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Teens and room sizes on holiday

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loveisagirlnameddaisy · 05/06/2022 14:23

I'm checking out holiday options for this summer; I am often stumped when it comes to selecting rooms in the search tools. When the kids were little, we would obviously opt for one room for the four of us but often the beds are small camp sized things.

We've just come back from a two night stay in York at the Grand hotel and their family room came with a luxurious super king bed for DH and me, but two fairly uncomfortable camp beds for the kids who are now 10 and 13 (13 yo is 6' tall so a camp bed is not suitable).

To posters with teen or pre-teen kids, do you opt for two rooms which really jacks the price up, or stick with family rooms? It's not even clear on some of the holiday options whether there's enough room - they just state 'double room' even though the price is for four people. help!

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loveisagirlnameddaisy · 07/06/2022 20:38

Thanks all to those who replied, will take a look at some suggestions.

We were going for a cruise but have discovered that's not an option as DC12 isn't vaccinated 😩

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loveisagirlnameddaisy · 07/06/2022 20:40

Lucytheo · 06/06/2022 13:17

We have faced this problem with our 9 and 12 year olds - we have been disappointed in some quite fancy hotels that they are expected to share a double sofa bed. as others have said you cant go wrong with Travelodge or Premier Inns - they provide proper single beds as required.

On looking for accommodation for the hotel accommodation in mainland Europe whilst travelling to and from self catering this summer we were pleasantly surprised to find B&B Hotels - www.hotel-bb.com/en - these seem to have a double and two singles and in some cases a double and bunkbeds with the bunkbeds separated from the rest of the room - we shall see what they are like in practice. We have also booked Novotel Suites - novotel.accor.com/gb/discovering-novotel-hotel/suitenovotel.shtml which seem to offer double plus two singles. We are facing the fact that this year is probably the last when we will get away with booking the one room.

We actually have been disappointed with Premier Inn family rooms, the childrens' beds haven't been proper singles and a few times they've been quite uncomfortable. Not sure where we're going wrong if others are getting full sized singles with decent mattresses.

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