Vent: I don't want to share a bed with my teenage son, thank you

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Looking for 1 nights accommodation so I enter our details - 1 adult, 1 child (13), 1 room. You can drill down and select the number of beds, but so many sites list all this hits with just a double bed. Why are they assuming that and adult and a child will share a bed?
I mean I would if we had to, I don't have anything against it, and we'd just laugh and make a pillow wall, but it does seem an odd default.

And fuck me, it's expensive!

@WhatsitWiggle thats if you have the option to select the option. Its not always clear ime.
eg is a sofa bed fir two or two singles etc….

You can book twin rooms or a connecting room each which is obvs more expensive, I don’t think most parents feel they need a pillow wall though if they do need to share with their kid.

That’s why we now tend to only use the premier inn. Cheap enough, quality is good and we’ve had less issues like the ones on this thread.
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Tell me more about hotels that have a double bed and two singles in family rooms, they all seem to be a normal double and a double sofa bed which DS 10 is starting to feel awkward about sharing with his sister. Last time I ended up sharing the sofa bed with her while DH and DS had the king size but it was clearly not meant for an adult!

Book a Premier inn family room.

I get this. Recently booking a hotel I had the same problem. We would share a bed but would rather book a twin. I found there were quite a few hotels that only offered double beds. I eventually found a twin room but further away than I wanted. It was lovely though.

Very frustrating!

I suspect here is it the fact that the simplest is just to give you the options that fit the number you have given. To add something to the algorithm that enables it to understand that one adult and one 13 year old would want a twin room to bring it to the top is adding unnecessary complication to the search function.

It is much easier to bring up all the room options and for you to pick. Booking.com have a twin room filter at the top that if you press brings up all the twin room options which seems a sensible approach

@Jules912 rarer than hen's teeth, unfortunately. I chose that combination of people to illustrate that a hotel website algorithm simply couldn't make the assumption the OP wanted it to because it doesn't have enough information.

This should be its own AIBU thread. 15 yr old boy wanting to share a bed with his mum? That's more odd.

There is absolutely no way I would share a bed with a teenage son and there is no way I would assume it wouldn’t bother him even if it didn’t bother me.

YANBU.

I was hoping for something cheaper.
nb I know plenty of twin rooms exist, I was just baffled at my search results giving me a list of rooms with a double bed. That's all

I understand this but when I've entered 1 adult, 1 child and it's asked me the age then I would think it could do something clever with that info.
It's probably checking it's not an infant.

But that would be making it think almost like a sentient being - that reading those ages that twin beds would be needed. Rather than it as you say working out if it is an adult or not. I am sure it could be added but then where would the cut off be. And in todays world adding gender/sex to the mix is not somewhere they would want to go!

Which is why Booking.com have it at the top as a filter so as soon as the search results appear so that you can make the decision

Don’t know if this will help, but when I’m looking for s/c for DH & me I always start out putting 3 people, because he snores terribly and we can’t share a room.
That way we’ll generally find at least a 1 bedroom plus sofabed (I tweak the numbers later).
With a hotel, you should then be offered a room with eg double plus twin, or double plus pull-out bed?
(Might cost more though 🤔)

Agree. Premier Inns (and most other twins) only have the option of a double bed or a family room (sofa bed made up). No proper twins.
Same goes for trips with girlfriends. I don't mind sharing a room with a friend but I don't want to share a bed! And it feels very unfair when one person is in a huge double bed and the other is on a single sofa,

It’s not just UK. We need separate beds and the number of hotels and B&B in France and Italy who only have double beds is at least 80%. I nearly always had to book a three bedded room, which would be a double and a single.

Or a travel lodge / Premier inn. Stayed in one with my 14 year old son, I had the proper bed, he had the sofa bed.

they do cock up a bit though by offering kids eat free breakfast to a 14 year old boy with hollow legs.