Hotel booking sites for adjoining rooms for two adults and two teens?

[Broomingek]

Hello
Once again I'm going loopy trying to book hotels for four of us - two teens and two adults.

Adjoining rooms are available in most big hotels I've stayed at but it never seems to be an option for booking or you have to contact them directly.

Family rooms seem to either be two doubles or king and sofa bed which isn't fair on the kids really.

Does anyone know if there is a hotel booking website which specifically looks at this? As mine are over 12 they are adults in lots of places so even more confusing.

I would usually book direct but takes so long to look through everything and want a shortuct.

We’ve never requested adjoining rooms, but whenever we’ve booked it’s what we’ve always been given, I’ve always assumed that the booking agent has a logarithm which can do it automatically, hence asking the ages of the kids flags up an alert for teens and computer says ‘stick em next to parents’! Maybe we’ve just been lucky though!

I don’t think there is one unfortunately. You need to be careful with sleeping arrangements - most require u16 to be in with adult so you’d have to divide and conquer. Some of the holiday villages have condos which might work for, depending on the style of holiday you are looking for. I’ve got two teens and last year had two rooms next to each other, not interconnecting and not guaranteed. Tbh we ignored the room allocation issue.

I have a feeling this is an option on one of the booking sites, I think Expedia, but most often not as you say.

Once mine were over 12 I generally booked one double and one twin, and then put a note on the booking asking that they were as close to each other as possible. We are staying at an airport hotel next Saturday night and we have this setup - my DC are 12 and 14 and I'm happy for them to be in a twin by themselves even if not immediately connecting. They'll have their phones and I've told them always to lock the door from the inside and put on the chain.

However, I'll generally try and avoid hotels if I can book a Vrbo or aparthotel instead.

Why on earth has my reply been hidden?? I was just telling the OP to book a twin for the kids and put a note on the booking for interconnecting if possible, and that Expedia allows for filtering for interconnecting but Booking.com doesn't which is annoying.

Let me know if you find a solution OP! We usually book online then phone and request next door rooms. Sometimes it’s not been possible, so we divide into one teen and one adult per room. Not ideal however!

If you make a booking with Booking com you then can communicate directly with the premise.

Thanks all - business idea for someone! Will try Expedia xx

Jet2 WhatsApp is great for very specific room requirements. Try them

I try to phone or email the hotel direct to ask the rooms are adjacent. One time I didn’t do that and regretted it! I had booked with Mark Warner, and despite me having made it crystal clear that one room was for a 15 year old, they had put him in a totally different block!! So on arrival we had to depend on the reception staff to sort it out for us, luckily they could but it could easily have been a big issue.

Depends on what you are looking for OP, we have the same issue DD16 and DSS21 so have managed to find several AI hotels that have more apartment style facilities. Jet2 and BA are ok for this.

I agree the search function should cover this! Likewise there's no way of specifying you want a 2-bedroom apartment on any of the holiday websites as far as I know. So you have to scroll past all the "2 x studio apartments" search results that you're not interested in.