to disagree with DH over DCh sharing room on holiday?

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We have twins, a DS and a DD. They are 13. They have their own rooms at home, but when booking a holiday flat, DH said they ought to have their own rooms, which means a 3-bed which can take six ppl, rather than a 2-bed for four. It will cost about £130 more, which would pay for carhire, & I resent that.

They always share at ILs, no prob, but DH thinks they're getting 'to old'. He said this in front of them and of course they agree, but otherwise it wouldn't have occurred to them. What do you think?

Agree with Colditz, a 13yo who has just started her periods is not going to want to share with her brother and a bit unreasonable to ask her to given you do have the money to spend.

There are two bathrooms though.

You can't sleep in a bathroom.

Whenever we went on family holidays, which was usually 4 or 5 times a year (rich parents..) I would pretty much always share with my brother. Even though they could have easily afforded two rooms, it was more fun for us to share. We liked it. It felt like we were on 'our' own holiday. We could come and go as we pleased.
And, as we had our own bedrooms at home from birth, it was a novelty.

We did this until I was 15, as I stopped going on family holidays since I was old enough to be left at home alone. My brother went on all the holidays for the next 2 years with my parents and not me and said he didnt enjoy the holidays as I wasn't there

Me and my brother are really close, very good friends, and I think that sharing on holiday definitely helped that.

Sometimes, when we were little, we used to 'stay the night' in each others bedrooms now and again and pretend we were on holiday!

Colditz - you can't sleep in a bathroom but you can change a tampon or have a wank in one.

Of course they can share.

On our family holidays there was three kids and two parents sharing either a tent or caravan and I only remember being happy that we were having a holiday,as it was touch and go a couple of years as to if we were having one at all.

At the last family holiday I was 15 my sister 13 and my brother 10 and we shared a double bed with a single bunk bed above between us three, my parents had a double maybe 2 foot away from our beds and the bathroom was a walk away in the toilet block...we managed fine.

we're going away tomorrow and all 5 of us will be staying in a family room (for 4, omg, must be crazy)

I think it's madness to pay an extra £130 for a bedrrom each. bloody hell, it's only the room they have to share, not the bed, right? And like you said, they're going to be up together in the evenings, only actually sleeping in the room, it's NOT the same as having your own bedroom at home, where you might disappear off to for privacy, with mates etc.

Don't do it!

And next time get dopey dh to air these fab ideas NOT in front of the kids!

If you have to give them the choice, then phrase it so they choose, eg if you share, we'll be able to hire a car and do x, y, z, if you have your own room we'll be stranded in appartment/hotel the whole time and only be able to eat sawdust. or somehting like that

Would appproch it another way tbh and find various flats of different sizes and make a decision based on which one you all like best.
Certainlt when booking accommodation the last 3 years we've been really limited asto what is still avail;ablr 6 months in advance and not all the points on our wishlist have been ticked.

I have to say at 13 I would have totally and utterly loathed sharing a room with my very smelly brother. It's the sort of thing which would have been memorable about the holiday.

I knew one family where the mother and daughter shared a room, and the father and son.

What about the possibility of someone sleeping in the living room?

Blimey, I am one of 4 and we would never have had a family holiday if we moaned about sharing. Aren't holidays all about 'mucking in together'?

One year the 6 of us + my eldest brother's girlfriend went on holiday together. To a 2 bedroomed place in Spain.
Mum and Dad had a room. Sis, me and younger of my brothers had a room. Older brother and his bird had sofa bed in living room.
One bathroom.
3 weeks.

Best holiday EVER! We were 21, 20, 18 and 16 at the time. I was the 16 year old.

I do agree with everyone who says yes they should just have to share. Apart from my own personal experience with my brother, in which case it would have been totally unreasonable to expect us to share and I'm very glad my parents saw it as unacceptable

Pay the extra. Have only read OP though.