Carpet or flooring for 5 year old bedroom

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Finally decorating my sons bedroom.

Would you recommend carpet or flooring (ie laminated). It’s a fairly big bedroom (4*6 metre), but at the moment he rarely plays upstairs as he has a playroom downstairs: and I am keen to keep guests downstairs and for only family and overnight guests to use upstairs

We took out old stained carpet and put in laminate in our bedrooms . We put in extra insulation to deal with the noise issue. They are much easier to clean in comparison to carpet.
But they are cold so then you find yourself needing mats and rugs.
Stepping on Lego on a laminate floor is a different experience to stepping on it on a carpet. And a cold floor is not comfortable to play on.

Definitely carpets in bedrooms. We have been in our house 3/4 years now and are saving to replace the laminate in bedrooms with carpet. I love that my lounge/diner is laminate as it soo easy to keep clean (DH and DS are messy buggers) but defo miss carpet in bedrooms. We had just had our hallway, landing and stairs replaced in our old house before we moved and I miss it so much.

Plus with DS's PS4 in his bedroom i swear he is going to come through the ceiling one day - he gets very excited during his f1 games

We have just done our DD's room and put in a lovely new carpet. She now spends ages playing up there and it feels so cosy and clean.

We have carpet in both our boys rooms (cream not our choice) and so far it's great.
They don't eat in their rooms and the littlest one does drawing/painting/ playdoh on the kitchen table so big sources of mess and kept away anyway. We've had a wee accident and an explosive poo (baby) but both cleaned fine without a trace after a bit of vanish and elbow grease.
I would say don't spend a fortune on it and keep it even if it marks as they won't care (although neither of ours have) and replace it when they are older if necessary.
We also have carpet in our playroom and it's fine too although the cars done't whizz as fast as they do in the conservatory.

For reference Our boys are 4 & 12 and the carpets been in for over 7yrs

Carpets. I don't like hard flooring in any room except the kitchen and bathroom. Much more comfortable for children to sit on and play without having rugs that they magically manage to constantly trip over.