Help with finding hotel rooms - where will let teens have their own room?

[CatherineVelindre]

DH and I are taking DC2 and DC's friend away to an event next month and will need an overnight stay (in UK.)

DC2 and friend are very sensible but not yet 16 and I can't find a chain hotel that will let them have their own room - on booking forms all are asking for the name of the adult in that particular room.

Obviously I could book 2 rooms in DH and my names as lead guests but knowing our luck they'd check ages and ID on arrival (have had this checked before - on that occasion it was because they didn't believe that DC1 was actually an adult.)

So does anyone know of a chain that will allow me to book a separate room for teens? I'd rather a chain than a B&B as I've had some very poor B&B (bordering on scary) experiences in the past, and would prefer the anonymity!

Holiday inn express do interconnect rooms.

Just book it with an adult per room and then when you go to your rooms do as you please? Not difficult.

Just put your name on one room and dh on the other, and the kids splot between you for check in.

Doesn't matter who sleeps where

They are fully selfcontained too. Just like two separate rooms but with a solid door between.

Could you not just check in with you and one child, and DH and one child, and then swap room keys when you get upstairs? If they're being sensible nobody is going to go and check they went to a different room

I have booked four 17 year olds into a premier inn in central london on their own for a weeks work experience. Prepaid it, nobody batted an eyelid.

Unless the room doors unlock using finger prints, why not just book 2 rooms, at check in tell them it will be 1 adult and 1 child per room. Then once you have the keys, who is ever going to know who slept in which room?

Last year we stayed at travelodges. 6 adults 2 teens 2 children.

The teens (14 at the time) were booked in with an adult each and then they just took one room for themselves.

No issues. Both very sensible.

Yes, just book one adult into each room and then swap.

We now always put our 10 & 15 year olds in their own room and just book the rooms in our names. Never had an issue with it. They usually end up in the room next door/opposite and it's better than the 4 of us squashed in a family room!

I'm clearly over thinking this! Will just go ahead and book.

Novotel do adjoining rooms with doors to link in case you need access to the other room.

As a family of 6 with one of the children being autistic we prefer rooms like this. They are designed as one accessible room, so easy access toilet, shower/bath etc in one room for someone with disabilities, with the other room for a carer. This way you have privacy in your own room but a carer can get through, to care or in emergencies.

The ones we have used have a double bed in each room with a sofa that folds out for up to 2 more people each, I don't know if there are smaller rooms but at Novotel we have always paid per person and not per room size, so wouldn't make a difference in price.

Last time we stayed in one we put the four boys in one room and dh and I had the other, a bit of privacy both ways.

From about 12 I just booked 2 in my name, hotels don't bat an eyelid

On paper it's not allowed to have children in a hotel room alone for safety/security. However we do turn a blind eye if they are teens - just book a room in each name then swap around as already suggested. Probably better to book directly with the hotel, tell them what you can get it online for, they might beat it 🤫😉