How do you find hotels with connecting rooms or two bedroom suites?

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My kids are now 13 and 10 and we've decided its too much to all squash into one hotel room for a week. We've done Tui a few times which was great when the kids were little but the family rooms are just too tiny for us all now.
A quick look seems to show that a Villa is out of our budget, plus i don't want to have to hire a car to get around...?

Can anyone recommend a way to find either hotels with 2 bedroom suites (that don't cost an absolute fortune) or hotels with connecting rooms? Have tried booking.com type sites and they don't seem to have a filter for connecting rooms or hotels with 2 bedroom aparthotel style accommodation?

How does everyone else do it as their kids get older? Do you just book two hotel rooms and put an adult in with each kid? That seems like a weirdly separate way for us to do it and presumably there's no guarantee you would get your rooms next to each other so you might be at the other side of a resort? Advice needed please!

FYI - we're thinking Greece, Italy or Croatia if that helps?

I don’t know why they don’t have it as a filter option on the like of jet 2. We have stayed at Ali Bey and Hydarpasha palace in Turkey and we had two rooms and two bathrooms. A duplex style room in both. I would rather stay at home than stay four of us in one room, with one bathroom 🤣🤣🤣

We have done 2 room hotel rooms the last few years. Basically a bedroom and living room with a sofa bed. We sourced them ourselves before but this year I used Jet2 holidays WhatsApp and they found 3 suitable options

I can also recommend hotel du lac et du parc in Riva and hotel Lone in Rovinj (sister hotel to grand hotel). Other hotels we have stayed at with two bedrooms/ connecting rooms include sun gardens outside Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sani hotels in Greece and Rikli Balance at lake bled in Slovenia.

On booking.com there are a couple of filters that might help. Filtering for family rooms will bring up both hotel rooms for 4, but also suites. Filtering for apartments will bring up aparthotels as well as Airbnb type apartments. For interconnecting rooms, you need to search for interconnecting rooms in the smart filter box and it will then filter for you. Often you need to look in the "property questions and answers" section of the hotel info page to verify that it has connecting rooms and you might need to contact them directly to book it.

If you want two normal hotel rooms as close as possible to each other there is also a check box for that.

Air bnb, I have the same issue trying to find a two bedroom and my DC is still very young, but it's more relaxing when they can have their own room so even adjoining rooms isn't an option

Find the hotels you like on booking.com ( or similar site) then find the hotels own website and phone them
Make the booking then directly with them and get an email confirmation. That’s what we have always done if we wanted interconnecting rooms.
Some countries have apartments in hotels ( like in Thailand and a lot of Asia ) those will be listed as hotels but if you put on booking.com 2/3 bed self catering inc breakfast ( etc ) it basically means you are recommended an apartment. Again you can check this on the hotels own website

Thanks for this. My ideal would be a Greek island so will take a look

Not averse to Turkey but I have already been there a few times. Looking to try somewhere else this time

We had this a few years ago and the kids hated being on a sofa bed in the lounge. The whole place was tiny so they were basically next to the kitchen counter and it felt really weird. The age they are now I think we need two separate distinct bedrooms. Gives them somewhere to retreat to and relax as well during the day if they need a siesta!

Lots of hotels do 2 bed apartments within the complex.

click on Tui or jet2 or wherever and select room type (often 2 rooms and then sift through the 2 separates).

Aparthotels are hotels that have SC apartments within them so that’s a good place to start.

Agree with others - select 1 room, 4 people, then look at what comes up. It will include 2-bedroom apartments, but also (annoyingly) family rooms and silly arrangements like 2 x studio apartments. I don't understand why they don't add a specific filter as this must be such a common request!

My preferred arrangement is a 2-bedroom apartment rather than inter connecting rooms as it means each person can go to bed/get up when they want without disturbing their roommate.

These are actual hotel rooms, no kitchen and both often have their own bathroom. Separate access to the balcony or terrace.
They are usually classed as suites.

I really hate how hard hotels make this.

And he search engines which suggest one bedroom places with a sofa bed are two bed also really irk me

We stayed at the Mitsis Norida in Kos and had a room with double bed and a separate room off it with twin beds which worked well. There is a sister hotel next door (Mitsis Blue Domes) which may have similar too.

Sao Raphel Suites in the Algarve last year and Dunas Suites and Villas in Gran Canaria the year before.
Similar in Croatia this year.

Yes this seems to be common, they say it's a 2 bed suite but when you click into the details it's clearly a sofa bed in the lounge jobby, not 2 separate bedrooms

sofa beds are great for small children but a teen not so much anymore.

Descriptions are often so unclear until you scroll down to figure all things out

We actually did 3 years of s/c between DD being 12-15 and then booked two rooms.

Also quite often the way it's laid out doesn't really work if you have children who go to bed earlier than their parents (hardly unusual) as the sofa bed is in the living space. As an adult, I am not sleeping on a sofa bed on holiday!

Recently been to Greece with three kids. In Athens we stayed in apartments (Absolute Athens Apartments) which were ideal - double plus a twin and a sofabed which you wouldn't need, plus kitchen, living room, balcony. On Naxos the Ippokampos hotel had a family apartment that was a double/triple (the third bed was an optional pull out bed), a shared bathroom, a double room and a joint balcony across both rooms, it also had kitchenette facilities (fridge/sink/kettle/crockery) in the kids room.