To pull out of work charity walk due to shared accommodation?

[Weeksh]

We are travelling to a well known landmark next month for a charity walk. The company are covering the cost of travel and accommodation for one night.

It has been revealed this morning that the accommodation is to be shared rooms at a hostel type accommodation. No issue with hostels, but my issue is having to share a room (bunk beds) with colleagues and navigate the usual bodily functions etc.

Would it be wrong of me to drop out? Booking alternative accommodation isn’t an option - there’s nothing near which is suitable and available.

I'm not sure how you can have no objection to hostels and yet object to sharing a room,

You can have individual rooms in hostels too. My daughter has done that several times.

how long ago did you sign up and know it involved an over night stay?

but basically Op your hearts not in or if you’re going to drop out for this reason and the charity can’t be that special to you… so just make your excuses and drop out (but make a sizeable donation!!)

God no, I am far too old for hostels and room sharing. Do you drive? If so, you might be able to stay somewhere a bit further away and join just for the event.

Yes op you can stay up late and talk about boys/girls you fancy! Such fun.

No, I’d not be doing that op.

well the worse thing that you share with some lunatic?!

And I'd have to arrange something else or at the very worst, it would be all over by morning v missing out on great adventures with some really interesting people.

I'mdecades over 30 so this would be a no.

Honestly the state of some employers that think this is ever ok.

I mean... you could always book Travelodge.
That's secure and absolutely zero chance of anyone you don't know walking in on you....🙄

Absolutely not being unreasonable. Bunk beds! Christ.

It’s not a question of being brave

It’s about avoiding something that you find deeply unpleasant

I don’t want to share rooms, so I don’t share rooms.

When they first began arrangements did they say the overnight stay would be in a hostel (but didn’t explicitly stipulate shared rooms?)

Dont do it
make a sizeable donation to sponser them

Ok. But I decided to be brave and do something I sometimes find unpleasant, and found that whilst in a perfect world I'd probably still prefer my own room, I'd have missed some great experiences if I hadn't.

I would have assumed dorm. accommodation from 'work charity walk' from the outset.

Yes, I don't think charity hike and work trip are the same thing. I'd be very shocked to be asked to share on a business trip, but a shared hostel feels like the expected accomodation for a charity hike.

Sharing wouldn’t bother me at all in this scenario, and I’d fully expect dorm accommodation on this type of trip. I’ve been on work socials before (totally different to business trips) and happily shared too.

Don't do it of you dont want to.

I would never of signed up in the first place. Work is work and what I do in my own time is my affair. I walk for my own pleasure and I give to charities (that I choose), I don't expect friends or other people to give to charity to boost my ego or to make my employer look good on social media. Cancel the whole thing and your employer can give the money it's saved to the charity.

Hell no. There’s no way I’m sharing a room with random colleagues. I share with immediate family and I can tolerate a night with very close friends.
if they expected you to share rooms then that should have been specified from the outset otherwise I would assume that I had my own room and bathroom.
YANBU.

Wouldn't bother me personally to share with another woman. 'Bodily functions' OP? I take it there isn't an open plan loo and shower in the room wouldn't be doing with that. Otherwise I tend to get on with stuff. I've done staying over with other barely known women for several things in recent years and I guess it doesn't faze me personally.
But everyone is different if it bothers you you don't go.

Hard no from me. And that’s me being considerate (as I am a snorer) as much as just not wanting to anyway. The only way I’m sharing accomms with people I’m not in a relationship with or related to is in a natural disaster / everyone in a sports hall type scenario. And even then I’d be trying to throw money at the situation

It wouldn't bother me at all. It's just one night, most of it asleep. I'm 92.

Hell no. I wouldn't even want to share with good friends let alone colleagues.

I'd pull out but in fairness I'd never agree to a charity walk in the first place. Performative fundraising isn't my scene.

Not a chance I’d share with colleagues.

No.

I don't share rooms with colleagues. Just No.