Hen Do sharing rooms

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I'm going on a hen do this weekend and one of my friends has been told she's sharing a room with someone she doesn't know, this would be fine however we've just found out it's double beds, how would other people feel about this, would you be comfortable?

I turned down a hen do for this reason too (sharing with 7 strangers in dormitory type accommodation).

In my 20s, that was fairly standard on group weekends away

I mean, we went on a mums' night out with our internet birth group. Chatted online in a group but most of us had never met. I shared a room with two other in-real-life strangers, including a bed with one of them.

In your scenario, it would be a little bit weird, but unless you believe the bride secretly hangs out with psychopaths, I'd crack on with it for one night unless there's a potential for room swaps.

Most places have doubles that separate into two singles. Depends on what type of accommodation. The organiser could ask for a camp bed if the double is fixed.

The organiser could have organised it a bit better!

I would not sleep in the same bed as a friend I knew not to mind someone I didn't!

I wouldn’t share the room. Sharing a bed is ridiculous.

With someone you don't know?

But then I've also shared a dormitory with 6 bloke mates on an overseas football trip (nothing funny going on with any of them) and a mixed dorm with perfect strangers in a youth hostel in Portugal 🤷🏼‍♀️

I don't think I would care. I certainly wouldn't care about sharing a room.

No. Genuinely. Most people are good people. What about it would bother you?

I would ask the person organizing to swap so I can be with a friend.

They have been unreasonable for not confirming there was bed sharing in advance

If just one night and drinking involved i wouldn't care too much

No no no.

I think a dorm like scenario is very different from sharing a double bed with a stranger. You expect to share in a dorm, but you wouldn’t expect to share a bed in a dorm.

In my 20s I wouldn't have cared, but now I'm at an age where I can't sleep unless I take my own pillow, I certainly wouldn't manage to sleep sharing a bed with a stranger. And in my 20s a night without sleep didn't matter, now I'd need a week to recover. So it's a pragmatic no from me!

I wouldn’t care if it was a friend. But you are entitled to have your own boundaries.

It would bother me only because I struggle to get to sleep without my bedtime rituals - which would be super annoying to anyone else.
Plus when I drink I never sleep well so being pissed would make it worse not better!

I'm a terrible sleeper so yeah I would hate it. Had a hen party 2 years ago where this was the plan and had to drop out, and refused to go to another one recently because the plan was 2 nights in a glamping pod sleeping about 10 each. To be honest though pretty much everyone else in both didn't bat an eyelid at the suggested sleeping arrangements so I felt like I was in the minority, interesting most people on here think the opposite.

Sharing a room or even a dorm is doable, I can stick headphones in and take sleeping tablets and at least get a few hours but I literally would not (and have not) sleep at all sharing a bed with anyone other than DP (and even then I don't sleep well on holiday when the beds are smaller than our normal one).

Also it's just unnecessary - there are enough hotels with twin bed options, usually for a similar price.

I wouldn't care at all
Did a hen with about 14 girls once shared my bed with a girl I'd met once and the room with 2 I'd never met who never met each other at all. We had a great time and I'm old as boring

Sharing a bed with my own husband is bad enough.

I'd really rather not, but then I don't get the appeal of these overnight celebrations, anyway. One day/night out together is enough for me. I'd rather go back to my own bed at the end of the festivities.

Yep, I’ve done it twice before. Once was in a men’s hostel in Milan with a random girl who was staying at the same hotel as me, which apparently had no record of around six bookings. Got there really late, via coach, so didn’t have much choice as to where to sleep. It was the 80s - yes, I was young and foolish!

Even my kids won't share with me. Apparently I "get cuddly"when I sleep.

Nah, would this wouldn't bother me.
After I night out I could sleep on a chickens lip.
And to be fair, after some of the horrors I've woken up with years ago it could t be much worse than them 🤣🤣

I wouldn’t mind this at all. I’d obviously prefer a bed to myself but for one night (and after a few drinks) I’d be fine with it

I’ve travelled for years, spending so many nights in crowded hostel rooms. And even I say no way to this. Two singles is maybe okay. But a double bed with someone you’ve never met is too much.

No I don't even like to share a room much less this.