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Could you cope with twin beds for one night?

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AnnaQuayInTheUk · 05/10/2025 19:15

Just interested in what people think.

Our DC have grown up and left home, so we have two spare bedrooms. One has a double bed in, and is the room we usually give to guests. The other has twin beds in, both 3'6" beds with a small chest of drawers in between them on which there's a bedside light, a few books etc.

We've just had two sets of friends to stay for the weekend. Couple A arrived on Friday night and have just gone home. They got the double room.

Couple B arrived on Saturday afternoon and went a few hours ago (longer drive) and we put them the twin room. When they've visited before they've been the only couple here so have had the double room. They asked if we could rearrange the furniture so that the two single beds could be pushed together as they "couldn't sleep apart". So we ended up having to empty the chest of drawers, lug everything around and reassemble it on Saturday only to do it all in reverse this afternoon.

We've all known each other since uni, all been married for 30+ years and I was a bit surprised that they couldn't sleep with 3ft gap between them for one night. But then I decided maybe I was the exception.

So, for those of you who've been married/together for years, could you bear to sleep in the same room but not the same bed as your partner for one night, or would you have to rearrange all the furniture so that you could snuggle up together?

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MonsterMunched · 05/10/2025 19:51

I’d be delighted to be away from the snoring duvet hog 😂😂

inamo · 05/10/2025 19:53

That's no problem Mabel, just move the furniture and sort it out the way you want it. I'll put the kettle on shall I?

RightOnTheEdge · 05/10/2025 19:54

I think its quite pathetic for one night.

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EerieDecorations · 05/10/2025 19:23

The only drawback (and we had to do it in a hotel once) is that I can't reach to poke him when he starts snoring. Otherwise no issue at all.

This is exactly what I was going to say - need to be close enough to poke him in the ribs when the snoring starts. But far enough away that I can’t hear him at all is also fine.

Topseyt123 · 05/10/2025 19:56

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 05/10/2025 19:32

I didn't feel they were being rude, it had just never occurred to me that twin beds were an issue.

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I disagree with you there and I wouldn't have complied. Twin beds are absolutely not an issue. It

They actually were rude. It's a bad and entitled guest who asks to rearrange the furniture in someone else's house without very good reason.

It clearly doesn't bother you though so I guess that's fine.

Rosesanddaffs · 05/10/2025 19:56

@AnnaQuayInTheUk for one night they made you move the furniture, I would have refused!

I love having a bed to myself, no one fidgeting and farting 😂

EleanorReally · 05/10/2025 19:57

i like a twin bed, particularly as i am used to a king size and a double is too small

MsCandlelight · 05/10/2025 19:59

I wouldn’t choose twin beds but it would be fine for a night at a friend’s house.

Lucelady · 05/10/2025 20:00

Twin beds, bliss.
We have a superking and anything smaller is a pain. We're both hot bodied.
Married 37 years.
I did once have a zip option in my biggest guest room. I felt like a hotel at times!

Kelly1969 · 05/10/2025 20:01

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 05/10/2025 19:15

Just interested in what people think.

Our DC have grown up and left home, so we have two spare bedrooms. One has a double bed in, and is the room we usually give to guests. The other has twin beds in, both 3'6" beds with a small chest of drawers in between them on which there's a bedside light, a few books etc.

We've just had two sets of friends to stay for the weekend. Couple A arrived on Friday night and have just gone home. They got the double room.

Couple B arrived on Saturday afternoon and went a few hours ago (longer drive) and we put them the twin room. When they've visited before they've been the only couple here so have had the double room. They asked if we could rearrange the furniture so that the two single beds could be pushed together as they "couldn't sleep apart". So we ended up having to empty the chest of drawers, lug everything around and reassemble it on Saturday only to do it all in reverse this afternoon.

We've all known each other since uni, all been married for 30+ years and I was a bit surprised that they couldn't sleep with 3ft gap between them for one night. But then I decided maybe I was the exception.

So, for those of you who've been married/together for years, could you bear to sleep in the same room but not the same bed as your partner for one night, or would you have to rearrange all the furniture so that you could snuggle up together?

Why did you have to empty the chest of drawers to move it?
I would have told them they’re welcome to move stuff around themselves, but you want it moved back afterwards.
It’s petty for one night, but if they’re happy to do it, fine, but I wouldn’t do it

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AnnaQuayInTheUk · 05/10/2025 20:01

I helped move the furniture because all the men is had gone to the pub and friend couldn't do it by herself.

They are lovely, and good friends of ours, so I really don't feel she was being difficult, it's more that it had never occured to me that it might be an issue, especially after years of being together.

I'd rather be in a nice single bed.by myself than squashed into a double with DH!

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Ilovesandwiches · 05/10/2025 20:03

i’d just be grateful for the hospitality!

Ddakji · 05/10/2025 20:03

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 05/10/2025 20:01

I helped move the furniture because all the men is had gone to the pub and friend couldn't do it by herself.

They are lovely, and good friends of ours, so I really don't feel she was being difficult, it's more that it had never occured to me that it might be an issue, especially after years of being together.

I'd rather be in a nice single bed.by myself than squashed into a double with DH!

That’s because it isn’t an issue. They made it one. God knows why.

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AnnaQuayInTheUk · 05/10/2025 20:03

@Kelly1969 because it was too heavy to move with the drawers in situ. So we pulled out the 3 drawers before moving the chest. It wasn't a big deal, just seemed a bit of a faff.

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dudsville · 05/10/2025 20:04

My Mum has twin beds. Maybe as it's my Mum we don't feel the need to ask. We just quietly rearrange them while we're staying and move them back before we leave. The actual twin bed set up is preferable to one too small bed.

MyFortieth · 05/10/2025 20:05

Barrenfieldoffucks · 05/10/2025 19:19

Goodness, they sound very much like they were making a point. I wouldn't have done it, and wouldn't have asked!

Love sleeping on my own.

What was the point though?

soupyspoon · 05/10/2025 20:05

Why did you move everything around. I would have said if they want to do that, get on with it. Although no actually I wouldnt want my furniture moved around. How rude.

Kelly1969 · 05/10/2025 20:09

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 05/10/2025 19:15

Just interested in what people think.

Our DC have grown up and left home, so we have two spare bedrooms. One has a double bed in, and is the room we usually give to guests. The other has twin beds in, both 3'6" beds with a small chest of drawers in between them on which there's a bedside light, a few books etc.

We've just had two sets of friends to stay for the weekend. Couple A arrived on Friday night and have just gone home. They got the double room.

Couple B arrived on Saturday afternoon and went a few hours ago (longer drive) and we put them the twin room. When they've visited before they've been the only couple here so have had the double room. They asked if we could rearrange the furniture so that the two single beds could be pushed together as they "couldn't sleep apart". So we ended up having to empty the chest of drawers, lug everything around and reassemble it on Saturday only to do it all in reverse this afternoon.

We've all known each other since uni, all been married for 30+ years and I was a bit surprised that they couldn't sleep with 3ft gap between them for one night. But then I decided maybe I was the exception.

So, for those of you who've been married/together for years, could you bear to sleep in the same room but not the same bed as your partner for one night, or would you have to rearrange all the furniture so that you could snuggle up together?

3ft 6 is an odd measurement, 3ft is standard single, are you sure that’s right?
I have a small double which is 4ft as my room is on small size, never heard of a 3ft 6 bed, 2ft 6 yes

soupyspoon · 05/10/2025 20:10

Im interested in why you think they're not rude OP?

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 05/10/2025 20:12

They should have done all the shifting about themselves.

mamagogo1 · 05/10/2025 20:12

Of course if it’s a free stay

Horsedoglover59 · 05/10/2025 20:13

I'm a bit surprised that good friends of yours would ask you to move furniture around for a one night stay - if it had been four days plus I might understand, but even then I'd have suggested they moved the furniture around, so long as they left the room as they found it when they left! But my OH and I have been together for over 30 years and spent the first two years of our relationship swopping who had the wall side and who had the slipping over the edge side of a single bed when neither of us were particularly slim, so we moved into a double after that, then due to his snoring, and being like a toaster in bed, and me (apparently) sleeptalking, we used our spare room as a second bedroom, and I'm convinced this is why we have clocked up nearly 31 years together!

AutumnWreath · 05/10/2025 20:13

We sleep in a double , when we need to renew , it will definitely be a 5ft for space.
If away , 2 x singles feels a treat .

namechangedohmy · 05/10/2025 20:14

Only reason I’d push beds together is so I can push DH when he snores. True!

indoorplantqueen · 05/10/2025 20:18

They sound weird.