Premier Inn question about guest

[Workinghardeveryday]

We need to visit a Premier Inn in July for a family event.

As a family of 5 (dp myself, dd16, dd11, ds11), we will need to book 2 rooms. The cost is nearly £300 for one night!

Can I just get a family room sleeping 4 and 2 of the kids share?

I just think it’s very expensive as it is a Premier Inn at the end of the day....

Air B&B depends how you’re using it in my experience. I’m willing to pay more for PI if it’s a quick stop - guaranteed quality and facilities (although a couple of nasty surprises over the years mean I do double check the details for each as occasionally PI take over other hotels and haven’t quite adjusted it entirely), easy check in, no need to worry about check out or cleaning, no worries about being reviewed etc. Air B&B can be way more faff than it’s worth.

I must have done well getting a premier inn for £28 just after Xmas!

we are a family of 4 and stopped getting 1 family room when Ds was 14 and dd was 16. Ds had a very uncomfortable night as the 3rd bed was not designed for anything more than a 10 year old (Ds is really small fir his age). There is no way you’d fit 5 people in one of those rooms unless you have a toddler in between the two parents.

When we stayed in a Premier Inn near to where Dd now lives they were very happy for her to join us for breakfast. We just paid fir an extra person.

You can give your room number if you like, but most restaurants allow walk-ins, too. My best friend still works at the Brewers Fayre attached to the PI where we worked through college and is now the restaurant manager. I checked with her on this, and she said they could quite easily just book directly with us (the Brewers Fayre) and we'd assume they're a local family coming for breakfast, not somebody staying overnight.

Also, she said it's very unlikely they'd do an age check on the 16 year old and would likely bundle it in as a free child. It's a buffet style breakfast which gets binned afterwards anyway as it can't be saved, so one child who isn't likely to eat platefuls of food makes little difference to them.

Hello sorry to jump in on your post but we family of 4 are staying in premier inn next month. Kids are 13 and 16. Will it be a problem with 16 year old I booked in line do they check age ?

It sounds like Premier Inn is not suitable for you.

Have a look on TripAdvisor for hotels that have family rooms.

I’d very much doubt it.

I'd be selfish and have the 2 youngest share the double, dad and 16yr old on the singles and I'd have a room to myself 😁

Where in the country is it OP?

We paid £150 for a city centre weekend Premier Inn room. The last London one I stayed in was cheaper as there is more competition. £66 pp b&b isn't bad value.

Premier Inns have got really expensive. I paid £160 for one night last year to drop my son off, and it was well outside the city centre (about 5 miles). I think they knew it was uni drop off weekend. We stayed there once before and it was £70!

However, it has got worse. Now you have to book two nights at that hotel even though it's not a city centre location. When we go to collect him we'll have to stay somewhere further away where you can still book for one night.

It’s supply and demand. They are like airlines and prices increase as the hotel gets fuller. So they ‘knew’ it was drop off weekend because the hotel filled up.

When we found all the Premier Inns had got to silly money that same weekend, doing the same as you, I combed the booking websites to find a room in another decent-looking hotel. I figured once we were spending over £150 for one room in a Premier Inn we might as well go somewhere a bit more exciting! We ended up staying at a nice pub with rooms that was less money. But far more effort to find.

Well yes people have three kids - and therefore they should expect to pay more when travelling 🙄otherwise that logic could be applied to families who have 4, 5, 6 kids!

We have an 11, 9 and 4 year old and squeezed into a travel lodge family room, the bigger kids had a single each and the 4 yr old came in with us. This would probably be easier in a premier Inn as the beds are bigger from memory, but your kids are practically adults.

I agree with you @nomistake, but I will probably get shot down in flames for this.

Working hard everyday - would suggest you ring the premier inn that you are staying in direct as quite a few have interconnecting rooms , therefore you could request one and at least the children could be in the room next door with door slightly ajar.

Exactly. I mean where does it stop? Why isn't there a hotel room that accommodates a family of 5 plus grandparents and a dog?

@WooNoodle
thanks, such a helpful post really.
so how many kids have you got?

If you book two rooms, then give them a ring they will allocate you to adjacent rooms with an interconnecting door if that's available. It makes travelling as a family a lot easier.

I don't know why more hotels don't have interconnecting rooms.

@WooNoodle because that would be a little odd? Not sure id want to sleep with my parents in the same room now.... if I was in a hotel I would like to sleep in the same room as my 3Dds however!

Lots of independent b&b type places have rooms that sleep 5 I found. Occasionally you can get a rollaway bed in a 4 person room. But some hotels count 16 as adult remember

I have one but I am in a "blended" family situation where we need 2 rooms when we go away. We just accept it as part of being a larger family. Same as my parents did (again larger family).