Teenager sibling room sharing

welshmoneylover

Do you think it's acceptable for a 15 year old girl and 17 year old boy, both brother and sister, to share a hotel room to keep the cost down.

Just wanted your opinions, ta v much

looby75

of course it is my 8yr old ds and 16 yr old dd share a bedroom all the time as we only have a 2 bedroom house so I can see no reason at all for your kids not to share a room for a week or 2 on holiday.

Mrs_Thrify

Hiya , 2 of my children did on some nights on a holiday we had to Lanzarote. Our son was given the choise of sleeping in the other twin bed with daughter or the sofa. He did a bit of both as the mood took him.
All worked out well. Theese were older teens too.

Loopy_Lobes

Yes can't see why there would be a problem if they get along? My 14 year old son and 11 year old daughter hate each other guts most of the time so we try and keep them away from each other if we want peace!

olias

I can't see any problems at all as long as they get on! However, without stating the obvious, double check that the room is a twin and not a double!!

Olias

notakid

Of course its okay alot of holiday apartments booked thru travel companies have one bed and a sofa bed in the kitchen area to sleep two.

I see no problem for my children (boy and girl to sleep together in a double if push came to shove). Not that they would as they have been spoilt with their sleeping arrangements since we started to DIY holiday.

Its not that they sleep naked and they will be sleeping, nothing else!

sabretoothtigger

1. 1. The legal mechanisms for defining and dealing with overcrowding have remained largely unchanged since the 1930s and are widely considered to be out of date. Nationally, there are three measures which can be used to assess overcrowding:

• • Part 10 of the Housing Act 1985

• • The introduction of overcrowding standards in 1935 reflected two key concerns: decency through the separation of the sexes and provision of adequate space.
  • The room standard is breached if the number of people sleeping in a dwelling, and the number of rooms available as sleeping accommodation, are such that two people of opposite sexes who are not living together as husband and wife must sleep in the same room. Children under 10 do not count.
  • The space standard specifies the maximum number of people who may sleep in a dwelling, and in the available rooms within it, having regard to (i) the number of available rooms of 50 square feet or more and (ii) the floor area of each room. Babies under one year old do not count, and children between one and ten count as half. For the purposes of these standards, a room is considered “available as sleeping accommodation” if it is “of a type normally used as a bedroom or a living room.
  • For example, a couple with a boy aged 15 years and a girl aged 13 years in a one bedroom flat would not be statutorily overcrowded because the father and son could share one room and the mother and daughter the sitting room (or even the kitchen)
  • Under the statutory standards it is estimated that nationally 20,000 households are overcrowded.

Survey of English Housing Definition

• • A more modern definition of overcrowding is used in the Survey of English Housing, known as the bedroom standard. This is based on the ages and composition of the family. A notional number of bedrooms are allocated to each household in accordance with its composition by age, sex and marital status and relationships of family members.
  • A separate bedroom is allocated to each married or cohabiting couple; adults aged 21 years or more; pair of adolescents aged 10-20 years of the same sex and a pair of children aged under 10 years regardless of sex.
  • This standard is then compared with the number of bedrooms available for the sole use of the household. Under this standard the family described above would be entitled to three bedrooms rather than one.
  • Under the bedroom standard it is estimated that nationally 500,000 households are overcrowded.

https://web5.hullcc.gov.uk/akshull/images/att4694.doc

looby75

those rules are for housing, not for a holiday.

Simbacat

Of course it is OK - we were always in the same position as this, our daughter is 2 years older than her brother and we refused to pay 2 single supplements whenever we went on holiday. It isn't like at home where their bedrooms are their own little bolt holes, a holiday bedroom is just for sleeping in. Whenever one wanted peace and quiet for a bath etc, the other would come into our room to watch tele or go for a wander around the hotel.

In fact our 2 are coming on holiday with us again this year (both in their early 20s now so we are delighted that they can drag themselves away from their exciting lives to keep poor mum and dad happy), probably the last time it will ever be just the 4 of us. We are lucky to have got a good deal on a junior suite so they won't have to share but both have said they wouldn't be bothered if they did have to - they spent most of their teenage years ignoring each other they could easily do it again for a fortnight if necessary lol!

I think some people try to make these situations much more complicated than they need to be!

peachyprice

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

https://web5.hullcc.gov.uk/akshull/images/att4694.doc

!!!!!! does that have to do with a 2 week holiday

sabretoothtigger

I'd say its fine for a holiday but normally it'd qualify as overcrowding if you live in hull