The hotel room arrangements of a mum and teenage son holiday

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Has anyone been away with 15 yo ds? Do you get them own room? Or share twin room?

I travelled a lot with me son at that age. We always got a twin but was really insistent it was two beds as he would refuse if was a double bed!

Thanks. What holidays did you do together ? Looking for ideas !

Twin room definitely.
Double check that twin room is two proper twin beds, some places will have a sofa bed and a double bed.
City break might be a good idea?

Well I was lucky to have a large redundancy payout so we went to Florida, Dubai and New York one year. Other years when budget was smaller we did Egypt all inclusive with desert trip , sand buggies etc, Barcelona with a few days at the big theme park nearby or Lake Garda where we did biking pedalos etc

Istanbul - AirBnB with 2 bedrooms, but we would have shared a twin room if in a hotel.

Recently went to New York with my 15 year old DS. I had (accidentally) booked a double. Ended up paying extra to get a twin room which he and I were far happier with. I still see him as a 5 year old and forget he’s this massive 6 foot teenager!

Book a twin room or look for one bedroom apartments/aparthotels.

I would book a two bed apartment rather than a hotel.

I don't think it would be fair on him to make him share a room with you. I'd definitely go for two bedrooms.

Did interrailing with my son this summer. Twin room in hostel/cheap hotels, sleeper bunks on trains where we were each allocated by the booking system in separate single sex shares in the same carriage.

You could go for a one bed apartment with twin beds in the bedroom, and then he has the choice of sharing your room or sleeping on the sofa bed in the lounge area.

18yo ds & I went on a safari holiday this summer.
Twin beds, no problems.

6y ago, I went with then 15yo & 12yo ds's on a beach holiday to Kos and we shared a triple room.

I went away this summer with my just 13 year old DS and 15 year old DD. We have previously all shared one room when away but this year DS particularly wasn't happy to share a room so I booked a 2 bed apartment ( all inclusive hotel but had this option). DD and I shared one room, DS had the other.

I came on to ask this very same question OP. I’m taking DS13 to New York next month and probably going to book twin room, as suites eyewateringly expensive!

Shared twin room with ds (17) no problems at all and didn't think twice about it.

The last couple of holidays I had with my son before lockdown 2018/19 he was 14/15 and we booked a twin room.

Though when we arrived at the hotel in 2018 there was a double bed not twins and hotel told us they didn’t have any twins available despite us booking one!

In the end I slept with a sheet over me and he surprised on top of his. Not ideal but we managed.

We were booked to go away in 2020 which was cancelled due to Covid and that time I booked a 1 bed apartment with a sofa bed in the lounge

We share if it's just me and him. If it's me, DH and him he has his own room (not his dad)

I travel a lot with two ds now 15 and 17. I look for Airbnbs where we can have a room each or at least boys can share but with a proper bed each as ds2 is a massive wriggler.

However if you we are somewhere for one night we still all share a Premier Inn room and change in the bedroom. We did a couple of sleeper trains this year and I paid for a private carriage and we took it in turns out get changed in the bunks while everyone else looked the other way! It was fine because they were excited about the train anyway.

Next year we're going to New York and I have booked a suite with 2 double beds and a sofa bed so they can argue over that then end up in a double together probably.

I travel for work a bit and on school holidays 15 year old comes too. We get a twin room.

Why? As long as there's a bathroom and you're not together all the time it's fine for a holiday.

Twin room is fine. Why wouldn't it be?

To give my son a bit more privacy I used to shower and get ready then go to the pool bar and have a drink while he showered and got dressed.
Twin rooms are fine just give each other a bit of privacy when it’s needed

That's your opinion; mine clearly differs from yours. OP asked for opinions, so I gave mine.

As for why, do you really need me to spell out why a teenage boy might not be comfortable sharing a bedroom with his mum?

I'd go for a one-bed apartment with a sleeper sofa

You said it wouldn't be fair - I'm genuinely interested why you think it wouldn't be fair for a holiday?
If the option was a twin room or no holiday (for financial or logistical reasons) would you still feel that way? There is a bathroom for privacy to change etc.
Of course it's unrealistic long term.