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Not wanting to go on a girls weekend if sharing a hotel room?

126 replies

pinkgirls · 21/03/2024 21:07

I've been invited on a 3 night long weekend break.
With a friend and 2 of her friends.
Thing is it's all of us in one room with bunkbeds.
They want cheap and cheerful and this is where they picked.
Room looks tiny
I like my own space and for 3 nights it seems like hell.
Would anyone else be put off too ?

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WoolyMammoth55 · 21/03/2024 21:32

Like PP, I'd just find the nearest hotel/ airbnb option with a nice ensuite double room and book that.

If they ask why, you can say you snore and would disturb them in a bunk room!

Enjoy the fun bits of the trip and sleep comfortably in your own room.

K0OLA1D · 21/03/2024 21:32

As long as they weren't expecting me to get on the top bunk it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

MsFogi · 21/03/2024 21:34

Hell would freeze over before I shared a room (or a bathroom).

OnTheBoardwalk · 21/03/2024 21:38

I recently joined a friend and her friend on holiday. They’d booked a good hotel (premier inn standard that works for me) so I booked with them but the bed was just not for me. The mattress was more of a topper than a mattress

I’m too old to not have a good nights sleep. Maybe 30 years ago

I cancelled the budget and booked into a Radisson nearby and had a lovely sleep no hassle no drama with friends. Book yourself a hotel rather than a hostel and enjoy your trip

DrJump · 21/03/2024 21:39

I would hate it. I'm an early riser. Would be so frustrated laying in bed waiting for it to be a reasonable time to make a sound as I got up.

Lisiantha · 21/03/2024 21:45

This is perhaps the only upside of being a snorer.

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 21/03/2024 21:50

You cannot expect them to change budgets but can you book a decent hotel room round the corner?

Malarandras · 21/03/2024 21:51

I would buy my own room too. I don’t share rooms with anyone other than immediate family when there is no alternative. No exceptions (save hospital admission!).

LlynTegid · 21/03/2024 22:02

I would decline myself.

DSD9472 · 21/03/2024 22:03

At a push I spent single nights away with strangers and friends on hen dos, but that was 20yrs ago!
Now, I like to take my bra off in the evening, and not even close friends need to see that! It might be a laugh, but sleeping in a bunk, feeling the other person move and rolling over, plus walking around the room bra less or getting changed into PJ's in front of randoms would be a no from me.
Does the room have an en-suite for just the 4 of you, or is that communal and down a hall somewhere?

NewName24 · 21/03/2024 22:10

It wouldn't bother me, but then I like staying in Youth Hostels so am happy to share with strangers, let alone people I've chosen to go away with.

hattie43 · 21/03/2024 22:13

Nope , my friends and I go away and we all want our own rooms . We aren't students any longer

Beansandneedles · 21/03/2024 22:16

For me it would depend on the friends. Usually my uni friends and I go away and we have a space which is mostly 2 to a room, with 1 or 2 single rooms which are given on a first come first served or most deserving basis (i.e. the person who's kids sleep the worst usually!!). But before Christmas we stayed in a place where we all shared, everyone had their own double bed but all in one room and it was SO fun. It was like being back at uni again!!

But then in June I'm going on a hen do where I don't know anyone and i've paid more to have my own room. If I don't know/love the people I choose sleep and privacy!

Aquamarine1029 · 21/03/2024 22:20

Hahahaaa. Fuck no. Sounds like prison.

saprising · 21/03/2024 22:30

Don't go! It's my idea of hell on earth

Arraminta · 21/03/2024 22:35

This would make me want to actually cry. I need an early-ish night, a quality mattress and peace and quiet. We're going to a wedding soon and I've actually booked separate hotel rooms for DH and me because we know he'll want to be up late partying and will snore like a bear when he eventually crashes into bed.

DGPP · 21/03/2024 22:36

This wouldn’t bother me at all!

coodawoodashooda · 21/03/2024 22:38

DrRichardWebber · 21/03/2024 21:30

I would 100% not do this.

Agreed. Awful.

Perfectlystill · 21/03/2024 22:38

I wouldn't go if I couldn't have my own room.

828Pax · 21/03/2024 22:39

I did this last year on a girls break...I was really uncomfortable going but as it was a friends birthday I felt like I had to go.
I ended up having to share a room with another 9 ladies!!! (Think like the love island bedrooms!) It was awful. I was paranoid about my snoring. I just felt deeply uncomfortable, so much so that I left after the 1st night instead of staying for 3!

SirChenjins · 21/03/2024 22:40

No way would I share a room with three others (or one other for that matter). Can you still go but book a hotel nearby?

RomainesToBeSeen · 21/03/2024 22:40

I'd either decline or find somewhere to stay locally in my own room.

There are only two people I will share a room with- DH and DSis. Apart from that I need my own space. I am old, I snore, I fart, I like my privacy. I don't want to share a room.

TeenLifeMum · 21/03/2024 22:41

I share with friends all the time when we go away. Doesn’t bother me. I’m in my 40s and can sleep anywhere.

ParrotPirouette · 21/03/2024 22:43

No chance, I’m a grown up, not a girl guide.

Ponderingwindow · 21/03/2024 22:43

I outgrew that sort of trip many, many years ago. When i travel, I want my own room with an en-suite. If I can’t afford that, then I don’t need to take the trip.