Anonymous
10/16/2016 20:45
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have two boys and a girl. We've always stayed in one room and they're now in HS. We don't mind at all. We'd rather have more money for our adventures than for our room.
Where do 3 mixed gender high schoolers sleep in one hotel room with parents? Is one on the luggage stand or something?
Different poster, but we had a similar setup for family vacations when I was a kid.
Queen bed: parents
Queen bed: two of the kids
Rollaway bed requested from front desk: other kid
OR
Queen bed: Mother and daughter
Queen bed: Father and one son
Rollaway bed: other son
Depending on who snores, kicks, steals blankets, or is otherwise a nightmare to share a bed with. Coin flip, rock paper scissors, or whatever was the last game we played in the car to decide which kids are sleeping where.
New poster here: In my family growing up, I was the oldest (girl) and had two younger brothers. We always shared one room, even on the last trip we all took together which the summer of my senior year in high school. And yes, that is what we did--Parents in one bed, brothers in the other, I got the rollaway cot.
Now I am a parent of 4 children (youngest is 10, oldest is 16) and we all sleep in one room--many rooms have 2 queens and a pull out sofa. And no, we never lie to the front desk about the number of people in our room--the maximum occupancy of such rooms is usually 6. We don't find it to be "hell." We also camp a lot so it sure seems a lot roomier than a tent!
Oldest of 3 kids here and this is what we always did as well. When youngest was a baby, we'd all read after she went to sleep. The horror
Anonymous
10/16/2016 20:30
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have two boys and a girl. We've always stayed in one room and they're now in HS. We don't mind at all. We'd rather have more money for our adventures than for our room.
Where do 3 mixed gender high schoolers sleep in one hotel room with parents? Is one on the luggage stand or something?
Different poster, but we had a similar setup for family vacations when I was a kid.
Queen bed: parents
Queen bed: two of the kids
Rollaway bed requested from front desk: other kid
OR
Queen bed: Mother and daughter
Queen bed: Father and one son
Rollaway bed: other son
Depending on who snores, kicks, steals blankets, or is otherwise a nightmare to share a bed with. Coin flip, rock paper scissors, or whatever was the last game we played in the car to decide which kids are sleeping where.
New poster here: In my family growing up, I was the oldest (girl) and had two younger brothers. We always shared one room, even on the last trip we all took together which the summer of my senior year in high school. And yes, that is what we did--Parents in one bed, brothers in the other, I got the rollaway cot.
Now I am a parent of 4 children (youngest is 10, oldest is 16) and we all sleep in one room--many rooms have 2 queens and a pull out sofa. And no, we never lie to the front desk about the number of people in our room--the maximum occupancy of such rooms is usually 6. We don't find it to be "hell." We also camp a lot so it sure seems a lot roomier than a tent!
Anonymous
10/16/2016 20:24
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have two boys and a girl. We've always stayed in one room and they're now in HS. We don't mind at all. We'd rather have more money for our adventures than for our room.
Where do 3 mixed gender high schoolers sleep in one hotel room with parents? Is one on the luggage stand or something?
Different poster, but we had a similar setup for family vacations when I was a kid.
Queen bed: parents
Queen bed: two of the kids
Rollaway bed requested from front desk: other kid
OR
Queen bed: Mother and daughter
Queen bed: Father and one son
Rollaway bed: other son
Depending on who snores, kicks, steals blankets, or is otherwise a nightmare to share a bed with. Coin flip, rock paper scissors, or whatever was the last game we played in the car to decide which kids are sleeping where.
We have this precise set up and this is what we did when the kids were little. Now that they are older, we usually stay at Embassy Suites or get two rooms.
OP, we often just got a crib for #3 when he was little, and split the 2 beds among the other 4 of us. I'd ignore the people on this thread suggesting there is anything odd about it. I imagine none of them actually has 3 kids, or if they do, they don't enjoy traveling as a family.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 19:57
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have two boys and a girl. We've always stayed in one room and they're now in HS. We don't mind at all. We'd rather have more money for our adventures than for our room.
Where do 3 mixed gender high schoolers sleep in one hotel room with parents? Is one on the luggage stand or something?
Different poster, but we had a similar setup for family vacations when I was a kid.
Queen bed: parents
Queen bed: two of the kids
Rollaway bed requested from front desk: other kid
OR
Queen bed: Mother and daughter
Queen bed: Father and one son
Rollaway bed: other son
Depending on who snores, kicks, steals blankets, or is otherwise a nightmare to share a bed with. Coin flip, rock paper scissors, or whatever was the last game we played in the car to decide which kids are sleeping where.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 19:57
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
We have done our family of 5 in one room because we cosleep with the baby anyway.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 19:52
Subject: If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised people would put young kids in a room alone.
I'm sure they mean one parent in each if the kids are really young. Or adjoining rooms where you can leave the door open.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 19:48
Subject: If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
I'm surprised people would put young kids in a room alone.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 19:33
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote:I have two boys and a girl. We've always stayed in one room and they're now in HS. We don't mind at all. We'd rather have more money for our adventures than for our room.
Where do 3 mixed gender high schoolers sleep in one hotel room with parents? Is one on the luggage stand or something?
Anonymous
10/16/2016 19:25
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
I have two boys and a girl. We've always stayed in one room and they're now in HS. We don't mind at all. We'd rather have more money for our adventures than for our room.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 19:16
Subject: If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Omg to the woman who puts her kids on the floor.... It's a HOTEL!! I am the opposite of a germophobe but that is beyond. And you and your husband just hang in the bathroom? Where?! Doing what!
Anonymous
10/16/2016 18:51
Subject: If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
We are a family of six that often squeezes into one room if it's just for one night. Of course you can stay in one room with an infant/toddler. We just tucked the toddler in bed with us.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 18:14
Subject: If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
I guess I'm in the minority. While we generally do look for a suite set-up that is somewhat close to the price of a single, we definitely put 5 of us in one room if we can't find the other arrangement. My kids are young though...5 and under. We put one in a pack n play or in bed with us and the other two in a bed. It works fine.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 16:42
Subject: Re:If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
OP you still haven't answered WHY you would choose to do this. I can't imagine going on a willing trip with this set up. If you can't afford more than one hotel room, do day trips from your house. If it's for an emergency, funeral, etc. and you can't afford two rooms - that's the only way this should possibly be a choice.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 16:37
Subject: If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
10/16/2016 15:45
Subject: If you have 3 kids, can you stay in a normal hotel room if baby sleeps in a crib?
Anonymous wrote: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.