If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

+1, and what utter misery for the teenagers to all be in room

you could do this with young kids, but for your preteen/teen kids this is just going to suck. Give them a little dignity and get two rooms.

I do not understand this sentiment at all. What is undignified about this?

Kids that age need a little space, if not total privacy, and will be miserable stuck in a hotel room with 5 people on what's supposed to be a "vacation." Sounds like sheer chaos, stress, and general unpleasantness.

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

Then don't do it! I just said that we are happy vacationing this way. I enjoy the company of my children and they are not at all put out by this arrangement. YOU put YOUR 3 kids in a separate room if that's your requirement to not feel like hell.

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

+1, and what utter misery for the teenagers to all be in room

Well, there's only one teenager and he isn't the least bit miserable. Maybe yours is/are? Mine isn't miserable, not with this arrangement, nor on a normal day at home.

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

+1, and what utter misery for the teenagers to all be in room

you could do this with young kids, but for your preteen/teen kids this is just going to suck. Give them a little dignity and get two rooms.

Preteen/teen boys don't have a whole lotta dignity, lol. You all are nuts. Someone tells you their family ENJOYS something and you go on to practically accuse me of being an abusive parent and that my kids are miserable. How about you take me on my word and you plan your vacation the way you want? We're good over here.

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

+1, and what utter misery for the teenagers to all be in room

Well, there's only one teenager and he isn't the least bit miserable. Maybe yours is/are? Mine isn't miserable, not with this arrangement, nor on a normal day at home.

do all 5 of you sleep in one room at home?

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

+1, and what utter misery for the teenagers to all be in room

Well, there's only one teenager and he isn't the least bit miserable. Maybe yours is/are? Mine isn't miserable, not with this arrangement, nor on a normal day at home.

do all 5 of you sleep in one room at home?

Yes.

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Family of seven here, and we'll crash just about anywhere. Found some hotel rooms on our last road trip with three double beds and enough room for a sleeping bag and a pillow on the floor - perfect! Heck, we'll crash in your basement if you let us! Have sleeping bags, will travel!

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

+1, and what utter misery for the teenagers to all be in room

Well, there's only one teenager and he isn't the least bit miserable. Maybe yours is/are? Mine isn't miserable, not with this arrangement, nor on a normal day at home.

do all 5 of you sleep in one room at home?

Yes.

Then maybe you need a CPS referral.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of seven here, and we'll crash just about anywhere. Found some hotel rooms on our last road trip with three double beds and enough room for a sleeping bag and a pillow on the floor - perfect! Heck, we'll crash in your basement if you let us! Have sleeping bags, will travel!

Yes! That's great. I honestly think having a bigger family makes you better at going with the flow. All these judgy parents here seem so uptight and high maintenance. Such black and white ideas of what will make their vacation miserable to the point of it not even being worth taking.

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Anonymous wrote:We have three kids - 15, 12 and 10. We always get just one room. Used to use a PNP or Aerobed, but now we ask for extra blankets and create a bed on the floor. Blanket spread out underneath and there's no contact with the floor. Kids never complain, they think it's fun, and I honestly think they'd hate to be put in their own room. Vacations are bonding time. We're not a family who has ever used a kids club. We have great memories squished together. Oh, and I'm talking about 5-6 nights.

No way would I "just take day trips" as a substitute. As if I'm torturing my kids by giving them opportunities to travel.

Sounds like hell, and no vacation at all. Put your 3 kids in a separate room, jeez.

+1, and what utter misery for the teenagers to all be in room

Well, there's only one teenager and he isn't the least bit miserable. Maybe yours is/are? Mine isn't miserable, not with this arrangement, nor on a normal day at home.

do all 5 of you sleep in one room at home?

Yes.

Then maybe you need a CPS referral.

I'm sorry that you're not able to realize that I was being sarcastic because OF COURSE NOT.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of seven here, and we'll crash just about anywhere. Found some hotel rooms on our last road trip with three double beds and enough room for a sleeping bag and a pillow on the floor - perfect! Heck, we'll crash in your basement if you let us! Have sleeping bags, will travel!

You know how annoying it is. We have a tiny house and my husband's friends and their teenagers came for a week (as in one bathroom tiny). They insisted on staying with us and they'd crash anywhere. So, we stuck them the unfinished basement as they said they were ok with that... but they ended up being all over the house all the time and everything was a drama (i.e. breakfast where the parents said fend for themselves but the teenagers were not comfortable helping themselves so it was a morning war and I had to get up every morning and cook) and they kept my kids up to all hours with the arguing and noise. (And, I made a huge mistake being nice about it as the following summer they sent the kids for a few weeks so they could have a break.)

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Anonymous wrote:Family of seven here, and we'll crash just about anywhere. Found some hotel rooms on our last road trip with three double beds and enough room for a sleeping bag and a pillow on the floor - perfect! Heck, we'll crash in your basement if you let us! Have sleeping bags, will travel!

You know how annoying it is. We have a tiny house and my husband's friends and their teenagers came for a week (as in one bathroom tiny). They insisted on staying with us and they'd crash anywhere. So, we stuck them the unfinished basement as they said they were ok with that... but they ended up being all over the house all the time and everything was a drama (i.e. breakfast where the parents said fend for themselves but the teenagers were not comfortable helping themselves so it was a morning war and I had to get up every morning and cook) and they kept my kids up to all hours with the arguing and noise. (And, I made a huge mistake being nice about it as the following summer they sent the kids for a few weeks so they could have a break.)

Well I didn't say we were completely clueless! We would do this "basement bunkhouse" thing for an overnight somewhere, but I wouldn't mooch off someone for a week where the space clearly wouldn't accommodate us. And I would have no problem if someone told us, you know, we think you'd really be more comfortable in a hotel. Shame on you for letting them repeat the performance.

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My kids are all tween/teen ages. We always get one room. We bring a cot or sleeping bag. It has bever been a problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of seven here, and we'll crash just about anywhere. Found some hotel rooms on our last road trip with three double beds and enough room for a sleeping bag and a pillow on the floor - perfect! Heck, we'll crash in your basement if you let us! Have sleeping bags, will travel!

You know how annoying it is. We have a tiny house and my husband's friends and their teenagers came for a week (as in one bathroom tiny). They insisted on staying with us and they'd crash anywhere. So, we stuck them the unfinished basement as they said they were ok with that... but they ended up being all over the house all the time and everything was a drama (i.e. breakfast where the parents said fend for themselves but the teenagers were not comfortable helping themselves so it was a morning war and I had to get up every morning and cook) and they kept my kids up to all hours with the arguing and noise. (And, I made a huge mistake being nice about it as the following summer they sent the kids for a few weeks so they could have a break.)

Well I didn't say we were completely clueless! We would do this "basement bunkhouse" thing for an overnight somewhere, but I wouldn't mooch off someone for a week where the space clearly wouldn't accommodate us. And I would have no problem if someone told us, you know, we think you'd really be more comfortable in a hotel. Shame on you for letting them repeat the performance.

Most people wouldn't tell you. I never would nor would my husband. You are clueless if you do it overnight and even call it "basement bunkhouse." Its a lot of work for one evening to clear out that much space for 4-5 and then heavily clean since we don't use the basement and then all the other stuff, food, towels, etc. Then the fun of cleaning it all up and the laundry afterward from all the bedding. Its not shame on me. I had no choice. They invited themselves, my husband tried to talk them out of it and they didn't really give us the option.

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Anonymous wrote:We do. Kids are 5, 3, and 22 months. We get a king room and bring sleeping bags for the older two, baby in pnp. Hotel beds are high off the ground and I don't want my two falling out. They like having asleep over. Sometimes I do have to say 4 guests, as it won't let me make the reservation for 5. I know as they get older our arrangements will change. It just saves is some money now. DH and I spend a little time hanging out in the bathroom until the kids fall asleep and then we can go in and watch TV. Works for us for now.

You hang out in the bathroom? That sounds terrible.

And put your two kids on a dirty ass floor? That's horrible op. And disgusting.

OP here. I do not plan on hanging out in the bathroom or having my kids sleep on the floor. I was envisioning baby sleeping in a crib or pack n play, 2 boys sleeping in the queen and DH and I sleeping on the other queen.

Op, yes, your idea sounds fine. As the baby gets older or it starts getting uncomfortable you can switch to adjoining rooms or a suite. We have two children but always get one room to keep trips affordable.