Do adult women share rooms vs men on adult trips?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dh and I are in our 40s. I have done girlfriend trips since I was in college and we always share a room or suite. Sometimes we can’t all fit in one room so we few a few rooms but multiple women are in the same room. On a few occasions when I was sleep deprived with young children, I really wanted to just get my own room but decided to just stay with the friends because much of the trips is hanging out with friends getting ready and hanging out in the room.

When Dh travels, he always gets his own room. Sometimes other guys may crash in a friend’s room so 2 men in a 2 queen room but for the most part, everyone gets their own room.

Is this a female/male dynamic?

I wonder if it is financial. My husband makes a very high income as do most of his friends. My friends are a mix of working women and stay at home moms. HHI varies from friend to friend.

As a fully formed adult I pay the single supplement and happily retreat to my own space when I need to. Not an issue of income although I’m comfortable. I surely don’t share a room w another gender.

[Anonymous]

It's more dangerous for women to have a single room. I follow a airline attendant for travel tips and I'm surprised how many of them are about hotel safety for women.

[Anonymous]

My husband and I each travel seperately with friends. Each of us sometimes share rooms, but I draw the line at sharing beds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How will men spend 45min in the bathroom in the morning if they had to share it with other men?!

How to women do it?

Are they more comfortable sharing?

Women either don't poop on trips (vacation constipation is real) or they go quickly and only spend a few minutes in the bathroom.

I can't figure out why men need to spend half the morning in the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How will men spend 45min in the bathroom in the morning if they had to share it with other men?!

How to women do it?

Are they more comfortable sharing?

Women either don't poop on trips (vacation constipation is real) or they go quickly and only spend a few minutes in the bathroom.

I can't figure out why men need to spend half the morning in the bathroom.

Me either. DH acts like his whole day is ruined if he can’t have a relaxing 30 minute poop. If we are traveling or for whatever reason he didn’t get his time, he will have to stop multiple times during the day to “try” to poop. He won’t just wait until it feels like the poop is ready. He wants to preemptively get it out for some odd reason. It’s bizarre. I just wait until it’s ready and then I’m quick.

[Anonymous]

I have shared rooms or beds with various different groups of girlfriends. Of course we prefer our own space but if the layout requires it, NBD.

I think it is a gender thing more than anything else. We could all afford our own rooms but look to spend the most amount of time together.

I recently went overseas and landed at 6 a.m. and told my husband I would go crawl into bed with my girlfriend who already had a room. He said no man would ever say that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a woman and would have no issue sharing a hotel room that has 2 beds in it (queens or fulls) with another adult woman. I would only do this if I were close to the woman, but if I'm on vacation with her that's a safe bet. We've even done 3 to a room and it was fine but 2 would be better.

The women on this site are just too precious.

I'm not too precious for it, but have no need to sleep in a hotel room with someone else. Way too much money for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I almost always get my own room though last year I took a trip with three SILs and we shared two rooms. My husband will never share as he’s a light sleeper and he’d kill a snorer which he happens to be himself.

That's me. It's the worst! People waking me up to tell me I'm snoring and then I can't get back to sleep. Own room for me!

[Anonymous]

I'm an early riser AND I snore, so I definitely get my own room.

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Anonymous wrote:I have not shared a hotel room with an unrelated female since I was in my 20s. We have money now, can afford our own rooms.

Op here. This must be a friend group and budget related.

On my last few girl trips, I was the only one who had my own bed. Everyone else shared.

NP here. I am in my mid forties and my girlfriends also all want to share rooms AND beds. I’m the one who wants my own room.

DH rarely shares a room and definitely not a bed. Very very occasionally a broke friend May sleep on the second queen but he has very few broke friends.

We have a $2m+ HHI but I have always had a higher income than my girlfriends. In our twenties, I earned 200k+. Friends HHI range 100k-800k.

[Anonymous]

There is zero chance I am sharing a room with another man.

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I used to share rooms on trips when younger and needed to save the money.

I'm a grown man in my 50s that makes good money. The days of sharing a room are over.

[Anonymous]

I haven't shared a bed since my 20s but I usually share a room with two beds with a friend if we are travelling in a group. No more than two people per room!

Cuts way down on expenses.

DH has also shared rooms lots of times as well.

[Anonymous]

^ I should add that both of us travel with friends we have had for decades. I think we might prefer single rooms if it was a newish friend or someone we didn't know that well. The friends we travel with, we have been sharing rooms with on trips since our 20s.

[Anonymous]

We will both share a room, but everyone MUST have their own bed. So 2 queens or 2 doubles means 2 people in the room.

When we were 20 something, 2 queens would have meant 4 of us in the room. Ain't no way now.

I will occasionally still share a king size bed with a friend, but my DH wouldn't. This is usually when we're doing a girls trip to an Air BNB and some sharing makes it easier.