Do your m/f teenage children share a bedroom on holiday?

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Yanbu - yes they do
Yabu - no they don't
It's not really a aibu, I just put that in to enable a vote.
My kids share a room on holiday, I just wonder a little if this is still OK? I think it is.

Recent trip choice was All girls - me and DDs and DH and DS or
Three older teens share - they chose to share -

Yes, mine are 16 and 15 and they share a twin room on holiday. Of course they would prefer their own rooms but if it’s the difference between having a holiday and not having one they put up with it. If we are away for an extended period or multiple destinations I try to book one or two places with 3br if I can.

Of course it's fine. I shared a room with my dad on holiday well into my teens!

Yes - my 2 have often shared a room depending on what has been available. They are late teens/early 20s now and still would if it meant a free holiday 😁 I think as long as there is an adequate bathroom where they can get dressed etc in private it's fine for the odd week or 2, if they are willing to do so.

We literally all share a room. Me and my oh, our two teenagers and a 6yo. We book family rooms when we go away, we can’t afford to book a room each! It’s been a complete non issue apart from the kids initially bickering over the best beds

I don’t see the issue. I shared on holiday. I’d share now as an adult too if it came to it.

How do the DC feel about it? It’s their holiday too so if they’d have a totally shit time and hate being in each other’s space, I wouldn’t do it. If they get on, I would.

Absolutely no way, I wouldn’t expect my children to share over age of 9/10

How do you handle privacy around getting dressed/undressed? Amazed teens would be on board with this.

"Absolutely no way, I wouldn’t expect my children to share over age of 9/10"

Why?! Mine would hate to be forced apart at 9. But I must be weird because I shared with my brother no issues, even in our 20s

My 3 teens do and the 2 girls sometimes share a double bed. It's that or no holiday

UK holidays we do try and get three bedrooms or two bedrooms plus sofa bed as they prefer not to share and helps my sanity 🤣 however abroad they have to share. We can’t stretch to three rooms there.

Bathroom?

Yes. We all share a tent.

I have a dd (13) and ds (15) and I’m happy for them to share as usual (changing separately) but dps mum keeps going off on one when they share a room at her house, and said that they should have been split since they were 9-10. Dp has now said that I should share with dd and he should share with ds, for our summer holiday which I’m not in favour of. I’m interested in seeing all the responses here.

No, it’s not much of a holiday for them really if they don’t have somewhere they can change, relax etc without worrying about privacy.

And tell each other ‘avert your gaze’ if necessary, when getting changed.

Yes, actually only a few years ago I shared a room with my brother while staying at another siblings house for a family event. Just for 1 night We were both in our 40s.

We've done this on occasion, if budget didn't stretch. When I had three teens, we all shared a cabin on a cruise, it was a squash, but it was fine. Just changed in the bathroom.

No, it’s not much of a holiday for them really if they don’t have somewhere they can change, relax etc without worrying about privacy

I disagree, the holidays where we all shared a room were possibly the best holidays we've had. Not necessarily because of the room sharing, but because they were 'big' holidays to long haul destinations, and my teens would rather come and share, than not go at all, which was the choice they had.

Because my DD was very much into puberty & her body was changing & she needed her privacy from her brothers. She would have hated sharing with them

Mine shared a room on holiday when they were younger, but not as older teenagers. I think they were 10 and 12 the last time they shared. If we had two rooms after that, we'd split it so I'd share with DD and DS would share with his dad. We did sometimes all share one room, though that would normally only be for a night on the way to somewhere else.

Not quite the same, but I’ve shared a room with either or both of my ds’s on various trips without issue (I’m female). The important thing is how your teens feel about it though.

I shared a room with my brother 4 yrs my senior and for reasons I won't go into here, I hated it. HATED IT. We are
No contact now.

I have m/f teens and its been an issue for the last few holidays.
Sometimes 3 bed is significantly more expensive, we normally try and get somewhere with a sofa bed if there's only 2 bedrooms. We're going away for a w/e soon and 1 will have to sleep on the sofa but for our summer holiday we've got somewhere with 3 beds.

I have a 19yr son and 17yr daughter and they will share room (twin beds) if we go away. They just let each other know when need privacy to get changed.

My “children” (DS 20, DD 25), usually share on holiday. Mainly because DD (moved out a few years ago) tends to just join us for part of the holiday and DS sometimes doesn’t come (has SEN and often decides he’d rather stay home) so it doesn’t make sense to book anything bigger than a two bed property. When we go to Disneyland Paris we ALL share a room!