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Family rooms allocated with ignorance

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Nannasoo · 31/12/2023 04:15

Maybe naive but when booking a family room in a hotel with 2 twins under 2 and room for 2 travel cots you would surely expect a room with bath and not shower? You live and learn that sometimes you deal with idiots. An offer of 'renting' a baby bath added insult to injury to deal with 2 babies and fill it from a shower...Sadly a full hotel and no alternative and unapologetic over a stay cut short and no discount. So it may should silly but double check the room will have a bath when booking stays. I so want to let rip on Trip Advisor but dont want to be blacklisted to stay again minus grandchildren as a very unique resort.

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Rewis · 31/12/2023 09:22

Salacia · 31/12/2023 09:10

I’m pregnant (without a bath) and it hasn’t occurred to me a bath is required - presumed we’d just use a baby bath with shower water until they get too big then sort some sort of shower situation. Bit nervous now after reading this thread that I’ve already committed a parenting faux pas!

Can see why a bath would be easier with twins but as others have said that’s on you to check when you book as hotels increasingly have showers only. I hope you weren’t as rude to the staff’s faces as you have been about them on this thread.

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You'll be fine. I live in a place where bathtubs are rare (some older flats still have them but most have been renovated to walk in showers or bath was never installed if houses were built after the 70's) and the kids are still clean 😊

Delassalle · 31/12/2023 09:24

Nannasoo · 31/12/2023 04:15

Maybe naive but when booking a family room in a hotel with 2 twins under 2 and room for 2 travel cots you would surely expect a room with bath and not shower? You live and learn that sometimes you deal with idiots. An offer of 'renting' a baby bath added insult to injury to deal with 2 babies and fill it from a shower...Sadly a full hotel and no alternative and unapologetic over a stay cut short and no discount. So it may should silly but double check the room will have a bath when booking stays. I so want to let rip on Trip Advisor but dont want to be blacklisted to stay again minus grandchildren as a very unique resort.

It's down to you when you book to check the facilities available or to make special requests.

MillarMountVandal · 31/12/2023 09:25

Nannasoo · 31/12/2023 04:15

Maybe naive but when booking a family room in a hotel with 2 twins under 2 and room for 2 travel cots you would surely expect a room with bath and not shower? You live and learn that sometimes you deal with idiots. An offer of 'renting' a baby bath added insult to injury to deal with 2 babies and fill it from a shower...Sadly a full hotel and no alternative and unapologetic over a stay cut short and no discount. So it may should silly but double check the room will have a bath when booking stays. I so want to let rip on Trip Advisor but dont want to be blacklisted to stay again minus grandchildren as a very unique resort.

The rooms weren't 'allocated with ignorance', they were booked that way. Its entirely your own fault. If you're booking a room online, the room type will have facilities listed. If you booked over the phone, you should've asked is there a bath.

Honestly, talk about first world problems. Your desperation to 'blame' the hotel for your own oversight is beyond ridiculous - and then hassling the poor staff who were there working over Christmas! Utterly shameful behaviour.

anothernamechangeagainsndagain · 31/12/2023 09:26

Most hotels only have showers these days. A family room would have beds for 4 typically whereas a double room with space for two travel cots sounds more like a superior double room thus may not be designed with families in mind.

I'll be honest, I'm always annoyed by rooms with baths as I hate climbing in and out wet and slippery, I'm sure I'm not alone. My kids showered from 1 years old

WhamBamThankU · 31/12/2023 09:27

You do sound out of touch with what hotels are currently like, especially family rooms. You also sound pretty awful calling staff idiots for not being mind readers.

FettleOfKish · 31/12/2023 09:28

Worked in travel all of my adult life, I've received 100s of requests for walk-in showers where people can't manage to climb over a bath, but I don't recall a single request for a bath.

Unless you're staying in a big luxury suite with room for both then walk-in showers are increasingly the norm in hotel rooms. Some don't have any baths at all at this stage.

If you complained to me as you've complained here I'd think you were bonkers, and the fact you seemingly cut the stay short blows my mind. You wouldn't get any discount or refund from me either.

belgiumchocolates · 31/12/2023 09:28

Bloody hell ignorance and idiots? Serously OP, the onus is on you to check and book a room with a bath if you want one as everyone has said on this thread.

Not the hotels fault at all. Did you leave early for this reason, I find this very odd.
Do the hotel a favour and take your custom elsewhere it sounds like you were rude to them which they can do without

betterangels · 31/12/2023 09:28

You're calling other people idiots when you didn't bother checking if the room fit your requirements. Charming.

YABU to assume anything let alone a bath instead of a shower.

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 31/12/2023 09:30

They are not mind readers. If I’m away for a couple of nights I’ll tend to skip the bath routine for my babies, I just give them a sponge down instead. So for me it would be a non-issue. How are they meant to know unless you check with them while booking??

Calling them idiots is very rude too. I’d call the person booking names as they should have checked the facilities..

SkankingWombat · 31/12/2023 09:33

It's a bit odd to refer to Under 2s as babies and YABVU to either assume there would be a bath without checking or that the hotel would instinctively know you required one. Most family rooms have massive walk-in rain showers IME, which DCs love the novelty of and makes it easy to just all shower together when they're toddler aged.

The hotel is BU to charge extra for providing a baby bath. This should be complementary IMO. It is a lump of moulded plastic that doesn't really suffer wear and tear and should be within the same category of freely-provided equipment as high chairs. However, a toddler isn't going to fit into one anyway, so it isn't relevant in your situation.

KombuchaKalling · 31/12/2023 09:33

I don’t really see the massive issue? I have baby twins and we often shower them. You should have requested a bath when booking and bear in mind lots of of hotels don’t have baths just showers

The renting of a baby bath was a joke though. Why would you pay?

Natsku · 31/12/2023 09:38

Salacia · 31/12/2023 09:10

I’m pregnant (without a bath) and it hasn’t occurred to me a bath is required - presumed we’d just use a baby bath with shower water until they get too big then sort some sort of shower situation. Bit nervous now after reading this thread that I’ve already committed a parenting faux pas!

Can see why a bath would be easier with twins but as others have said that’s on you to check when you book as hotels increasingly have showers only. I hope you weren’t as rude to the staff’s faces as you have been about them on this thread.

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Baths are definitely not required. They are pretty much non-existent in my country, we just baby baths until they grow out of them and then shower (also used the shower since they were newborns when I couldn't be bothered to fill up the baby bath)

biter · 31/12/2023 09:38

I'd have showered with my babies - one at a time. Quite fun 🤩

Not something I'd get het up about.

C152 · 31/12/2023 09:42

This is unfortunate, and I do sympathise with you, but I don't think there was any ignorance on the part of the hotel. Many hotels have removed baths in favour of showers; it's been a thing for a number of years. Maybe they take less time to clean or the bathroom can be smaller, who knows? I always check before booking, as I prefer a room with a bath. When travelling with my DS when he was younger, I always took a plastic blow up baby bath with me. Took a little extra space in the luggage, but was worth the effort.

arethereanyleftatall · 31/12/2023 09:42

😂😂😂 Yabu. As you can see from the responses op, yours is an embarrassing post.
To cut a holiday short because you have to shower a toddler rather than bath them is up there with bat shittery.

Please tell us what else you complain about.

Have you ever complained there's no bath when you take them swimming?

Castleview6 · 31/12/2023 09:44

I think it’s you OP that looks like an idiot not the hotel staff (what a horrible attitude you have). A shower for toddlers is fine and, you’re that bothered you should have requested a bath when booking. My guess is they probably could have moved you but you sound a nasty person so they didn’t help and were pleased you cut your visit short.

Ejismyf · 31/12/2023 09:45

I'd of just stuck them in the sink but we use to take ours in the shower with us from when they were babies, tho I know some two year olds may hate that.

Willmafrockfit · 31/12/2023 09:46

i had to shower my dd aged about 7 months, when staying in butlins, she sat and i showered her
we coped

ChedderGorgeous · 31/12/2023 09:47

Nannasoo · 31/12/2023 04:15

Maybe naive but when booking a family room in a hotel with 2 twins under 2 and room for 2 travel cots you would surely expect a room with bath and not shower? You live and learn that sometimes you deal with idiots. An offer of 'renting' a baby bath added insult to injury to deal with 2 babies and fill it from a shower...Sadly a full hotel and no alternative and unapologetic over a stay cut short and no discount. So it may should silly but double check the room will have a bath when booking stays. I so want to let rip on Trip Advisor but dont want to be blacklisted to stay again minus grandchildren as a very unique resort.

This is only your fault for not checking properly.

Doris86 · 31/12/2023 09:47

I don’t think we’ll be seeing the OP again.

ClairDeLaLune · 31/12/2023 09:49

Itwasafterallallaboutme · 31/12/2023 05:31

All older Premier Inns have baths. I understand that you might prefer a higher class of establishment, but I am disabled so we nearly always stay in Premier Inns as there is nearly always a standard of cleanliness and comfortableness that they don't fall below!

Ooh yes @Itwasafterallallaboutme you can’t beat a Premier Inn imo! You know what you’re getting, the beds are always comfy, and the breakfast is fantastic 😊

SquashPenguin · 31/12/2023 09:49

My first baby is due in May. We ripped our bath out last year because I hate them. Clearly going to have to burn the house down and start all over again now. If only there was another way to wash a baby…..

SENDhelp2023 · 31/12/2023 09:51

Its not the hotel’s fault, you need to check these things

arethereanyleftatall · 31/12/2023 09:51

This thread has brought back a fond memory for me of showering and my then dh would pass me my tiny baby for a cuddle as they loved feeling the warm spray on their back. If you've got the right size shower space and can adjust the height of the spray it can be lovely for them.

ClairDeLaLune · 31/12/2023 09:52

YABU to call them idiots, that’s rude and undeserved. They didn’t install the bathroom!

Also, being a pedant, I don’t like the term “very unique”. By definition things are either unique or not unique, you can’t have different levels of uniqueness!