Sharing hotel rooms

[thaegumathteth]

At the moment dh and I, if going to a hotel with the kids, will share one room altogether. Dc are 12&8, boy and girl if relevant.

It works fine just now especially as we usually go self catering with more room if more than 3 nights away.

What we usually do is dd and I share one double and dh and ds share the other. If it’s bunk beds or whatever then obviously the kids go in those and we have the double.

I’m just wondering what age people stopped this arrangement ? my mum said today that ds is too old now and we should book two rooms BUT itd obviously cost a lot more and so we’d be able to go away less. Also not sure I’d want them in a separate room as they both sleep walk although I know you can get interconnecting ones.

Thoughts anyone?

I don’t understand the sleeping areangements. There are plenty of family rooms available which offer a double and 2 singles.

That all sounds fine. I can’t really imagine there’s an age when that wouldn’t be appropriate - unless they are too restless at night and one of you can’t sleep sharing a bed. That said, I usually find an Airbnb is the same as a large hotel room anyway so I’d just book that because it’s easier anyway.

I think you can keep that arrangement until they move out.

Ds is 15, Dd 12 we no longer book hotel rooms like this. Instead we try to get a suit and always give the Dcs their own beds. Last time we did 2X double beds was 2016

Once they are adults with partners of their own. I always go on holiday with my parents but only started having my own room when DH started coming with us too.

We are in a similar situation op, except it’s me, DH, my DS (14) and DSS (16).
I’m just not comfortable sharing a room with two teenage boys, and I think it is particularly unfair on DSS as well... he is 16 and it’s a bit awkward sharing a room with his stepmum.
Last year we booked two separate rooms (US so all the rooms that sleep 4 have two double beds not singles) and it was so much better. Obviously it doubled the cost of the hotel but it was worth it for comfort and privacy issues. Plus there were much fewer arguments as we all had our own space and not on top of each other.

Thanks all. They are both really restless which is why they share with us rather than each other and always have.

I think we’ll stick with this arrangement just now and just play it by ear. We’ve never had a room with a double and 2 singles except once tbh it’s ysually 2 doubles or else 1 double and a pull out sofa bed type thing.

I hate this hotel room conundrum, glad it’s not just us. We have DS (16) and DSD (15) and DSS (9) . We always end up in two rooms, DH in one with his two and me in the other with DS. It’s pants but 5 in a room would be a lot anyway plus I think the two teenagers would definitely be awkward around each other. It’s so annoying!

Once ours got older we went self catering on air B&B. Hotel rooms are very small for 4 adult sized people.

We’ve never done air B&B - I don’t really understand how it all works which probably sounds ridiculous

AirBNB is really simple - you just use the app - select the area, price range, number of people and dates like any booking site, but then you can narrow it down to "entire place" so it's just like booking a holiday cottage expect way more flexible with dates and so on. Then you can specify how many bedrooms, bathrooms, whether there's parking etc.

I've stayed in some lovely apartments where we had 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and of course a living room and full kitchen facilities, in a city centre, for £80 a night - cheaper than a hotel and way more convenient for us. Doubt I'd go for hotels when travelling as a family any more really.

My son's were 13 and 15 when we stared booking seperate rooms.