’re telling the right person. There’s no point telling the assistant who books hotels.. It needs to be management or HR

The only occasion when this might be acceptable is if the hotel is the kind that have 2 bedroom suites. I had a work hotel in Budapest like this once. It was like an apartment and had a kitchen and living room and 2 en suite bedrooms. There was only me in there!

Even the nhs don’t expect you to share a room if they send you off on a training course.

No way would I be sharing a room. Totally unreasonable on employers part to even suggest this.

Just a thought, if they make you share with a colleague then technically you are in work mode. Will they pay you a generous overtime rate for the extra 40 hours? (Assuming 2 days 8 hours work...)

Does women mean women though or Roger from accounts who now goes by Bethany?

How different these responses are to the same problem.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_staffroom/5458265-staff-room-sharing-on-residential?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Don't make up reasons or excuses, the only response is "I don't share hotel rooms" possibly adding "with anyone except my partner" but even that last bit isn't necessary.

Are they paying you to be working 24hrs a day whilst staying with a stranger???

Even if they actually were, its NO. You are an adult doing a professional role, not a 10yr old on a school camp. Ridiculous! In any company I've worked for, in 3 different countries, I've never been asked to share rooms!

Well it's up to the others to stand up for themselves isn't it?

Absolutely not. I'd not be going on the trip. I turned down a 50th birthday weekend invite recently that involved sharing rooms, the only person I share with is dp. I don't even share with my children when we go away we have our own rooms (interconnecting).

Ther are so many reasons why it's inappropriate to expect this of employees.

Everyone should have their own rooms but if others are expected to share why should you be any different?

When my husband was in the building trade he used to share a hotel room (often Mon-Fri) - albeit with one of the other builders from the same company. Would be unheard of in my organisation. I would be saying no.

Nah, out of order and I would blanket refuse.

At least you were offered a room. I was once sent last moment to the South of France on a job and they knew I had nowhere to stay because an event was on and no hotel rooms left.