My friends and I have done a fair amount of vacation-rental-ing for our annual reunion, and it's kinda nice to have a variety of options. I imagine this is the same for families -- a queen for the parents, a couple of full size beds for other couples or very tall teenage sons, and two twin beds for little kids who will otherwise kick each other all night and keep everyone awake? But for simplicity's sake maybe 3 full-size beds and one room with twin beds?
Hmm, skimming the comments it seems that larger beds are, in fact necessary. My friends and I have done all our renting while in our 20s -- and while we are more mature than your average bunch of twenty-somethings, we've only recently begun to feel it's worth paying to have bed space (as opposed to couches and cots) for everyone. Then again, we rent houses that fit 20 people, so it's kind of a different scene entirely. I suppose that if people are paying real money they want to have real beds. :)
i sleep in a full-sized bed at home, so that's fine with me. the last time's i've traveled have been with kids, and even when traveling with my mom, we've had full sized beds. i know bigger people complain about the length of a full sized bed, though.
We have a fold-away that we would put there. That does raise the issue of needing twin sheets for that, at least.
Hmmm. It looks like I'm going to need bedding for twins, fulls, queen and a king, too! Arrgggh!
One idea that we had was to make the sheets all color coordinated, so, say, Queen sheets are green, King sheets are dark blue, Twin sheets are White and Full sheets are Yellow.
But, still, this is a fortune in bedding. I would have to have doubles of everything so we could change beds and make them up with what was on hand before we get the old ones laundered. Right now in our own house we have a spare in every size of everything (sheets, mattress pad covers, blankets, bedspreads) but not a spare for EVERY bed. We never change all the beds at the exact same time, so something has had time to get laundered. So, for example, we have three full sized beds in our house and four mattress pads in a full size.
In a vacation rental I'm going to have to stock a lot more linens. :-(
The vacation rentals I've been in have had 2 sets of sheets, but no spare mattress pads or bedspreads. There was an extra blanket (and a couple of extra pillows) in each bedroom, but not a full set of everything on the beds.
Same here. A queen is okay, but I prefer a king in at least one bedroom. The kids can have twin or sofa beds or roll-away cots, but by golly, if I am paying hard-earned cash I want these old bones to be comfortable.
My husband and I prefer a full-sized bed. We only bought a queen-sized bed after we had the second child in two years and the family didn't quite fit in the double anymore. Now that there aren't any babies left sleeping with us we wouldn't mind going back to a double.
Time was, we used to sleep together in a single bed that wasn't even up against a wall. (We we thinner then, though.)
My mother has a king-sized bed in a tiny bedroom. We think *that* is insane. Our whole family could fit on a king-sized bed, and she lives alone! There's no room for a dresser or even barely to walk around the bed.
In our camper we had a queen plus and a double bed. B. and I took the double bed and the three children all laid out their sleeping bags on the queen sized bed, with duffel bags in between to cut down on punching.
Wow. I think people used to be used to sleeping squished (hence a full being called a "double" but when my husband and need to share a queen we can't get comfortable. It may be whatever you are used to, but I do think you will need one or two queen beds. :)
Here in my corner of Maine, older houses don't have rooms big enough to accommodate king size beds. If I didn't want anyone touching me while I sleep, I'd sleep alone.
I don't care how large the bed is as long as it's comfortable. My MIL's guest bed is soooooo comfortable. It's a double, not a queen, but I never feel like it's too small.
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Hmmm. It looks like I'm going to need bedding for twins, fulls, queen and a king, too! Arrgggh!
One idea that we had was to make the sheets all color coordinated, so, say, Queen sheets are green, King sheets are dark blue, Twin sheets are White and Full sheets are Yellow.
But, still, this is a fortune in bedding. I would have to have doubles of everything so we could change beds and make them up with what was on hand before we get the old ones laundered. Right now in our own house we have a spare in every size of everything (sheets, mattress pad covers, blankets, bedspreads) but not a spare for EVERY bed. We never change all the beds at the exact same time, so something has had time to get laundered. So, for example, we have three full sized beds in our house and four mattress pads in a full size.
In a vacation rental I'm going to have to stock a lot more linens. :-(
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Time was, we used to sleep together in a single bed that wasn't even up against a wall. (We we thinner then, though.)
My mother has a king-sized bed in a tiny bedroom. We think *that* is insane. Our whole family could fit on a king-sized bed, and she lives alone! There's no room for a dresser or even barely to walk around the bed.
In our camper we had a queen plus and a double bed. B. and I took the double bed and the three children all laid out their sleeping bags on the queen sized bed, with duffel bags in between to cut down on punching.
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