What age did yoir kids get their own hotel room?

[Theteenandme]

What age where your children when they started getting their own hotel room instead of a family room?
Single girl.

What about in youth hostel type places?
We always book a family room when we stay in youth hostels. I feel like the age for this are different in YH?

Two girls have a shared room aged 15 and 12. Both v sensible and I’d always try to pick a small hotel where we’d have adjacent rooms if not interconnected.

Youth hostels in London allow you to book into single sex from 14 (take passports they will want them) I take my daughters (14/16) to them often. I am on a tight budget.

Hotel rooms always SAY 18 earliest. But the reality is I book two rooms, and they share a double and dh and I share a double. Neither daughter wants to share with dh (he is a terrible snorer!) and the hotel never checks given if they damage the cost comes from my credit card anyway.

This is why we don't holiday in hotels! I may consider it next year 13 and 15 if Interconnected. They are rule keepers though. If it was just for a night or two I would consider sharing but it's not a real holiday if you have to share a room with the kids imo (which is why we only go away every few years because apartment/ whole house options are expensive).

We have got separate hotel rooms since early teens - B/G twins who are happy to share.

My DD and DS stayed in their own rooms for the first time at 18 and 21, courtesy of a holiday of a lifetime funded by GPs.

YH were great when they were younger but our holidays were always on a budget so for short breaks etc we were all in one room. Camping they had their own space from the first time we went, probs age 6ish. Even last year I shared a room with 18yo when we went to Mexico.

How would it not be a real holiday if you shared a room with your kids? Surely the holiday is about everything but the sleeping arrangements?

Last summer dcs were 14 and 11, they had a room next door to ours. We went away at February as well, then 15 and 11 (nearly 12) room across the hall to ours. Small hotels each time. We’ve done interconnected rooms since they were school aged when we could . (Left the connecting door open at night).

we’ve always said it’s their holiday too and a couple of “family rooms” holidays which effectively put the kids on sofa beds or camp beds is not really ok. They need proper beds too.

Disagree strongly. We put up with it for uk short breaks but for main holidays we need our own space. So it’s almost always two bed apartments (or cabins on French campsites) or we pushed the boat out this year for two interconnecting rooms in a hotels.

I adore my kids but can’t bear the four in a room thing on proper holidays. Kids don’t like it either especially as it usually means a camp bed or similar for them.

Same! Though if you are in a room with two double beds, you can fit parents and kids in. And lots of hotels will put an extra bed in the room if you ask.

I still share a room with DM on holiday and she’s 73 and I’m 45!

Oh I didn’t mean 4 on a room I was thinking of the male/female spilt

We’ve never really shared a room with our kids on holiday. When they were younger we always self catered, villas/ apartments/ lodges, with at least 2 bedrooms. They were 14 and 18 when they first shared a hotel room in the US, on the same floor as us but several doors down. We’d all much rather have our own space to chill. The only time we might share is a one nighter staying in an airport hotel before an early flight.

We’ve got 3 DC so family rooms rarely worked for us once the youngest was over the sleeping in a travel cot age.

DC are now 15, 13 and 10 and we get two rooms - one twin with an extra bed and a double for us. No issues at all - other than youngest DC loves the internal phones and calls us constantly, which gets a bit trying!

@22O725 parents need a holiday too! It's not just about the kids. Alone time for the grown ups is just as important.