Rooms when having guests

[DadTo7]

Our house has 5 bedrooms, which is usually fine for us. My wife and I share one room, my 2 eldest daughters (15 and 12) share another, my step-daughter (15) and step-son (11) each have their own rooms and my youngest two (twins, age 5) share a room.
My eldest son (22) and his girlfriend are visiting for about a week. We don't have a spare room so the easiest option is for them to take my step-daughters room. She would share with DDs (15 and 12), but I'm worried it might be a bit uncomfortable for her having a step-brother she'd never lived with in her room.

Ask her how she feels, and give her the option. She might be fine with it.

If not, I’d kick the twins out, personally - five-year-olds won’t feel so personally about their intimate space as an older teenager and it’s probably also easier to put them on camping matts or something in the living room or your room and get them thinking it’s an exciting adventure.

Has this never occurred before? I would have thought such logistics would come up in blended families sooner. My daughter has the best room in the house on the understanding that she vacates if we have extra guests. Whose house was it originally? If your step daughter has always lived there it is a bit odd to make her move after all this time.

My wife and I moved in together 2 years ago and married a year later. We brought the house together just over a year ago after we married.

My son usually lives in London with his girlfriend and grew up with his mum in a different part of the country, so doesn’t visit all that often.

The twins are adopted and came into our home last year. Before them, our son would stay in their room (which was the guest room).

It makes the most sense for my stepdaughter to move as her room is the biggest that isn’t shared (stepson has the box room). She’s very close with my 2 bio daughters, so that isn’t an issue, I’m just worried that it might be strange for her to have two adults in her room.

How about you and you wife sleeping in her room and your son and his girl friend in your room?

Have you got a study/second reception room etc? Somewhere you could put a blow up bed?

I think it might feel odd to a teenage girl to have two adults she doesn’t really know in her room and bed. Ask her what she thinks.

I'd find space for an air mattress for your visiting son. If your house has 5 bedrooms it must surely be big enough to have an extra sitting room or snug?