to think standard double beds are too small?

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away with work.
standard double room.
bed is too short and too narrow. and that's for me alone.

how can 2 people comfortably sleep in one? every night? at the same time?

and don't get me started on the manky decorative bed throw and cushions

A US queen is 5 ft. wide (60 x 80 in).

YANBU. We have a super king size which I love (DH was talked into it after I started having nightmares and took a chunk out of his forehead with my fingernails one night - now he's a much safer distance away).

When DH (6') and I first met at uni we shared a single bed for three years. I have no idea how!

Super king here as well, OH is a big bugger and I am a starfish....God only knows how but we shared a dreadful cheapo double with a really flimsy mattress for the first three years we were together and hadn't a pot to piss in. When he got his first week paid job, the first thing we splashed out on was a super fab, super king bed! Fifteen years later a still have it and have just treated it to a new mattress. It's my favourite place!

finally back home! sooo looking forward to my bed.
in my dreams I have a bed where all 4 of us can starfish.

YANBU - we have a six foot bed but still can't sleep together, fortunately we have a guest room with a five foot bed - hate it when we have guests - if we go away I always insist on twin beds.

I just don't know how couples can sleep in a standard double bed.

It's taken me ages to find this image again that I saw a few years ago. All "family rooms" in hotels should look like this :

I wonder whether central heating/double glazing etc plays a factor? I can't bear sharing a normal double with DH partially because we're too close (neither overweight, but he's tall), but also because we get too warm! Maybe standard doubles were more accepted in the past because of wanting the body heat and because (IME) you move less when cooler in bed?

I'm another who can't accept a standard double in hotels now I'm used to a king size. It's not a holiday unless we have a king size or larger

oh wow mrshathaway !

I hate having to share a double. DH is long so needs the full length. I'm small, but a warm blooded wriggler. Even worse if the bed is soft as DH's weight (and he's a healthy weight) sinks in to the mistress, so I end up rolling in to him. I'm definitely used to a king.

DS2 sneaking in, I can cope with as he lies fairly still between us, but if DS1 creeps in, he sneakily sprawls or rolls up against one of us and leaves us clinging to the edge. I tend to give up quickly and recolonise his single bed. Bliss.

wonder whether central heating/double glazing etc plays a factor?

Yeah that's probably a factor. I get really hot when DP and I cuddle in bed (warm flat) and roll away to the cool bit to sleep.

In my old house I had an attic room and it was COLD and we just had a normal double and slept cuddling or spooning way more!

We sort of do, but we call them 'small doubles'. They are the 4ft wide doubles, really just for 1 person

Oh I didn't realise we called those queens. Learn something every day :-) I'd only seen them as 'small doubles' '3/4 beds' or 'shit small beds'!

Has anyone on here measured their 'double' beds? Having lived in Europe for ten years, measuring beds in metric, I can't get my head around what a 'standard double' is. My mum has a tiny 'double' bed in her spare room, she claims it is a 'normal double' and that DH and I should be fine in it (it's their old bed) but it's only 120cm wide! A standard single here in France is 90cm... So a double in the uk is only 30cm more??

so on this basis YANBU op.

Bed sizes here go 90cm single then 140 - 160 - 180 - 200cm. We opted for 180cm, best decision ever. We love our big bed, and really struggle to sleep in a little one.

Super King here. Can't bear anything smaller. We have rejected houses on the basis that the main bedroom won't take our bed. I love it.

We've only ever had a double. Bedroom's big enough, but we couldn't get anything bigger up the stairs without taking the house apart. DH is tall and we're neither of us the skinny youths we once were, but the double is fine. It's a bit of a squeeze if the dog decides to creep in for a cuddle, though.

I can't see how the 15cm for a king makes much of a difference (hence us looking at superking!)

I cant sleep in a Queen or King sized bed except on my own.

Has to be Super King. Its the first thing me and DW stipulate in a hotel and if we cant have that it has to be single beds side by side.

On the mattress question we have to have a very hard mattress with a thick mattress topper on. It combines firm support and softness. The more you pay the more you get. I spend 1/3 of my life in bed so its worth spending money on bed, mattress and nice linen/covers and nightwear.

I am a bit sleep obsessive as I have a severe sleep problem.

Id really hate separate beds.

We could probably afford a better mattress if we got king rather than superking bit just the leap to king doesn't seem to make any difference.

I think a UK king is a USA queen.

I used to share a double with my 6'6" ex - he claimed he had to sleep diagonally to fit in too (he couldn't just bend his knees, oh no). I am only 5'2", but it was unbearable. I woke several times a night after being kicked, rolled onto and having the (king sized) duvet yanked off me.

Now it's just me and very often my 3YO and I bought a king size - BLISS.

Like others have said, how on earth did my 6'4" uni boyfriend and I manage to fit into a tiny single together every night for 2 years? We never used to fall out over it either - I used to feel lonely and a bit lost when we got to sleep in a double together !

King here and Super king in our apt abroad. Neither of us are big but still find it uncomfortable to share a standard double these days. Heaven knows how we managed for the first 30 years we were married