Traveling with Teens (Boy/Girl)

[CAFarmerGirl]

What do other people do when they travel with teens of the opposite sex? Most rooms are 2 double beds with rules against roll-aways due to fire exit issues. We have found it easiest to get rooms near Disney (more hotels with bunks), but what do people do in other areas? It isn't exactly cost effective to always book 2 rooms.

 

[CAFarmerGirl]

Huh...I guess I need to rephrase that to opposite "gender". Weird.

 

[robinb]

I only have one child, but I've heard of some people who bring inflatable mattresses and bedding for one of their kids.

 

[angierae]

If your teens aren't comfortable sharing a bed, they could either sleep with the same-gendered parent, or bring an air mattress and have them swap out who sleeps in the bed.

 

[sksjasams]

It was a while back now, but we stayed at POP with a roll away bed. DH and I would not be comfortable sleeping together in a double, so we each took one and DS slept on a roll away. Not a lot of floor space left, but it worked out great.

Another option is to sleep mom with daughter and dad with son.

 

[hsmamato2]

If your teens aren't comfortable sharing a bed, they could either sleep with the same-gendered parent, or bring an air mattress and have them swap out who sleeps in the bed.

ha- my ds's decided quite a while back that sharing a bed wasn't going to happen, so one of them always slept on an air mattress,or a camp cot we brought with us. no one seemed to care....as long as occupancy limits are observed....(a few times we forgot to bring anything so one of them just slept on the floor....)

 

[bethy]

Many people split the same parents up to sleep with the same gendered kids. But even more common is people start getting condos when their kids get older. Or two hotel rooms.

 

[HM]

We carry a queen sized aerobed with us. They take turns sleeping on the bed and the mattress.

We haven't stayed in a place yet that hasn't had enough floor space (though at HRH over at Universal we had to push it under their 'desk' space and once it was a very tight fit between a bed and closet at some other on-the-road hotel we stopped at).

I've also started searching out hotels that have a sofabed as a third bed option. Sometimes the sofabed is so bad we end up putting the aerobed on top of it. Springhill Suites is one hotel that is usually good for us.

Last vacation (US) we booked two connecting rooms at Royal Pacific.

 

[angierae]

It was a while back now, but we stayed at POP with a roll away bed. DH and I would not be comfortable sleeping together in a double, so we each took one and DS slept on a roll away. Not a lot of floor space left, but it worked out great.

Another option is to sleep mom with daughter and dad with son.

Our first trip, we had three rooms and six people. DH and I had a room with two double beds and we did the exact same thing - slept in separate beds for a week. If DH, DD and I ever go togehter again, we will definitely have to get a moderate because we need queen beds.

 

[Poohbug]

No one in my family wants to share a bed either. We always bring a twin size inflatable mattress or at least a sleeping bag. Sometimes both. Ideally, we look into a two bedroom condo or get two rooms now that the boys are older and take up more space. We are planning a Universal vacation this summer and we voted to stay onsite(one room) with express passes rather than offsite with no express pass, so that is going to be interesting. I plan on spending as much time as possible out of the room.

 

[tasha99]

My kids of opposite gender are okay with at least trying to share a bed if we're all in one room and for a short time. For us, sharing a bathroom is a lot harder because of bathroom hogging. At WDW, we stay in DVC villas, usually 2 BR for the 3 of us so we have lots of space. The other nights of our trip (airport hotel and Universal Studios), we'll suck it up and the kids (DD22 and DS17) will just share a bed. I will say at Hojo's last year (DL trip), we ended up getting a rollaway bed after the first night. Too much complaining of blanket hogging and "he won't lie still," etc.

 

[elgerber]

If we can't get a room with a sleeper sofa/rollaway/air mattress, we share. Boys and one bed, girls in the other LOL. This is tough, since my kids are now 19 and 22, but it still works. We really try to get a room with a sleeper sofa if possible, even if they cost more though, so we don't have to do that.

 

[McKelly]

Air mattress.

 

[canadianjovigirl]

My boy/girl teens have never shared. We usually get a room with 2 queens and a sofa bed, if family suites are not available. Our last resort is a cot as my son doesnt fit on them well being over 6' tall and 200lbs.

 

[katie111]

We have 3 kids so it's even harder. I have 2 tweens, boy11/girl13 and an 8 yr old boy. We just went to the Grand Canyon and changed hotels 5 times as we were traveling around. Generally, we try to stay at Hampton Inn's or similar that have 2 queen beds & a pullout. My DS's will sleep with mom or dad but not with DD13. In our last hotel we only had 2 double beds & they did not allow rollaways. It was a gorgeous hotel but the rooms were tiny. MY Dh slept with the boys in one bed & I slept with DD in the other bed. Luckily my DS's are small for their age and DH is not very tall but he still got a horrible night's sleep.

I think the easiest thing to do with 2 teens of the opposite gender is just to look for rooms with 2 queens and have each sleep with the same gender parent. Or try to get a room with a pullout. They seem to be becoming more common, especially in the mid-price range such as Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Express, etc.

 

[momto2inKC]

We bring along an air bed. It fit well in our room at Pop in April. [GALLERY=][/GALLERY]

 

[Southernmiss]

Air mattresses.

 

[FTM22]

We have two teens - both male - and we have to get two rooms at WDW. They are adult size and no way can they share a bed, even a queen. When we travel elsewhere, we have looked for sofa beds but they are even past the size for those (long legs and muscular - not Pooh shaped!)

 

[pooh2001]

cheap air mattress - throw away before you come home
With the price below for 10 nights it would be $2/day
For 5 nights it would be $4/day
bring some sheets from home
Use an extra pillow from one of the beds
Ask for an extra blanket from house keeping

Walmart has a
Second Avenue Collection Twin Air Mattress with Electric Air Pump
$19.52

 

[CAFarmerGirl]

Thank you, everyone. Looks like we will be getting an air mattress if we can't find the hotels with sofa sleepers.