When you travel with older kids, and you have 3 of them, do you get one hotel room or two?

[Anonymous]

One hotel room for my family of six.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 17, 14 and 8. I always get one room. I try for two queen beds and a pull out couch and a refrigerator and microwave. Honestly, it's not just the hotel room that kills you, but the cost of eating all of your meals out. If you can heat up some foods and have a way to keep milk for cereal cold, it's a bonus.

Another option that we do is that if we can find a campground near where we want to be that has cabins or tents to rent, we prefer that. There is so much for kids to do other than watch tv, you can cook and, big bonus, you can build a fire. Cabins are great because they tend to have better kitchens and showers instead of shared showers. This usually costs me less than a hotel room. Not an option everywhere obviously.

We try and book 2 bedroom suites at Marriott Residence Inns. Full breakfast is included and dinner M-Th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One hotel room for my family of six.

And this has never, ever been a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One hotel room for my family of six.

And this has never, ever been a problem.

This sounds miserable. One bathroom for six? No private time on vacation with my spouse? Yuck.

[Anonymous]

We have two kids and always get a suite (with a door between bedroom and living room) or two rooms. DH and I want/value privacy.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously I could not commit to a short topic heading. We are debating having a third. One of the reasons I balk is that we aren't super super wealthy and we love to travel. I foresee a time when we will need to get two hotel rooms to accommodate our three-child family. Is that true? I sort of have this belief that even when my oldest is in high school, he will be okay sleeping on a rollaway in a double-double hotel room. Am I delusional? Will we be getting two rooms no matter what?

FWIW, the kids are 6 and 3 now, so this is a ways off

Thanks!

We only have two and have been getting two rooms since they were early teens. The eldest is 6'2 and big all over- he needs his own bed. If there is a couch or third bed, we will go with one room.

[Anonymous]

Family of 5 and we always get one room. We prefer something like Springhill Suites by Marriott, Residence Inn, or Towne Place Suites, but they're not always available. We've slept on two queens plenty of times.

[Anonymous]

This is one reason of several we chose to only have one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 17, 14 and 8. I always get one room. I try for two queen beds and a pull out couch and a refrigerator and microwave. Honestly, it's not just the hotel room that kills you, but the cost of eating all of your meals out. If you can heat up some foods and have a way to keep milk for cereal cold, it's a bonus.

Another option that we do is that if we can find a campground near where we want to be that has cabins or tents to rent, we prefer that. There is so much for kids to do other than watch tv, you can cook and, big bonus, you can build a fire. Cabins are great because they tend to have better kitchens and showers instead of shared showers. This usually costs me less than a hotel room. Not an option everywhere obviously.

We try and book 2 bedroom suites at Marriott Residence Inns. Full breakfast is included and dinner M-Th.

Yeah, I'm sure that free dinner is *really* good. Isn't part of going on vacation the food experience?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have two kids and always get a suite (with a door between bedroom and living room) or two rooms. DH and I want/value privacy.

+1 Family of 3 and we like our privacy and not tiptoeing around sleeping DC!

[Anonymous]

OP here - I had forgotten that I asked this question (whoops) and just checked back. Thanks! We usually aim for Residence Inn or standard Marriott, mostly for the free food - we are the highest level of Marriott and the concierge breakfast is well worth it. We do have a lot of points but in answer to one PP, we use government rates usually, so it is not worth it to spend the 50K points on a night. (And we don't spend much time in a hotel room anyway.)

I am not REALLY basing my procreation decisions on travel. It's just an interesting data point. Thanks for all the feedback!

[Anonymous]

Family of six. We only stay in hotels a handful of times each year (prefer to stay in condos or houses). As such, this is such a nonissue IMHO. We are talking about such a minor thing. Either deal with one room or spring for two (which we often do, but not always).

[Anonymous]

We always look for an embassy suites.