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To be p'd off about our holiday rental?

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VayKayShun · 04/08/2018 23:51

Arrived at our holiday cottage today to discover one of the bedrooms is only accessible through another bedroom. No mention of this in the details when I booked. For various reasons this now means DH and I are in bunk beds having to share a room with DN!

AIBU to think that we should have been made aware of this before booking (especially when this layout really isn’t suitable for our group) and that a bedroom you can only get to through another bedroom is a bit weird?

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Original poster
VayKayShun · 05/08/2018 07:35

Makemineboozefree

The room I'm in now isn't the one that leads to another room - it's the one with 4 bunk beds and not a scrap of furniture Hmm

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poppingalf · 05/08/2018 07:38

Isn't it something like it can't be called a bedroom if it has no window? I was sure this was a rule when we bought a few years ago

ThisIsntMeHonestGuv · 05/08/2018 07:40

In your first post you make it sound like being in bunk beds is part of the issue, when your already knew you were going to be.

I'm struggling to understand why, if you had other options, you chose a more expensive option that meant one of the couples would be in bunk beds.

Its definitely annoying that the layout wasn't clear, but the house seems fairly unsuitable for you regardless of that.

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VayKayShun · 05/08/2018 07:43

It's more being in bunk beds sharing a room with our niece that's the issue. I wouldn't have minded being in the room with one set of bunk beds ourselves as DH and I would have just squeezed on the bottom bunk together!

We chose this one as everything else about it sounded perfect and we'd agreed that the couple in the room with bunk beds would swap half way through the week which isn't easy now due to the layout

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VayKayShun · 05/08/2018 07:46

poppingalf

It just needs two exits from a room apparently (for safety reasons I assume). This has the entrance and then an exit to the bathroom, which has another exit, so is probably fine.

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ThisIsntMeHonestGuv · 05/08/2018 07:50

I don't know why the youngest doesn't just share with their parents in the double in that case. Or put the oldest kid on the sofa with a blanket.

Then you could have that room all to yourselves.

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VayKayShun · 05/08/2018 07:55

Because a child sharing a bed with her parents doesn't seem ideal. Not sure any of them would sleep that well. And forcing my niece onto a very small sofa when there's two empty beds in the same room as us is just mean!

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Mix56 · 05/08/2018 07:55

can you take the mattresses off & sleep in the sitting area ????

Mummyoflittledragon · 05/08/2018 07:57

I feel your pain. That sounds pants. I once rented a cottage with my parents. Dh and I let my mother and stepdad have the room with the only bathroom accessed through their bedroom. This was a surprise! Luckily the loo was separate so no issue there. My mother expected me to ask permission to use the bathroom even if they weren’t in it. Confused The stairs to our bedroom were so steep we had to go down them facing forward like a ladder. Also not explained well!

Mummyoflittledragon · 05/08/2018 07:58

Why don’t you put your nieces mattresses in her parents room and yours together on the floor?

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VayKayShun · 05/08/2018 08:00

Mix56

At first I thought you'd had a genius idea! But we need to be in a room with DD and she can't sleep in the living area as she goes to bed at 7:30 and then everyone else would have to leave the living area for her to sleep.

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AnoukSpirit · 05/08/2018 08:02

Any habitable room above ground floor has to have an egress window (ie one that fits a determined size a person could escape through). Bathrooms aren't habitable rooms, bedrooms are. Internal windows are not egress windows.

This is for fire safety reasons.

Is it on the ground floor?

Mix56 · 05/08/2018 08:03

OK so now you are in a room with DD & niece ?
well niece can go on floor with her own parents

bbcessex · 05/08/2018 08:03

Bloody rubbish for you OP

It needs to be made VERY clear in the material if bedrooms aren’t independently accessed.

Quite reasonable to expect people to want privacy for numerous reasons.

YADNBU and I would kick up a fuss (also about the storage - sounds like a hostel)

Mix56 · 05/08/2018 08:05

either way, I suggest you ask for compensation

Themerrygoroundoflife · 05/08/2018 08:07

Sounds rubbish and I would definitely want some money back. I think you should raise this early with the owners. Obviously there isn’t anything they can do, but make sure you screen shot any descriptions so they can’t change it afterwards.

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VayKayShun · 05/08/2018 08:08

It's on the second floor and it definitely doesn't have an escape window but as you can escape into the bathroom and out the other side doesn't this count?
Also it's not in the UK and I don't know if rules are the same here.

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Jeezoh · 05/08/2018 08:09

Can you move mattresses around to different rooms improve things (sorry I’m a bit lost with the descriptions of who is where!) We’ve done that before when the layout hasn’t suited us.

ThisIsntMeHonestGuv · 05/08/2018 08:10

So your DD is also in the room?

Do what difference does it make having another child there too Confused

INeedNewShoes · 05/08/2018 08:10

That's pants. I would definitely complain and request a partial refund.

ThisIsntMeHonestGuv · 05/08/2018 08:13

I'm confused.

Original plan - you two in bunk beds
Couple in double room
3 kids in other room with bunk beds.

But it now appears that there are 4 children

Where was the other child going to go?

ShumpaLumpa · 05/08/2018 08:14

As Mix & Mummy suggest, can you not put your mattresses on your bedroom floor and DN's in her parents? Or is there no room?

FASH84 · 05/08/2018 08:14

Take a mattress off and put DN on it on the floor in the room with her siblings , if you want take two mattresses off and make a double on the floor in the room of many bunk beds for you and DH, or if they're the kind that come apart as stand alone singles, take them apart and push two together to make a double. You need to get creative, also a diagram of room layout and beds would help people make useful suggestions ....

ThisIsntMeHonestGuv · 05/08/2018 08:15

And there's also the option of the kids topping and tailing.

ShumpaLumpa · 05/08/2018 08:17

My mother expected me to ask permission to use the bathroom even if they weren’t in it. confused

Your mum is a right piece of work mummy

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