Struggling with hotel rooms for a family of 4 with 2 teenagers.

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So, looking for hotels for a city break to London and all the options seem to be either 3 people in 1 big bed and the 4th in a single sofa bed or 2 seperate rooms. With a 15 year old and an almost 13 year old, neither seem practical or appropriate

Is this just the way it is and if so, what option is best? Me and DH don't really want to sleep in separate rooms (each with a child) when we are on holiday.

You book 2 rooms each with an adult, then put the teens in together. No one knows or cares.

Get an Airbnb!

I have a 15 and 13 year old and if it's only for a one night stopover to break up a journey we book a premier inn family room and it's fine. The third bed can be a bit in comfortable so we always keep a self Inflating camping mat in the car to put over the hard bed mattress just in case,

For longer stays or one that involves wanting to get ready in the room to go out we book two rooms and the kids go in one and the kids go in the other. We would only stick to that plan if we the rooms are close to each other ( they always have been) We'd be prepared for DH and I to go in separate rooms if we were put on different floors.

I meant that we go in one and the kids go in the other - and yes you have to book it as if it's one adult and one child per room

DDs are 16 and 12. We usually try and book them into a room next to ours. But sometimes they've been down the corridor. Sometimes we've had to book one adult with one child in each room on the booking system, but DDs have still been together in the room.

I'd just get an air bnb apartment

Hilton Allie you to book interconnecting
Park plaza Westminster has mini suites with 2 sleeping spaces

At that age I just booked 2 rooms, one double 1 twin. No hotel ever queried it and with many chains they count 12+ as adult anyway

This is where you should stay with Teenagers!

www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/greater-london/london/hub-london-covent-garden.html

Absolutely perfect - get 3 rooms and you will only be paying the same cost as one family room elsewhere. Smack bang in the centre of everything, immaculate, slightly futuristic, modern and fun!

Try The Resident - they have hotels in Kensington, Victoria, Covent Garden and Soho. They do a room which sleeps 4 with a large double and a large sofa bed. They also have a mini kitchen area in every room which is handy!

Also, Novotel. Can get a reasonably priced suite at some locations so a double, with a large sofa bed or two singles in another section of the room. Loads in London, I've found reasonably priced rooms at Excel, Greenwich, Waterloo and London Bridge.

Or Premier Inn as previous posters have stated - double plus a sofa bed and a trundle bed usually.

We always stick the kids in their own room. They're 10, 13 and 15.

If you want interconnecting, just google "interconnecting rooms in London"

we always stay in a Premier Inn - king sized bed plus sofa bed plus camp bed.
Breakfast is good value as well. It's not exactly Michelin starred but there's loads of choice and under 16s eat free with a paying adult, so it works out at a fiver each.