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Why do holiday homes seem to put double beds in every bed room?

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Witzend Tue 21-Jan-25 21:53:38

escaped

Have you checked whether the beds can be unzipped to create singles?

It’s usually only superkings that unzip. My Gdcs would be very happy to bunk up BTW - they always do when staying with me.

My usual peeve is that there are only standard doubles when there’s plenty of room for a king size.
Always strikes me as stingy. I hate sharing a standard double nowadays - it feels so cramped.

Babs03 Tue 21-Jan-25 21:51:40

I am puzzled too. In many hotels you can book twin beds, is not a problem and in Spain most holiday rentals we have stayed in say it is a double but is actually twin beds pushed together.
Strange

escaped Tue 21-Jan-25 21:47:55

Have you checked whether the beds can be unzipped to create singles?

M0nica Tue 21-Jan-25 21:45:32

We are planning a full family holiday in Norfolk this summer. DGD is off to university in the Autumn, so it will probably be the last one we have.

We want to hire a 4 bedroomed house with 2 bedrooms with double beds and 2 with twin beds. And I have spent this evening paging through 4 berdoomed house after 4 bedroomed house, all talking about the houses being great for families, then showing or saying that three, and sometimes all four bedrooms contain double beds. How on earth can that be family friendly. If you have children they need a bed each

Some houses do have one room with bunk beds, but that is no help if you have more than 2 children. and in our case where we are all adults, or close to adulthood, double beds are fine for the married couples in the group, but our 2 grandchildren and our daughter, their aunt, want beds to themselves.

The fact that so many of these houses have double beds in most of the bedrooms, suggests that that is what people want , but at present I am puzzled.