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Sharing a hotel room with a stranger

332 replies

nomorespaghetti · 11/01/2020 08:40

I've signed up to do some volunteering for a large national charity. I need to attend a training weekend for it about 2 hours away from where I live. It will involve one overnight stay. The charity will pay for train travel and overnight accommodation, but they've asked that volunteers share a twin bed room with another volunteer to keep costs down. It doesn't specify that it'd be a person of the same sex (but I'd hope so!)

The thought of sharing a hotel room with a stranger makes me feel super anxious. I wouldn't mind doing it if it was someone I knew, a work colleague for example. And I've stayed in hostels before (many years ago in my youth!)

I've no issue with telling them that I'm not comfortable doing it. But I want to know if others would be ok with it in this situation. Friends in real life also said they'd not like to.

YANBU = I wouldn't want to do that
YABU = I would be happy to share a room with a stranger

OP posts:
Barearseloverofthigh · 13/01/2020 17:54

I hope you nicked those false teeth Yo. You never know when you're foof is going to need a pair.

DanglyTasselsOfThigh · 13/01/2020 17:56

A toothless foof is a harmless foof and we cannot have that now can we?

ThighThighofthigh · 13/01/2020 17:56

Dangles! the scythe, make haste!

ThighThighofthigh · 13/01/2020 17:58

IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU

DanglyTasselsOfThigh · 13/01/2020 17:59

Where is the sleeping stranger Thigh? I can only see a bloody mess on the bed!!

ThighThighofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:00

Oh sorry Dangles i just birthed the 11th second coming. Follow me.......bring the bucket

Barearseloverofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:00

You need the sharp end of David Attenborough's cock to get the jaw off in one clean piece. Tiggs is in dire need of bum teeth!

DanglyTasselsOfThigh · 13/01/2020 18:01

is that RichThrustine or a strawberry jelly Thigh ?

Barearseloverofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:02

draughty!!!!! join in! Bring your bucket and any bum teeth if you have them.

ThighThighofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:02

RichThrustine incorporated into a trifle Dangles

Use a spoon, we're not animals

Barearseloverofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:04
DanglyTasselsOfThigh · 13/01/2020 18:04

Oh it's delicious Thigh , You really must let me have the recipe!

ThighThighofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:07

It's just corpses and jizz Dangles

ThighThighofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:09

Oh btw PoorThrustine where's our shark?

Barearseloverofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:09

Nothing to see here! No dead RichThrustine. No, no, just two murderous loons thisters sharing a trifle.

DanglyTasselsOfThigh · 13/01/2020 18:10

Shaaaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkk!!!

DanglyTasselsOfThigh · 13/01/2020 18:10

Ooops that was loud!

ThighThighofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:12

Take the wine out of your wine

Barearseloverofthigh · 13/01/2020 18:12

I L😍ve sharing a hotel room with a shark AIBU?

QueenOfToast · 13/01/2020 18:27

I shared a hotel room with a stranger on a weekend training course for the Terrence Higgins Trust in the 1990s and I would do the same today if I was asked. It was with a person of the same sex and it felt totally fine for me.

However, I agree that it would have been nice for you to know this before you made a commitment.

TimeforanotherChange · 13/01/2020 18:43

This would be a flat 'no' from me. I'd be massively uncomfortable sharing a room with someone I knew - never mind a total stranger.

I like my privacy, and as an introvert desperately need alone time to re-charge my batteries and cope with people again.

WombleOfTheThighs · 13/01/2020 19:06

Some of you are being foofist. We don't all need teeth in our foofs to do damage, you know

WombleOfTheThighs · 13/01/2020 19:07

I HRTFT or the OP, but YANBU.

TremendousTartofThigh · 13/01/2020 19:18

Womble if your fanny is so tight that it can do damage then you have to be the one to shag Piers and Donald to death. It's only fair because it's going to take a while to get the teeth sorted for the rest of us.
I haven't RTFT but I like to share rooms with strangers, I don't sleep much so I just watch the strangers while they are sleeping.

YoTheGinPussyOfStMawesOnThigh · 13/01/2020 19:19

Back in the day when I was a mere thighlet i climbed Mount Olympus with a crowd of strangers. The mountain refuge near the top had mixed dorms with beds that slept seven people. The trick was to get there early And get a wall so only have someone one side of you. It was grim. Grim I tell you. The showers had ice cold water straight off the mountain. I filed my toe and finger nails to dagger points in case of perverts. I slept not a wink in my attempts to hang on to my ha’penny. We moved on to the Pindos Mountains where the shared beds were full of bed bugs which is another story entirely.

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