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Sharing hotel rooms with teens

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PremierLynn · 09/08/2021 19:42

Do you book separate rooms if you are staying in a hotel with your teen(s)?
I feel it's very cramped as they are basically an extra adult, then there's the waiting around to use the one bathroom in order to get out early, plus the fact there's a general lack of privacy.
If you book additional rooms, at what age did you start doing so?
My oldest is 13 and I know they won't be impressed to share with us

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DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat · 09/08/2021 20:42

We started this when DDs were 13 and 14. We pretty much always manage to get adjoining rooms with access if required. They loved the freedom and a little bit of almost independence tbh. The last trip abroad was in October 2019 when they were 16 and 17 and they weren’t even on the same floor as us. They really did love that! Grin

Apeirogon · 09/08/2021 20:42

DD was happy with that as she'd prefer to share with us than one of her brothers!

DrMadelineMaxwell · 09/08/2021 20:48

DD1 is now 20 so we can book a room for her and her sister to share, and another for dh and I.

I've just booked a family connecting suite in a hilton hotel in London that gives us 2 rooms and a sitting room space. And complimentary breakfast for not much more than a twin room would have cost. They also have in some hotels a family suite that has 2 bathrooms.
And it's a function on their site now that you can search for interconnecting rooms as standard.

We are staying there Oct half term and hope it's as nice as it seems to be.

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Ragwort · 09/08/2021 20:49

We did, Blush DS is an only so it would have been very expensive to have an extra room, we woukd ask for a sofa bed or similar (Premier Inn), we shared for a week when he was 17 at a Neilson holiday, Grin - the worst thing was him coming in much later than we'd gone to bed! It wasn't ideal but better than not having a holiday at all.

blahblahblah321 · 09/08/2021 21:05

My sons were probably 10 & 15 when we booked them their own room, prior to that I think we had a couple of occasions when we booked two rooms and I'd share with the youngest and DH with eldest.

We've recently started using Air bnb - fantastic!

PremierLynn · 10/08/2021 21:34

Thanks all

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NLondondiva · 10/08/2021 21:46

We did a US trip last year and managed to book suites in a couple of the hotels that were perfect massive separate living room areas with sofa beds. Hotel rooms in US rooms can be huge! BUT this relies on your DC sharing a sofa bed. Ours are a boy and a girl and now they are a bit older, they (understandably) won’t. So we now get 2 rooms, a double for us and a twin for them. Ideally interconnecting but in smaller hotels I’m comfortable with them just being next door. We’ve done this since eldest DC was 12 - they were very responsible, had a phone etc. We always keep the key with us so we can access the room, and make sure they know how to (a) lock themselves in and (b) get out in an amergency.

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