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To not get where everyone sleeps on a package holiday hotel family room?

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FlexibleWorkingDenied · 21/01/2022 08:17

What with Covid, I’m just now tentatively looking at holidays abroad and we are now a family of 4. We’ve done holidays as a couple and then with one toddler who slept in a travel cot in same room but we now have us, DD1 who will be 7 and DD2 who will be 18 months. The 18 month old will sleep in a travel cot, but where does the 7 year old sleep?! We’ve stayed in premier inn in the U.K. where we had a family took which had a double bed, a single bed and a travel cot so I was expecting similar (I didn’t dare to dream that separate bedrooms would be an option Grin). We are happy to all sleep in the same room. But what’s coming up on my searches on sites like Tui and Jet2holidays is either a hotel room or studio or one bed apartment which have either a double bed or two single (twin) beds. In the studio or one bedroom apartment type ones; I have an inkling that the couch converts to a bed? (But can’t find any actual photos of the couches as beds) So do the adults sleep there after putting the kids to bed in the bedroom (less comfortable?!) or does the kid sleep there and everyone goes to bed at same time/adults hang out in bedroom after kid asleep on couch? All these hotels are billed as “family choice” and “family friendly” and have kids pools etc and the rooms come up as “family room”.
Any experience and insight welcome!

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Passthecake30 · 23/01/2022 22:35

We used to let the kids have the bedroom and we slept on the sofa, as it meant we could stay up later and get up earlier (I’d nip to the shops for croissants). This year (3rd time lucky?!) we hope to be going to Greece and have got a 2 bed apartment.

hulahooper2 · 23/01/2022 23:51

Our kids stay up till we finish our night out , or fall asleep in buggy , they would have sofa bed and we have the bed

DishwashDogsDickens · 24/01/2022 01:45

We have 3 kids and none of them are toddlers anymore

We often book superior family rooms. These would have a good size bedroom , balcony , living room and … a junior bedroom. This is often a smaller room/ box room with bunk beds. This works well for us so long as the box room is off the balcony amd has air con. Otherwise it is pointless

Winecrispschocolatecats · 24/01/2022 06:26

Every TUI holiday we've been on has had 2 bedrooms (sold as a junior suite/deluxe family room or similar). One double room and one with twin beds. Often, the doors separating the bedrooms are more like floor to ceiling screens ie doesn't block sound. Handy to have the illusion of privacy from the kids (and be able to hear if they needed anything) but it also means chatting in a whisper until they're asleep 😂

We've also seen the standard family rooms which, in general, have a double bed and then a small single, with the beds separated by a low dividing screen - only to designate space rather than for privacy.

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