Sharing a hotel room with someone other than spouse/young children

[goofyintoronto]

They may be my kids, but they're grown. With wives. They don't need mommy in their rooms!

 

[Bluestars]

They may be my kids, but they're grown. With wives. They don't need mommy in their rooms!

That's true. Grown with a wife is a different story. Mine is only 18, so it's no big deal for me. Once he has a wife, he gets his own room.

 

[Fire14]

It's not unexpected for my Friend to travel with us. WE all share a hotel room and split costs. WE have even cruised together multiple times and did 1 cabin.
My Friend and Hubs are both early ppl so they work it among themselves who showers first and whoever gets done first wakes my butt up.

During a trip about a year ago my hubs took coworker with him and I took friend and my niece so we had girls room and guys room. My niece ended up sleeping with my friend in her bed, no one cared, guys had own room but we left connecting doors unlocked and only closed door at night to drown out snoring from guys.

previous trip we had my nephew and hubs in 1 bed, friend and I in other bed and other than Teenager not wanting to shower without intervention we all survived.

When I visit my dad's I either crash on couch or we get air mattress in dining room or living room depending on who is all staying at his house.

 

[Hannathy]

Unless it is a romantic trip I have no issue sharing with other people, be them my parents, my kid, distant relative or friend. But then again, I am never really worried about the hotel room in the first place. All I do is sleep in them so as long as they are clean and safe, I'm good.

Same here we always share a room, why would I waste money to pay for another room when there is a bed sitting there? seems really wasteful to me.

All you do is sleep there.

WE have always shared from a kid till now. and my DH is the same.

 

[Colleen27]

I don't like sharing a bed with anyone other than DH or our girls if necessary, but I don't mind sharing a room with my mom when I'm traveling with her instead of with DH. And I can tolerate sharing space with other adults when I really have to, ie chaperoning school or scout trips, even though I prefer to have my own space.

For our family travels I do like having two rooms or a suite now that the kids are getting older rather than having DS16 sleeping on a roll-away or air mattress, but if packing into one room is the only practical option I can make do.

 

[dawnhaze]

I do staff work at several gaming and fandom conventions and share hotel rooms with 3 strangers in free 'crash space' arrangements for volunteers.

I prefer my own space but it isn't a necessity.

 

[m3retired]

we all survived.

But vacation shouldn't be about surviving, it should be about indulging.

At least, in my world anyway!

 

[DawnM]

I go on trips with my girlfriends all the time. Yes, we share rooms. No big deal at all.

But I also went to boarding school as a kid, so sharing with people outside of my family was definitely not a big deal.

I even shared a hotel (2 beds) with a male co-worker once when I was single. We were going to a conference and it was the last hotel room within 40 min. of the conference. There was nothing strange about it. In fact, we stayed up in our separate beds and told each other funny stories about our families. We were there 3 nights and nothing weird happened. In retrospect, it probably wasn't the wisest decision, but honestly, I just thought of him like a brother and wasn't thinking anything would happen and it didn't.

I am planning to go to our high school reunion this summer and my BFF and I will share a room. Last reunion I shared a room with one of my best friends and her brother It wasn't weird at all. He is like my brother too and we all had separate beds (they brought in a roll away.)

Dawn

 

[Fire14]

But vacation shouldn't be about surviving, it should be about indulging.

At least, in my world anyway!

Oh we indulge in the good food and fun in the parks. It works for us and that is what matters.

 

[georgina]

We did a trip last summer with 18yo DD and I sharing a bed, 21yo DS and DH sharing the other. I grew up in a large family so bed sharing was routine.

 

[mguilford1]

I come from a big family that didnt have a lot of money and we all squeezed in a room or didnt go! I cant believe all of the people that agree with your DH. If I had to get a seperate room for a 19yo he wouldnt be going!! I can think of only one reason my husband wouldnt want anyone in our room with us! I am going on a business trip and my co-worker and I, we are both females, will share a room (we are friends) some people thought this was weird. Why spend tons of extra money when you dont have to? We wear PJ's, talk and fall asleep....why do you need a seperate room to do this?

 

[m3retired]

Don't NEED one...want one.

 

[cjbcam]

Have no problem sharing a hotel room. Even sharing a bed. Our family always has. My DH thinks its weird. What I think is weird is his sister will have business meetings in the city we live in and she stays at a hotel instead of our house. In my family that's an insult. If you are in a city where someone (cousins, aunts etc) lives and you don't crash there they get upset.

 

[mimmi]

I'm very particular with sharing rooms.
Other than sharing a room with my husband and daughter I prefer to,be alone.
Once my company didn't book enough rooms for us and the hotel was fully booked, so the options were to either share a room with a colleague or to take a taxi und move to another hotel. I chose the other hotel.
I'm also not very close to my parents, so sharing a room with them would make me rather uncomfortable.

On the other hand, once a year I have to go on a university trip for a week, where two people have to share a room and while I was very apprehensive last year it was actually great fun with my colleague and I'm almost looking forward to Sunday when the next trip is coming up.

 

[elphaba91]

I don't have a problem with it. When we are at my aunt's beach house I've always had to share a room (except for one time when we were there for over a week and none of my cousins was there). At the very least I share a room with my sister and at times when the house is full (e.g. at Christmas) our mum is in there too and I'm stuck on the top bunk. On our upcoming trip we will be sharing a 2 Queen bed room between the 3 of us, so 2 people will have to share. None of us minds!

 

[Aliceacc]

I'm leaving in a few hours for New Jersey for my aunt's wake.

Mom and I are staying overnight and sharing a hotel room, one bed apiece.

Two of my sisters are driving down tonight after work. If they decide it's too late to drive home, I'm fine with them sharing our room-- we'll do 2 to a bed. They're my sisters; we've been sharing rooms forever.

And I've shared rooms with colleagues; I'm a teacher and have chaperoned a zillion trips. Frequently it's been 2 to a room. No big deal.

 

[aprilgail2]

Have no problem sharing a hotel room. Even sharing a bed. Our family always has. My DH thinks its weird. What I think is weird is his sister will have business meetings in the city we live in and she stays at a hotel instead of our house. In my family that's an insult. If you are in a city where someone (cousins, aunts etc) lives and you don't crash there they get upset.

When I go out of town and I know I have relatives in that area I purposely don't tell them we will be in town so we don't get bugged to stay there- I HATE staying at someones house rather than in a hotel. If we want to see them then we will give them a call like the day before we are leaving to try to meet up for a meal.

I am with your DH. I think I only snore during allergy season or when sick, but I wouldn't want to subject anyone to that. Throw in sleeping bra-less and changing clothes etc and I would hate that, even with a parent or sister. I prefer my space and am very private and modest. We do occasional long weekend with family in a cabin but adults have their own bedroom/bath. That is close enough for me.

The sleeping braless thing doesn't bother me, its not like the rest of the world wears a bra to go to sleep but I prefer my own space too. I recently took my daughter and her friend to a you tube convention in Fla and I booked a sweet- I had my own bedroom and they had the living room and pull out sofa so that worked out perfect.

 

[NHdisneylover]

We often get separate rooms because we like to have more space (especially on a cruise ship) but if cost is an issue, we share without hesitation.

How would your husband feel about our family? We are two adults and two opposite gender older teens. Would he feel we need three rooms so the teens would not be sharing with their sibling (not a young child)?

I've shared rooms with other Girl Scout leaders at training, with my mom, my mother in law, a friend, my kids, etc--I fail to see what the big deal about that could be and am surprised by how many people are adamant against it.

Heck the SCA events my kids go to have "crash space" where they can take sleeping bags and sleep for almost free on a floor somewhere--there tend to be 30 or so people of all ages and genders in the crash space, no one thinks a thing of sleeping around other people.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I do staff work at several gaming and fandom conventions and share hotel rooms with 3 strangers in free 'crash space' arrangements for volunteers.

I prefer my own space but it isn't a necessity.

I missed your post the first time through! I just posted about crash space too. My teens are on a wait list and hope someone cancels so they can have crash space at an event this very weekend

 

[MIGrandma]

I'm fine with sharing a room with a family member or close friend, as long as I have my own bed. I take my Mom on overnight trips every year for her birthday and we always share a room, but each have our own beds. This year she has invited two other friends to go along. Mom and I will share a room, and the two friends will share a room. Four in a room is just too many, with only one bathroom.