Do any couples sleep in a ‘standard double’ at home.

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On a UK holiday and the rather posh accommodation has twin rooms and a double bedroom. The bed is a standard double and I find it utterly impossible for two people to sleep in. Always rolling together or clinging to the edge. I’ve been sleeping on the floor all week which is far more comfortable. We have a super king sized bed at home so this may seem quite princessy but surely no one sleeps in a standard double at home?

We aren’t big people - both underweight - but my goodness the bed is hell.

We could have had any size bed we wanted as we have basically built our own house and could have changed the bedroom dimensions to fit any bed. We still have a standard double. It's absolutely fine. We do have a kingsize duvet.

With my XH I had to have a superking. He was very overweight and also I hated touching him in the night. (We had two separate duvets as well!).

We have a standard double (we couldn’t actually fit bigger bed in to our bedroom) and it’s fine. When we are on holiday the bed often feels a bit weird and too big as DH feels really far away from me!

We have a standard double, i am just over 5ft and chunky he is 6ft and built like a brick $hit house and we have no problems, He hates it if we go away and the bed is kingsize as he feels i am miles away.

I had a super king, hated that I had to take a boat and a bus to reach my husband, moved to a king. Still needed a moped to reach him so I moved to a double. I can now reach out my arm and touch him and feel so much better for it.
spent 3 weeks in America where the bed was 6f5i wide! HATED IT, I couldn’t sleep at all.

we’d share a single bed if it was left to me.

We had a double at the old house for a while and I couldn't stand it, upgraded to a King Size.
Our current house has more space so we now have a Super King, I can starfish without getting an elbow in the side. I'd have had an Emperor if we could have got it up the stairs!

Heck no . I’m single and sleep in a standard double. No way in a million years would I want another human in there.

Unless you have arms like a T-Rex surely you can reach someone 2ft away from you?

A king is needed as minimum for me and DP. We both starfish at night and he snores so if he was in my ear in a double i may throw him out the window 😂

I’m disabled and have to sleep in certain positions so my joints don’t dislocate.

I do also like a cuddle so having to climb across a bed to do so just isn’t fun.

my ideal sleeping position is my husband on his back and me tucked into his armpit with my knee over his crotch. I’m very lucky that my husband could sleep stood on a pin so he just works around me.

A standard double in a hotel ruins hubby and I’s stay. If thats all they offer i ask for 2 singles, don,t sleep on floor, go To other end of bed. A double is impossible,i,m only 5 ft5, 9 stone and hubby standardtoo, why compromise when you can go superking x

My cousin and spouse have always slept in a double bed ever since they got married donkey's years ago.
We prefer a king-size with separate quilts as we like different weight quilts.

The tiny beds are the worst thing about static caravan holidays.

As much as I love DH, I don't want to be sweatily stuck on to him. He needs a bed longer than him and I need space to sprawl and move, and shift off hot spots through the night.

We have a king size... each
Good sleep quality makes happy couples

We choose the twin rooms and push the beds together, much more comfortable but still able to snuggle up if we want too. In our super king we have a double duvet each too so no arguing over who is getting all the covers.

Me and my DH do, it's fine, no intention of buying anything bigger

We do. It’s fine. I like having a bigger bed when we go on holiday but our bedroom would not accommodate a larger bed.

We sleep in a 4 foot bed, which I think is smaller than the standard double which is 4'6". We have done so for nearly 40 years- we live in a house where the only pace for the bed is 4' wide or you can't open the built in cupboards. It isn't spacious but there is enough room if you don't both starfish and thrash about.

That's interesting. So the beds here were always smaller? My GPs always had a proper double 180 cm and proper single, but that wasn't in uk. The double sells there as 1.5.
It's quite interesting the differences in simple things!

We’ve only had a King size bed for about a year but my goodness I sleep so much better in a bigger bed!

It’s bliss!

For years we only had a standard double, we’d be nudging and kicking each other all night. Then we went on holiday and had a super king size and I vowed to get one asap! I love it and sacrifice bedroom furniture to have the big bed.

Husband and I comfortably slept in a standard double for 22 years. Absolutely no problem.

We sleep (2 of us) in a small double! When we go on holiday and have a king size bed, it feels huge!

A bigger bed if you have room is great, less likely to get a knee in the back.
We have a S.K. when we had a cat, it visited for a hour or two lying landscape style. Took more room than either of us.

I don’t get how people say they are miles away in a superking
if I lie in the middle of it and stretch my arms out, I can touch either side of the edge of the mattress, it’s not ridiculously big

Unless you’ve got legs like a stilt-walker and arms like Mr fucking Tickle, you can ‘spread out’ when alone in a standard double. You will have room to spread out fully alone in a standard double unless you’re of freakish proportions.

They were all smaller than us - which is where the problem lies!

I have the same problem as you, op. We have a king-size bed at home and sleeping in a standard double on holiday seems so cramped.

Does anyone have the same problem with towels?. A standard "bath towel" is just too small - we have "bath sheets" at home.