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: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.

Houseguests are often a hassle for the host. DH's single friend was just saying how his friend asked if he could crash and then said he was bringing his wife. Now he has to get a cleaning lady to clean and then will probably crash on the couch while his friend and wife get his bed. People are rude and don't even know it. guy is not happy and thinks it is a hassle but welcomed the friend. It's one thing if it is just 1 person. don't bring the whole clan.

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We have 3 kids - now ages 6, 11, and 15. When our third child was little, we ALWAYS just had her in a crib. Worked fine. She was happy to sleep in a pack and play until she was pretty old and didn't fit in it anymore. She loved having her own little bed.

Even now, we generally sleep in one room with two queens and a rollaway if we can get one. If no rollaway is availabe, 15 year old and mom sleep in one bed, dad with the two younger kids in the other. Sometimes one kid will sleep on a sofa. I usually call the hotel when reserving and ask if it's okay to have 5 in a room, since many websites won't let me book 5. Once we happened to have a sleeping bag in the car and DH slept on the floor.

I guess we are frugal when it comes to hotel rooms. We generally stay in nicer hotels - like $200 - 300 and up per night -- and so reserving a second room each night on a vacation would add a few thousand dollars to the trip expense. Our view is that we're asleep most of the time anyway, so it's not the biggest burden to be in one room at night. We'd rather spend the money on fabulous meals.

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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.

Everything about this seems so gross. Hotel floors creep me out.

Our kids are 7, 5 and almost 3. We've done two doubles and a PNP, but that's the worst of the possible options, and we limit it to when it's only for a night or there are no other options. We prefer a suite. We put the older kids on the sofa bed (which also kind of grosses me out, but I deal with it), and the youngest on a rollaway or PNP. That allows us to stay up a little later in the other room.

Three kids certainly makes costs and logistics of vacations more challenging!!

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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.

Everything about this seems so gross. Hotel floors creep me out.

Our kids are 7, 5 and almost 3. We've done two doubles and a PNP, but that's the worst of the possible options, and we limit it to when it's only for a night or there are no other options. We prefer a suite. We put the older kids on the sofa bed (which also kind of grosses me out, but I deal with it), and the youngest on a rollaway or PNP. That allows us to stay up a little later in the other room.

Three kids certainly makes costs and logistics of vacations more challenging!!

Watch it! You're in jeopardy of being pummeled that you asked for it by foolishly having more than 1 or 2 children.

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Won't the baby wake up the kids several times a night?

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What about a 1 BR suite, youm DH and baby in BR, older kids on sofabed?

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Don't people have sex on vacations anymore? 2 rooms. Always.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't people have sex on vacations anymore? 2 rooms. Always.

Are you wealthy?

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Anonymous wrote:What about a 1 BR suite, youm DH and baby in BR, older kids on sofabed?

We get a 1-bedroom suite and we only have 1 kid! I mean, at a Residence Inn or Hilton Garden Inn, not the Four Seasons.