Genuinely looking for some perspective, as I'm overtired, can't sleep, and a little exasperated with this branch of the in-laws at the best of times - so there's a good chance I'm being a bit of an arse!
Do you think it is feasible for guests to be given a bed in the living room when it's the only communal room in the flat? So they cannot go to bed until everyone else in both families chooses to go to bed? Or is this unrealistic, impractical, and said guests should really have got a hotel for the sake of all concerned?!
I am one of said guests, and I would really like to be able to go to bed when I fucking want after a long day sightseeing - but I do understand that other people (e.g. DH and his brother, who we are visiting) would like to be able to stay up and chat. I guess if we were in a hotel there would be no option but to do that at all. But both the kids and I would be a lot better off! The kids have got a single bed to share which I also don't think is entirely feasible. They are 4 and 7, and would absolutely just kick each other and argue all night. As it is, I am in the single with DD2 and DD1 has been up till bloody 11pm then sleeping in the living room with DH. She's loving being up with her cousins all evening but I'm dreading trying to reset her after three nights of this. I'm getting kicked in the back all night and am now just generally cranky and can't sleep. So there's a chance my perspective is off! I am not sure if the sleeping arrangements were explained to DH before we came - I would certainly have made alternative suggestions if I'd known! An airbed in this room plus a single airbed in the study would have saved things - although one of us would have had to sleep in the living room!