To think it's fine for DS (17) and DD (15) to share a hotel room?

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We are going to Australia to stay with friends via various Asian countries this summer.

I was chatting to a friend about our plans - the majority of the holiday will be spent with friends where DD will share with our friend's daughter and DS our friend's son.

The hotel stops on the way out and back (5 nights total) DD (who is 15) and DS (who is 17) will be sharing a hotel room.

I told my friend this and she was horrified that they would be sharing. Really? At what age did people stop their DC sharing on holidays like this?

Or maybe she's just worked out that she has a perfectly normal life and her friend has simply lost the plot. Sometimes siblings don't get on - but hey they are old enough to learn behave themselves for 5 days because l they are getting a luxury holiday.

Whats the the point of loads of people saying oh my DCs were fine, no probs, etc, when they and their DCs aren't OPs DD? With a domineering DB and a mum who is frankly odd. Wont ask DCs what they think, has dismissed her DD out of hand 'she doesnt "get" him & is histrioni', and actually says as a mum she'd hop in and share with her son not her DD?! The DD doesn't have to 'get' any man who is domineering towards her. All your jolly japes stories whilst completely and utterly ignoring posters who've had awful experiences with older male siblings show that you think holidays and money are everything and they trump everything else. & a woman feeling uncomfortable with a man is to be minimised in the face of all that. All the holiday of a lifetime boasting, coupled with the martyrs ohhhh we'd not have been able to afford it unless 3 to a bed top to toe ...irrelevant and braggy.

You could equally say all those who have broken up contact with their parents because they weren't asked or those with truly horrid siblings are irrelevant, MistressDeeCee. Because we don't know which it is. OP does and made her choice. She simply asked At what age did people stop their DC sharing on holidays like this?. So good and bad stories equally valid.