Premier Inn family rooms - big long cushion.....

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Does anyone else's kids get so amped up by the big bolster cushion in Premier Inn family rooms?!

It's part of the little sofa I think but for our family that sofa is always made up into a single bed, leaving a long, stray bolster cushion that is like catnip to my youngest child.

It's a climbing frame, it's a slide, it's a battering ram, it's a stick/weapon, it's a balance beam, a landing pad, etc.

He is a very high energy kid anyway but these cushions just seem to unleash some sort of "gladiator on steroids laced with ecstacy" type creature. 🤦

I got so bad this evening that I took the thing to reception and begged them to store it away for us until we check out. 😳

Is it just my specific (rogue second born) child that's like this, or are they catnip to other kids too?! My eldest I don't think ever even registered they existed!

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I thought it was just mine (6 years old, verging on feral)

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Ha ha! Yes!
We were in a premier inn a couple of days ago and my 2 DC (a usually very calm 6 year old and wild 3 year old) went mad for the bolster cushion!

Mine is six too. So far no sign of growing out of it. He's been staying in this sort of room a few times a year since he was a baby. You'd think the novelty would have worn off but nope!

It doesn’t get better as they get older, mine do the same at 14 and 18!

Omg yes! My then-9yr old attempted to use it as a slide 🫣 Didn’t really think that one through

YANBU

My kids behave like they are competing on an episode of Gladiators with it! They are 9 and 12…!!!

Why have I never seen this magic cushion? We have never been given it. We always have a double and 2 single beds made up in the room and this has never appeared!

I don’t think I’ve ever been so relieved to hear it’s not just my kids !
I never know if neighbouring rooms will be more disturbed by them battering each other with it or using it as a bridge between the beds or me shrieking ‘FGS put it down! ‘

And you just know the bolsters and throws never ever get cleaned too 😱

My two bloody loved that cushion, it was over a year ago and they still randomly talk about it!

Haha I feel your pain but I'm embarrassed to say I love the big long cushion. I pretend its a massive penis, and have many photos of me waving it around from age 13, to age 40. Can't help it. And yes my stupid twins get equally excited by using the big cushion as a slide, a bridge, or general weapon. Family rooms suck. 🤣 Never a good sleep to be had in a family room.

our two were obsessed as well. They should market them as a soft play

14 and 10 and mine video each other doing more and more crazy things with it. They make so much noise with it too. I always thought it was just my kids.

Reading all these responses I'm glad it's not just mine!

It sounds like most kids would say this is their favourite bit of the stay, and most of the parents their least favourite part. 🤣

Yep it’s been a big hit in our family over the years too 🤣

Just put it up high in the bit where the spare pilows are kept that's what we do.

My boys are 16 and 15. We had a night away last week, they shared the double and i had the sofa bed. I had to confiscate the bolster like they were 5 😂

No?! My kids have been taught to respect other people's property!

I thought it was just mine that did this 😂

We always put it away it fits in the wardrobey bit just put it behind there.

Don't take them to France. French hotels like bolsters. (Admittedly generally they're shorter.)

But what are they FOR? Apart from entertaining kids...

Mine too! He’s 12!

Mine were 12 & 8 last time we stayed at Premier Inn and it was a whole evening of entertainment for them