Holiday accommodation with older children

[Joul]

What do you do for accommodation when a hotel family room is probably not suitable?

I know everyone will be different just looking for what people go for and when you reckon DC become too old to all be in the one room.

Do you always go for apartments/villas or do two hotel rooms work or is that too prohibitive cost wise?

(We're traveling for a family funeral next weekend and staying in one family room for one night, dc 12 and 10, thinking won't be long until that won't work.)

The Older dc shared own room from about that age.

We started having this problem with hotels and B&Bs now as DD is 13.

For B&B we look into family room arrangements, they often have interconnecting rooms or two rooms where only the main one is accessible via the hallway, so no direct access to the children room. They often have either a bunk bed or two single.

We moved away from chains like Premier Inn and look for smaller independent places if we need just one night. They are often a lot more accomodating.

For holidays we did one bedroom suites for a couple of years but DD is not happy for long on a sofa bed. Two bedroom suites are very expensive so it will be interesting how to sort this out for the next 3 years or so until I am comfortable letting DD having her own room in a busy resort.

Yeah I'm not sure I trust the younger one in a separate hotel room, and not fair on the elder to supervise! One adult and one child per room doesn't seem right either...

We go for places with enough bedrooms behind one door. So villas, mini suites in hotels etc.
Adjoining hotel rooms was possible when DH travelled enough to have high statuses with the hotel reward system, but was hit and miss when he travelled less, so we stopped that.
I wouldnt do separate rooms in a hotel yet (and many places require an adult in each room).

I don't think package holiday hotels actually cater well for families. Better for couples. I always book a house or apartment.

Even with younger ones, we always go for a holiday let as it works out cheaper. More bedrooms for roughly the same price as a hotel room and you have a kitchen so save money on meals out.

Except in peak holiday time in the summer, I almost never spend more than £100 per night on a 2-3 bed holiday cottage or flat. Even in London, we found a lovely 2 bed for £90 a night. And then since we can prepare breakfast and dinner there (unless we want to go out), that's two meals a day we don't have to eat in restaurants (which obviously aren't open at the moment anyway).

For just an evening or weekend we'd split the adults between the kids ( three DD) with the youngest staying with DH. For longer trips it's Air BnB or smaller hotel chains.
Now DHs snoring is such a problem he gets the room to himself and the girls are all in with me

If it’s one night we just suck it up and share. The kids (DD14 and DS13) don’t really like sharing a bed unless it’s a king so DH and I will split up and each share a bed with one of them if it’s a room with 2 queen beds.

For any more than a night we opt for apartments or villas with 2 br and they share a room. Once or twice we’ve had adjoining hotel rooms but they are pretty expensive so that’s rare. They don’t like sharing but they understand that if we want to have holidays then some compromise is needed. I’m actually booking a holiday right now and I’ve managed to find a 3 br villa at a reasonable price so they are going to be thrilled to have their own rooms for the first time!