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What age did you start booking separate hotel room for kids?

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Yopy · 20/02/2023 10:15

When looking for family room so many have a double bed and double sofa bed. My kids are 11 and 13 so I feel they are too old to share sofa bed for a week. Maybe we need two rooms and one adult and one child in each room ?

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Hersetta427 · 20/02/2023 22:03

We haven't yet - dd is 15 and ds11. We always book a family room with two separate bedrooms. Costs a bit more but everyone still happy with that - booked the same for this summer too.

BookShark · 20/02/2023 22:33

DD is 13 and we're doing separate rooms for the first time this summer - city hotel rather than resort if that makes any difference. She's just fed up of uncomfortable sofa beds, which is fair enough.

Although the hotel wouldn't let us book her a room on her own, so technically she and I are booked in one room, and DH is in another. We won't be spending much time in the rooms anyway, so hopefully it'll be fine.

89ghud · 21/02/2023 08:38

Depends on the holiday, our last all inclusive when they were 11 and 8 we got them a separate room, our Florida holiday this year we are sharing largely due to the cost but also because we will be spending very limited time in the room, it is a proper king bed for them at least rather than sofa bed (same sex too).

89ghud · 21/02/2023 08:40

Just to add the room type we had last year was through Tui, when you search room options there was a "2 bed" option so it was almost like a little apartment but without kitchen area, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom coming off a corridor, it was perfect.

dotty2 · 21/02/2023 09:01

We booked with TUI last year - 4 star in Italy. When we booked (2 rooms) we had to specify 1 adult and 1 child in each room - DDs were 14 and 16. We thought we'd ask the hotel to sort the beds out when we arrived so we could separate. In practice, when we arrived, the hotel had given us adjacent rooms, one with a double bed and one with twin beds, and seemed to have assumed that was what we would do and TUI's booking policy is nonsense. It's obviously a bit of a risk, but I imagine that's what a lot of hotels would do.

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