Don’t get it

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I am lucky enough to be able to treat our family this year to an all inclusive holiday. Am looking on the Tui website for somewhere that’ll be nice for me, DH & our two sons (4 & 8.) The hotels look amazing, but my gripe is this; as a general rule of thumb they seem to squeeze you all in one big “family” room, or you get a sliding partition between you & the kids. I hate to say it but paying approx £4000 to sleep in the same room as my kids would be a fucking shitshow surely?

I love my kids, but at nighttime I definitely want a door between us & them. How does this work? DH snores like a WWII tank, my youngest has the hearing of a cat & wakes up at the slightest sound & I don’t want to spend the evening tiptoeing around one room whilst I’ve paid ££££‘s for the privilege!

2 bedrooms would be so so much better but I love the idea of all the hotel amenities, pool, kids clubs etc.

What to do? Every time I try any add another room on the website it assumes another adult is coming (so adults total 3.)

Not feeling the love for sleeping in the same room as the kids 😖

You have to pay the £££ for a interconnecting room ar a 2 bed apartment. We normally get a 1 bed apartment and let the kids have the bedroom and we sleep in the living room.

Just had this problem when looking for an all inclusive and we managed to get a 2 bedroom apartment but I spent hours and hours looking on Jet2 and Tui and looking at most hotels that were AI. Plus Jet2 have rather vague room descriptions.

Try looking for a suite, generally you get a bedroom and sofa beds in the lounge and its a bit more spacious. We try and avoid sleeping in the same room as my youngest is super wriggly and chats in his sleep.

When we wanted extra rooms we went to a villa. Yes we lost the AI - but actually who wants to eat the same thing for 7 days (or.more?) And we gained our own private pool. That was such a win.

We had BBQ on terrace.by the pool each night and everyone had a go at cooking.

Yep, we switched from AI to villas for this reason.

Yep, 2 bed apartment or interconnected rooms.

We are a family of 4 (4 and 8) and we pay through the nose for this every year....

Neilson and Mark Warner both do interconnecting rooms, but they are super expensive holidays so we can’t afford them this year!

some family suites are two rooms- we went on a tui one to turkey where there was a solid door between us and the kids bit of the family room.

the slidey door thing is becoming the norm, unfortunately- apparently it makes it easier to turn that bit into a living room section for child free couples out of school holidays.

You find an AI hotel that offera apartment style rooms, usually 1 bedroom and a lounge area with a sofa bed you can use as a 2nd bedroom.

Yes, we switched to villas for the same reason when ours were a similar age. It was less full on and hectic and nice to have a stroll out on a night for food and choose were we wanted to eat without the canteen/whacky races madness of the hotel AI.

There are a couple of hotels I have stayed in that will tick your boxes both in Protaras Cyprus.

Malama Beach and Louis St Elias. Both have one and two bed apartments. They are both great family hotels.

Try this when dc are 18 and 16! I spend hours searching for a 1 bed apt all inclusive where they have decent sofa beds.

I have exactly the same gripe. I actually don’t mind paying extra for an apartment or interconnecting rooms or whatever but my problem is that it’s really hard to search for. The only option seemed to be to click on to each hotel which came up in a search and look at room options.

Paying 4 grand for what you describe would be a room only holiday, not an all inclusive with food, drinks and flights included.

Same here! I hate so few holiday companies let you filter on this - now dc1 is a teen we need it to be a proper bed, not a camp bed.

Where do you find cheap villas? I'm find they're a similar price to AI without the food.

Really? 😳 where do you go?

I think that most parents wouldn't want a separate room in a hotel for a 4 and 8 yr old - hence the issue.

We generally stayed in apart hotels when DS was younger. It sometimes meant a compromise on other aspects such as location or star rating, but absolutely no way we'd be in a room together.
Canary Islands seem to have a good selection.

I'm not sure what you mean?

You mean you pay £4K just for a hotel room for 7 nights?

Not a completely separate room, with a different main ‘front door’, which others could access without me knowing, of course not. But a separate room inaccessible other than by the same front door as I’m using to the room, yes absolutely I want that. My daughter doesn’t sleep in my room at home and I’ve hired cottages and she’s slept in a separate room there too.

I just want a 2 bedroom apartment in an all inclusive resort (and I don’t want to sleep on a pull out bed nor have my daughter sleeping in the living space so I have to tip toe round in the evening). I’m surprised more families don’t want this and therefore it’s not more common and easier to find.

I've just been looking for holidays where the 4 of us don't have to sleep in one room and no one has to sleep on a sofa bed. There are some hotels where that's possible without putting anything odd into the search function. For others select 2 rooms, either each with 1 adult and one child or one with 1 adult, 2 children and the other with one adult. Jet2 can definitely be searched that way.

As a child, a friend of my parents said "I never go on holiday anywhere less comfortable than my home" and it made a big impression on me.