4 people in one hotel room

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I'm trying to book a night in a hotel near Manchester airport and am baffled to find that the only way for our family of 4 (2 adults, an 8 year old and a 4 year old) to do this seems to be to get a room with 2 double beds. It's sometimes a proper double bed and a double sofa bed on offer, sometimes 2 full double beds. I don't understand how we're supposed to arrange ourselves - I get that there are technically 4 spaces in the beds but who wants it as two doubles rather than a double and two singles?! I had similar problems before booking in Edinburgh and in Germany. AIBU to think that most people booking 4 people in a room would want 1 double and 2 singles instead of 2 doubles or am I missing something?

I think yes, you are being unreasonable to not understand this.

I don't understand how we're supposed to arrange ourselves

Adults share, kids share OR and adult shares with a kid OR book another room and have one adult and one kid per room.

I don't understand why you are struggling with this.

Are adults not related?

If you truly can't arrange an adult couple and their two young children in two double beds, should you be organising travel at all? Or indeed anything?

How can you not understand this? It's a completely normal set up.

You arrange yourselves adults in 1 and kids in the other or 1 adult and 1 child in each.

We have stayed in a Travelodge with two pull out singles.

Lids bunk up otherwise or we have had boys in one girls in the other. It’s not difficult.

The “double” beds in hotels are always large and with firm mattresses that mean even if you’re sharing with someone, you don’t need to go anywhere near them if you don’t want to! I’ve shared with DD in hotel rooms and essentially we were in two singles, just close together.

This is a pretty standard set up

I don't understand how we're supposed to arrange ourselves

Adults in one bed, kids in the other. Or one adult and 1 child per bed. If you're all family and happy to share a room, what is the conundrum you are having? Which combination of people could not share a double bed for one night.

I have 3 teens, not all same sex, they are still fine sharing for a night if needed. Try finding rooms for 5 people, or more, that's when it becomes tricky!

Premier inn have rollways cot singles - 1 double and 2 rollways for a family room.

Your kids are little so it's fine to put them in a bed together. When they get to teens they might not want to share with their siblings so much.

We now get interconnected rooms as none of us get any sleep with 4 us in one room, plus privacy. Very few hotels offer this too. DC are big enough to need their own space but too young to have an entirely separate room.

Is this your first time in a hotel...?! This is a normal set up, your kids are young and can share, it's one night. If you can't "understand the set up" you'll have to book 2 separate rooms with an adult and child in each.

This really made me laugh😂

Our kids share, you might get 2+1+1 in a B&B but I doubt it in a chain hotel.

I think that they should bring back the Krypton Factor. It was a great show!

My kids have a huge age gap and still fine to share. They're usually just hugely excited by the whole thing (and the prospect of hotel breakfast). I'm just grateful for the likes of Premier Inn as we could never afford hotels otherwise.

I think it is the sofabed double plus normal double set up which keeps the room flexible and therefore cheap.

I'm in the minority but I'm with the OP on this. There is a lack of options.

2 double beds were OK when the children were small but we have 2 teenagers now who don't want to share a bed. They're both girls but it would be even more tricky if they were a boy and girl.

Our last holiday was in a cottage, simply to have enough space and rooms. I couldn't find any hotels with a 2+1+1 set up.

I've just booked an overseas hotel holiday but it's a family room and all the reviews are saying they are single beds pushed together. I hope they are. My kids will be pushing them apart for sure. Hopefully we'll only need to ask for another duvet when they become single beds.

Why would hotel's have multiple rooms with a double bed and 2 singles though? The configuration of 2 doubles/double and double sofa bed/ double, single, trundle bed allows much more flexibility with bookings and importantly space in the room during the day or for guests that don't need all the beds

Surely for one night only, the kids share a double bed or each adult shares with one of the children. Not that hard is it?

2 double beds were OK when the children were small but we have 2 teenagers now who don't want to share a bed. They're both girls but it would be even more tricky if they were a boy and girl.

Now they're teens we book 2 rooms. But the OP's children are younger, family rooms are fine (for one night).

We’ve very rarely found a double and 2 single set up in hotels - it’s nearly always 2 doubles - my dds just share - there’s a big age gap and one’s a teen but as she says, she’d rather a nicer hotel / any hotel and share a bed than a worse / no holiday.

The OP's children are 4 and 8 though. Mine and 10 and 7 and still happy to share but we'd have to book a second room at some point in the future.

We stayed in a premier in near Glasgow airport, family room. Had a double and 2 singles as standard.

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