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Two children sleeping alone in a hotel room!

72 replies

user1486164258 · 03/02/2017 23:51

The hotel is safe and my room is on the same floor as them (possibly next to them), plus continuous monitoring. (two monitors and a phone)

Ages: 8

Thank you!

OP posts:
Squeegle · 04/02/2017 09:14

Better a triple room. PI family rooms are the same price as doubles so you might as well!

Snugglepalace · 04/02/2017 09:16

I wouldn't but then I have a very over imaginative mind and it would go into overdrive if my 8 yr old dd was on her own, I wouldn't sleep throughout the whole trip!

Galena · 04/02/2017 09:22

I've done interconnecting rooms with a younger child. I'm not totally sure, but I'm not convinced I'd do completely separate rooms, unless in a B&B with only 2 rooms so we had exclusive use. I guess it depends on how sensible the children are too. Would they mess around or would they just go to sleep?

Hulababy · 04/02/2017 09:24

At 8y - interconnecting rooms or family room.

Nothing like being at home with their own rooms btw! That's a very familiar setting with a control in who else is in the building!!

Teens - yes. Younger children - no.

ImaLannister · 04/02/2017 12:48

It needed to be said

VintagePerfumista · 04/02/2017 13:23

Well, thankfully MNHQ agreed with those of us who reported your uncalled for attack and deleted it.

Floggingmolly · 04/02/2017 13:26

Of course not. Why are you even considering this?
How do you propose to continuously monitor through the night?? What bollocks Hmm

DJKKSlider · 04/02/2017 13:30

It would entirely depend on my proximity to the children. If I took my own monitor from home and I was next door then i'd consider it.
If I was any further than next door and I don't have my own monitor, relying on the hotels, then no I wouldn't.

Id just book a family room, even the Travel lodges have a double bed and two singles in a family room.

RacoonBandit · 04/02/2017 13:38

Pleased to see MNHQ deleted that comment.

At no point did it need to be said Hmm

I doubt OP will be back and I cannot blame her.

ImaLannister · 04/02/2017 13:39

I basically said what floggingmolly said. It wasn't even bad what I said, you just didn't like to hear it. I don't think negligence is acceptable, leaving 2 young children alone all night in a hotel room, anything could happen.

PurpleAlerts · 04/02/2017 13:39

Most hotels would not allow this is. One of the people staying in a twin room usually has to be over 18.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 04/02/2017 13:42

It wasn't even bad what I said

Actually yes it was. Not only was it against MNHQ guidelines, but it was derogatory towards people with MH problems.

RacoonBandit · 04/02/2017 13:43

Iam the 2 comnents are nothing alike.

Yours was a PA and the other isnt hence why it is still there and yours was deleted.

ineedamoreadultieradult · 04/02/2017 13:45

Adjoining room no problem otherwise no. I would ask for a family room or a double room with roll away bed or similar. Call the hotel they will try their best to accommodate. If your all willing to share one double bed tell them we have done that a few times but normally they have an upper age limit for this.

WeeKelpie · 04/02/2017 13:47

I would and ds has slept In a room with 2 other children when on a sports trip (coach either side)

Yes. We've had that as well.

WeeKelpie · 04/02/2017 13:47

Most hotels would not allow this is. One of the people staying in a twin room usually has to be over 18

Not true.

ImaLannister · 04/02/2017 13:50

I obviously didn't mean it in MH terms, That's people just looking too much into it.
But if you want to sugar coat leaving 2 kids alone then crack on. Hotels don't allow it for a reason.

ImaLannister · 04/02/2017 13:53

Was never intended as a personal attack. I guess I will phrase my words better next time.

specialsubject · 04/02/2017 16:07

No, not because of kidnap risk or other abuse, but because most hotel rooms are not designed to be proof against how small kids dick about in strange places.

Kettle, hairdryer, soft porn on the TV, window, jumping off things, locking themselves in or out...

tweedledid · 04/02/2017 16:53

I remember me and my brother having our own room wherever we went. I would have been around 8 when we had a room each in Amsterdam.
We were well travelled and use to it and very aware of what to do in an emergency.

I guess each child is different.

KingMortificadosMistress · 04/02/2017 23:45

The doors are locked so dc can't get to you or they open them and are wandering communal hall to get to you.

^This x 1 million. So NO unless you have interconnecting rooms.

An 8 year old waking up in the night who goes to look for mummy in a communal hall way? Who the hell could be passing through? Drunk people, malicous people, opportunist paedophiles.

But forget all of that imagine a frightened 8 year old who has let the door close behind him not knowing where to go, which was his/her room.

Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

Only if you have interconnecting doors that are left open or not at all

KingMortificadosMistress · 04/02/2017 23:47

And actually long empty hotel corridors at night aren't good places even if you are an adult woman alone to be honest - even in the nicest hotels - late at night it can be a bit creepy.

For an 8 year old it would be hell. They'd never be able to watch The Shinning without having a nervous breakdown.

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