Fitting 3 singles in one room at Center Parcs

[Helskitty]

We're due to go to Centre Parcs with friends and kids in April and I'm getting a bit worried about the bed set-up. The group breakdown is Family 1: 2 adults, 2 kids. Family 2: 2 adults, 1 kid. Single Adult.

We had planned to put all the kids in one room by moving one of the single beds out of one of the twins and squeezing it into the other one. The single adult will not want to share her room with a kid. We've stayed in a 2-bedroom lodge before but never a 4-bedroom one, I feel we could squeeze an extra single into the 2-bedroom lodge but I've heard the 4-bedroom lodge bedrooms are a bit smaller, does anyone have any experience?

One option is to bring a pump-up bed for one of the children but hoping to avoid this if we can, with the inherent problems of pump-up beds.

I think it will depend on which style house at which site, but from the 3 bed houses we've used I'd guess you won't be able to do that.
Might all 3 kids be ok in a double bed together?

I'd take the airbed.

Are any of the kids young enough to fit in the travel cot? If not you might have more luck just moving the mattress from one of the single beds - this would still be a squeeze but probably more practical.

Unfortunately no, the youngest two will be 4 (they were born on the same day) and the oldest is 6. I think I'll take a pump-up as a last resort option, I didn't think about moving the mattress, that might work as a temporary solution.

The one I stayed in you wouldn’t have fitted a 3rd single bed or mattress in the twin room.

We've been to Whinfell a couple of times and stayed in both 2 and 4 bed lodges. It was always tight to fit the travel cot in one of the bedrooms with a double or twin beds, would not be possible to move another single bed or mattress in. Even a single air bed would be a very tight squeeze and would have had to go at the foot of the bed and possibly get in the way of the door, not even sure that would fit.

You do know this invalidates your stay. You'd have to put it back every day the cleaners are there.

I'd stick the kids all in a double bed together and the adults use the single room.

Sorry I read the OP wrong! Ignore my post lol.

I think u would have to push the twins beds together to fit a blow up mattress in the room.

I'd possibly see if you could wedge the two singles together into the corner of the room, so they don't slide apart and put the three kids together. There really isn't space for a third bed in some of the twin rooms.

Moving a mattress invalidates your stay? In what respect? What is the consequences of invalidation and where does it say you can't move mattresses?

Im a regular at CP and there is NO way you will fit another single bed in a Twin room

It’s been quite some time since I have been to CP but aren’t there fixed tables between beds so not always possible to move beds

I've never had cleaning during a stay at Center Parcs.

Where I have stayed, I think you will really struggle to fit a mattress in. You might need to go with all the kids in the double bed (possibly a disaster) or take a cot mattress and maybe put it in the double room if you can push the bed against the wall. Do you have an ensuite? That might help floor space. Otherwise the single adult is going to have to lump it!

Put the 3 kids in the double and two adults in the twin room. Makes more sense to me. It's what we do if we can only get a 3 bed and no room to squeeze in a bed as dd 1 absolutely cannot be with her siblings and the other three are happy as shit sharing.

We’ve been loads of times in 4 bed lodges and I don’t think we’ve ever had a bedroom big enough to squeeze 3 beds in, though some are roomier than others. Which site are you going to?

Who’s your single adult and would they share with anyone?

Some have a tiny room with bunks in

When we had one there would have been space for that

Actually there would have been space in one of the double rooms. Put them all in there.

There's some videos on YouTube to show the different lodges

You'd easily fit a single bed or blow up in any of the twin rooms in lodges I've staid in ( a lot!) but you'd never get a single bed through the door frame

Top and tail the 4 year olds in one single bed and put 6 year old in the other single bed maybe?

Yes put twice of the kids in the same bed. I have twins and they shared a single bed at home and on holidays out of choice until they were 9. They left one bed empty.

Thank you, everyone. Sounds like it'll be luck of the draw.

We're staying in lodge 149 at Longleat. It's a New Style Woodland Lodge, so no cleaning during our stay. The single adult won't share, I wouldn't want to make her, she's not related to the children in anyway and hasn't got any of her own, so I would imagine she'd enjoy some child free time by herself.

I was thinking, I could put my 4 and 6 year old in a double bed together and the other 4 year old could go on a single if we can fit the single into a double room.

We'll make it work some how, even if we have to have our 4 year old in with us as a worst case scenario, he normally ends up in with us at some point in the night anyway.

I'll update on here after our stay.

Center Parcs isn’t the same as a hotel. Housekeeping only go into the lodges once the guests have checked out.