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Do you feel aggrieved if your hotel room has two singles rather than a double?

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donajimena · 02/10/2018 23:21

I've just been procrastinating on TripAdvisor. Looking at the reviews on hotels I've stayed in and I'm going to stay in. A common complaint is 'there wasn't a double bed'. Personally I can't think of anything nicer! My own space, blankets etc. If I you fancy a bit of how's your father your partner is in the next bed not the chuffing gatekeepers cottage..
I just wanted to know if it genuinely bothers people because personally I see no downsides

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Neshoma · 03/10/2018 08:44

Me and DH always check the bed status when booking. Last time DH forgot and we got a standard double for 3 nights, whilst our friends had upgraded . There was no 'how's your father' that weekend as punishment.

PerspicaciaTick · 03/10/2018 08:47

On holiday this year we had a standard double and a single in our room. I nabbed the double and DH was in the single for sleeping purposes. I was very happy.

LoniceraJaponica · 03/10/2018 10:51

"Surely these days you get the option of beds when booking?"

Not when the hotel is full pacer142. The last hotel DD and I stayed in only had doubles left.

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pacer142 · 03/10/2018 12:14

Not when the hotel is full pacer142. The last hotel DD and I stayed in only had doubles left.

That's different to the OP feeling aggrieved when they don't get what they "assumed" they were getting. If the hotel doesn't have any of the bed configurations we want when booking, then we either accept it or we book elsewhere. You can't just make assumptions if you have a preference.

TheSerenDipitY · 03/10/2018 12:18

id be pissed off if i got a single or a double, i like a king sized bed so both of us can have tons of room

bizzers · 03/10/2018 12:30

DH and I have been to a few hotels where they've given us two singles rather than a double. We just have a little snuggle in one of them and then go to sleep in our own beds. What I love though, is that in Scandinavia, they tend to give you a double bed but two separate duvets - now that's my idea of heaven! Especially as DH always says I steal the covers

HoppingPavlova · 03/10/2018 12:35

I don't get why you wouldn't want to sleep with your partner/ husband

Because it means starfishing is restricted.
Because they are a doona hog.
Because they like too many covers making the bed hot and there is no way to have separate covers. It all gets muddled up in the night and someone ends up with two lots and someone with none (see point above re doona hog).
Because they snore.
Because every time they turn over during the night you wake up from being jostled about on the bed.
Because they try and cuddle up to you and lie all over you - in >35deg weather in summer, whilst dragging the doona over you with them when you were happy with a sheet, so now with a human draped over you and doona you never wanted you are dripping with sweat and trying to elbow them off you.
Because you wake each other up when going to the loo (several times in the night when you get older).
Because lots of reasons.

If I went to a hotel to be confronted with separate beds I would inwardly jump for joy. What’s worse is going to one to have two double beds in the room with DH thinking it’s weird to sleep separately and having to spend the night looking longingly at the spare double you could be sprawled out on all to yourself .

LoniceraJaponica · 03/10/2018 12:46

"I don't get why you wouldn't want to sleep with your partner/ husband"

If you have a husband who sleeps like the dead, doesn't snore, doesn't fidget and never gets up in the night you are lucky.

Not all of us have husbands like that.

pacer142 · 03/10/2018 13:32

I don't get why you wouldn't want to sleep with your partner/ husband

We don't even sleep in the same room at home, so why would we want to sleep in a double bed in a hotel?

DelurkingAJ · 03/10/2018 13:34

I expect what I booked. I sleep better when DH is there and if I’m minus DC I blooming want to take advantage of the situation not spend the night with one of us sleeping uncomfortably on the crack between the two beds where they’re pushed together. I understand others might feel differently but then surely they’d book a twin room?!

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donajimena · 03/10/2018 15:03

delurking quite often you don't get a choice. In apartment complexes in spain two singles is the norm. I used to be a tour rep and people were often apoplectic with rage at no double.

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Justkeeprollingalong · 03/10/2018 18:30

@helacells 2 big beds is an American thing. In the Uk you get twin (2 singles), or one double(4ft 6) or one King (5ft).
Sometimes if you hit lucky (and pay a lot) you might get a super king (6ft) which is almost big enough to pretend you're in your own!

viques · 03/10/2018 18:35

I don't mind a single if it is freestanding, ie no wall either side, but my idea of sleep hell is a single with one side against a wall, actually, any bed touching a wall is horrible, but a single......eugh.

LeftRightCentre · 03/10/2018 18:46

I don't get why you wouldn't want to sleep with your partner/ husband

Seriously? Some people don't want to sleep with anyone. Not talking about sex, but sleeping. They like their own space to sleep. Or they have a spouse who snores, starfishes, steals covers, boots them in their sleep, slobbers on them, gropes, etc.

I can hardly share a room with myself these days.

Pinkprincess1978 · 03/10/2018 20:13

If I had booked a double room and was given a twin then yes I would be annoyed. If it was just they didn't have any doubles left and I had to book a twin and not stay then no I can't say I would comment on it.

Personally I like to cuddle my DH in bed, we don't get to spend a lot of time together so bed time is our time.

QueenOfMyWorld · 03/10/2018 20:36

Nah it's standard with European holidays ime.Push them together and try not to fall down the middle.

Didsomeonesaybunny · 03/10/2018 20:43

I always prefer a double as sometimes it’s impossible to push the two singles together and I like to cuddle. Also, that horrible dip in the middle when you do manage to get the beds together is annoying. I’ve actually fallen through the bed mid-sex which had us both in fits of laughter.

One of my exes is so dogmatic about having a double bed that he refused to stay somewhere we had booked because they didn’t have a double.

Chocolatecoffeeaddict · 03/10/2018 20:46

I need a double, DH slept on the couch the other night as the baby was teething and he had to be up for work and I struggled to sleep without him next to me.

pacer142 · 04/10/2018 08:36

quite often you don't get a choice. In apartment complexes in spain two singles is the norm.

Twin rooms is the "norm" in virtually all tourist-y holiday resort accommodation. I don't think we've ever had a double bed in 30 years of holidaying when we've gone with the main holiday package firms.

Booking independently in non tourist-y hotels (i.e. chains like Holiday Inn, Radisson, Best Western, etc) usually means you get a choice at the booking stage. And, of course, if you're booking privately owned villas or apartments via the directory websites, you usually get the exact details (and usually pictures) in each listing so you can choose what you want.

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