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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the people that say it's normal that OP's bedroom will be used in his or her absence. Not in my family, or my husband's family. My teens would NEVER use a bed that's not designated to them as for their use. They might ask to brush their teeth in a free bathroom if someone's using the other one, but they'll take their own towel and won't leave a mess.

I think OP is being perfectly reasonable. [/quote]

And many of us can’t understand asking for a perfectly available room to not be used when you haven’t even arrived yet.  This isn’t about mess - everyone has agreed the room should be cleaned before OP arrives.[/quote]

NP. Those of you shrugging and saying, the teens should clean the room and all will be well -- I would bet that without an adult like grandma standing there over them, the teens are not going to change the sheets on the beds.

And some of us, OP clearly and me too, are not at all going to want to sleep on sheets someone else has been in for several nights in a row (teens or adults).

You're also missing that OP has said repeatedly here that she's stayed in hotels with this family and has seen how they are in hotel rooms. I don't blame her for having no confidence the room and bathroom will be tolerably clean.

Complicating things: She's arriving late at night. No one should have to spend that first night on gross sheets and with a dirty bathroom, then spend the next morning -- which will be Thanksgiving morning, people! -- nagging two teens to come back in and clean a room and bathroom! It'll never happen, or the teens will be pi$$ed and sulky and their parents crabby about that.

Teens can suck up sharing a room and bathroom and should be told so by their own parents. Period. They dont get to call the shots. And yeah, OP does, regarding the room OP and her own two teens are sharing. [/quote]

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