Why is a "family room" only for four? What happens when you have a dh andTHREE kids?

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I'll tell you what happens... you have to take two rooms....and that third child (poor traumatised thing) doubles the bloody cost.

Now you're talking changer!

Or do a house swap. There are quite a few larger families on the websites and you get to swap for their larger 7 seater cars too. My favourite is one 'new' family. He has 4 children by a previous marriage and she has 2 sets of twins!

we have 3 kids and stay in a hotel/bb which has interconnecting rooms. We stay at the same place in London when we go down.

When we go abroad we either book a Villa or look for a hotel with interconnecting rooms.

Don't get me wrong...most of the time we have two rooms or an apartment.

it's just that for 3 measly nights in London when we'll be out all day (and I don't really want an apartment just for 3 days - we would eat out mostly anyway), (and London is pretty expensive) I would just LURRVE the option of stuffing dc3 on a sofa-bed in a room with the rest of us. We try to travel as much as we can...but when you end up somewhere just for one night...or two or three....and it's only somwehere to lay your head. It doesn't seem to matter whether you go the cheap end or the expensive end of the market...NO-ONE wants that extra child (in the same room)
SOB.

For a longer holiday...of course it's much nicer to have the extra room (shut the dc's in their space).

I have the same problem - but for 3 nights in London I would recommend you look at Youth Hostels - there is one at St pancras that does en-suite family rooms and B&B for £100/ night !

We stay in Finchley, which is not central, but then the kids love the underground trip into the City.
The interconnecting room is iirc £120 per night and will sleep 5. It's lovely and clean with a good breakfast included.

did you not know that you have to sell one of your children at times like this..........or lose them on route/leave them in the luggage dept/loan them to the family with one child who gets charged still as tho they have two!!

and just try going anywhere with 5 children!

can't you sneak one in and bed share?

We normally get two hotel rooms or a villa, but we have snuck in extra kids on occassion! In Miami we had all 6 of us in a room that was supposed to sleep four. We snuck them in a back door!
It literally was a bed for the night, so we didn't really want to pay out for 2 rooms.

How about Citadines?

Also have a look at Booking.com. If you click on the Family Rooms option....I found a couple with a double and 3 singles. And you can compare prices.

thanks for your ideas. Will check out those options.

Astarte, Where in Finchley is the b&B?

Ta

This is where we stay Glenlyn Guest house. I noticed they've put their prices up by £10 I think.

thanks astarte - looks really nice.

We have resorted to sneaking in our third child, tis easy as he is same height as his DB and I dressed them the same for the great sneaking in event. It was only for one night in an airport type hotel though, we couldn't have kept up the pretence for longer than that.

Would have been bad in the event of fire.

We have a caravan now, and it is nice to know that no one has ever slept in the beds but us