Airbnb's or family friendly places to stay in Europe
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Anonymous
You'd have to read the details of the hotel. Some hotel rooms in Europe (and other places in the World) are quite small. I can think of many places we've stayed at where there would not have been room for an extra bed. But we don't tend to spend a ton of time in our hotel room so location is most important to us and will stay in a small room in a coveted location. But there are only 3 of us. |
Anonymous
| It wasn’t on your list but our family of four really enjoyed our 2 bedroom suite at the Intercontinental in Lisbon. Room service was great when we needed an early night for the kids. Tons of amenities and wonderful service. The space was huge. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
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Check out the Familienhotel chain in northern Italy (South Tyrol/Dolomites). Amazing scenery, lots of natured focused activities, great food. You would fly into Milan or Venice.
https://www.familienhotels.com/en/familienhotels-your-holiday-home/find-your-family-hotel |
Anonymous
| We did this in France last year. Mix of apartment rentals, small guest house type hotels, and standard hotels (all through booking.com). Many European smaller hotels have family rooms that are more like suites and are designed for families with 2-3 kids. In other places, we just got two rooms close together. (Girls 8 and 11, no issues whatsoever.) |
Anonymous
| We have done both expensive 1k a night hotels and airbnbs in Italy and Paris. Airbnbs were great because we could get a multiple bedrooms and it was safe but you need to make sure the place has many reviewers and good ones. We also had a great time in hotels too but they were more cramped and for the same price as 2 rooms you could get a 3bedroom condo. |
Anonymous
| All in one room or one parent in each room |
Anonymous
| Try Kid and Coe. It's like an Air BNB but for families. |
Anonymous
Oh no, I meant that not doing a lot of research or trying to get a deal isn’t worth the risk. My kids are still little and we use airbnbs so they can go to bed early while DH and I can relax— also because it’s nice to have a kitchen and ability to do laundry etc. I also echo what others say about communicating with the host beforehand, never communicating outside of Airbnb, and if something feels sketchy, trust your gut. I agree about 30 reviews seeming low— that’s just a baseline. I try to see as many as possible. Something with close to 100 or more is even better! I also read every review and bonus points to those reviews that are detailed (which I try to do myself to help other guests). You can also ask here about specific places and sometimes people will give the exact Airbnb they stayed in. I really have used it in several countries and have no horror stories. The worst Airbnb was actually in the DC area— and it wasn’t bad, it was just not totally as advertised, not a scam by any means. And I wrote a review that was detailed so other guests could be aware. |
Anonymous
Thanks! This is OP. We are not sure yet but we have 3 places in mind: 1. Paris, Ghent or Brussels and Amsterdam 2. Rome, Florence, Venice 3. Zurich, Lucern and Interlaken If anyone has recommendations for any of these places I would appreciate it. Thanks! |
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To those who have been helpful, thank you!
To the 1 or 2 trolls, I honestly wonder what makes you the way you are. You do not know what another person may be going through in their life and maybe they are trying to do something nice for their kids, even if it is on a budget. Trolling about someone's financial means or health (I've seen someone troll in that forum too) is the lowest a person can go. Reflect on yourself. |
Anonymous
This hotel in Amsterdam is good. The layout is quirky, but they have rooms for 4 people. It's walkable to everything. You should prepay for the breakfast because there were so many breakfast restaurants that didn't open until late morning, which I didn't anticipate. It was good to just have the hotel as a quick option to eat if we had morning plans. https://www.novahotel.nl/ |
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We have stayed in AirBnBs on several trips to Europe. We have never had a true problem. Some places felt more worn and tired than the photographs, which is likely a result of a stream of visitors over a few years since the photographs were taken. In a couple of places we have had inconveniences -- no soap or toilet paper when we arrived, for example -- but others were fantastic spaces, in wonderful locations, with lovely and personable hosts.
I concur with reading reviews carefully and making sure the photographs are clearly (as close as you can tell) all from the same space. I tend to choose the places that seem to be owned/run by a person who has at most a handful of listings, rather than a management company that has lots of listings in the same city. That may not make a huge difference in avoiding scams, but I can't forget a story about a set of scam listings across London from a few years ago. Another approach would be to use vacation rental companies -- we have used one in London several times and there are similar services in Paris. These are actual, licensed businesses so much less worry about phantom listings -- prices are higher, though. |
Anonymous
| Not a 'family' here (just DH and I) but when we've rented apartments in Europe (we've done Iceland, Switzerland, Germany and Austria), we book through Booking.com. I've loved every place we've stayed. I don't use the AirBnB site because, well, I don't have any reviews on there I guess it makes me look 'sus'. No issues on Booking! |
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My best Airbnb experiences have been in Europe. Look for good reviews but not necessarily by the rating number. The Europeans will say "best stay ever" and give 4 stars so you really have to read the reviews and not assume a 4.7 is a bad property. A 5 star property probably just means there are only a few reviews.
You can paste in a listing here to get a quick summary of the reviews: https://checkout.reviews/ |