To me, it makes sense to give largest room to party with the greatest need for space.
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We once had pleasant surprise to get upgraded from small apartment to nicer apartment at our budget-ish place in Venice (a small hotel recommended in Rick Steves guidebook). It had TWO wonderful full bathrooms. Interestingly though the 2nd “bedroom” was pullout couch in the living room, which we were prepared for since that was the case in the original small apartment too. The grown kid kids did not love sharing a bed, but it was only one night … and they knew the location near Mark’s Square was fabulous.
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We sometimes bring an inflatable mattress for that situation. And if no space to bring one on a flight..they’re only about $25-30 at Target.
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My daughter just returned from a long vacation with a group of 5 friends. There were three different hotel stays involved. In two of them there were 2 rooms - one triple and one double. In the other hotel there were 3 rooms - 2 doubles and one single. They tried to be fair and mix it up between stays Over the course of the vacation my daughter had a single, a double, and a triple.
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I can tell you who NEVER gets it- ME! Never, ever, ever. I was the third oldest so never rose to the top at home (a la Greg Bradygetting the attic even when Marcia needed more room because she was a woman), not on vacations, not when my parents had friends over who needed a room and the best one to give them was MINE.
My sister has the master bathroom as hers. Her husband has to use the one in the room next to theirs, which is his work from home office if he WFH. First husband had to go down 2 flights to the basement. This probably has something to do with us having to share our bathroom with 4 brothers and a grandfather while growing up. We aren’t ceding bathroom space.
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We don’t vacation with anyone (not since the kids started going on vacation themselves), but we do have a small family cottage. None of the rooms is anything to write home about, and each has a bit of a drawback. The front bedroom has a full bed; it is right off the main living area so if anyone is up, it’s noisy. The middle bedroom has a trundle bed; the people who use the back bedroom have to walk through the middle bedroom to get to the back bedroom (not sure what my in laws were thinking when they decided to add the back bedroom like that!). The back bedroom has a queen bed and a half bath; you have to walk through the other bedroom to get to it & it’s just a bifold door separating the two bedrooms.
So we figure things out based on who’s there. No one gets upset because the rooms all have their quirks!
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There are definitely two-bath hotels, though we’ve only had a bath-and-a-half a few times. I’m not really sure what DH does when he needs the bathroom. I’ve never thought to ask. 
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I had never heard of 2 toilets in 1 bathroom before.
Lately when we’ve reserved hotel rooms, if the price is the same, I opt for 2 beds. This way if either kid wants to join us, there’s a bed for them. D has joined us several times and S has joined me at least once (when the transformer blew up and his condo lost power—he said no power was ok but no water was not and he thought I may have an extra bed—haha!)
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I think that second one is the evil bidet.
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Ah - I was talking about my acquaintance who actually had 2 toilets, plain ole American ones, in 1 BR. Yeah - the hotel bathroom bidet - that makes sense.
I watch a lot of luxuey real estate shows!
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Guess you wouldn’t stay in a hotel with the bathroom down the hall.
I have stayed in such hotels, which were nice but basic hotels in desired locations otherwise, if you do not mind the bathroom arrangement (like a college dorm, but each bathroom was a single user bathroom).
We have stayed in hotels with bathrooms down the hall. It can be a considerable savings but as we get older and are more likely to need one or more nocturnal bathroom trips, H has vetoed bathrooms down the hall (except when staying with loved ones—no en suite bathrooms there).
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We are going for the second year to an Airbnb on a lake in upstate New York. The rental has 4 double bedrooms for the 8 people attending. Sounds perfect except 2 of the guests (my brothers) are single so someone has to sleep elsewhere. No problem, my bff has a house nearby with an extra bedroom so my husband and I will sleep there. Except she has a full house the first weekend we are there so I have reserved a room at the inn next door to the Airbnb for that weekend. My husband wants to know why the person doing all the planning (me) doesn’t get the best room. Well, because this is the only way I can get us all together for one week a year. And who knows how many years we have left.
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You are a very good sport! I don’t understand why your brother’s can’t share a room and maybe one use an air mattress if they don’t want to share a bed.
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We once stayed at the Palmer House in Chicago in a room with two bathrooms - not a suite. I think it once had been two tiny rooms that were combined and they just left the bathrooms in place.
Just checked; they still exist - rooms with two double beds and two baths.
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When we travel with our kids, I am the planner, and I try hard to find options with similar room set ups (and always make sure everyone has their own bathroom). Since I am the planner, DH and I always take the primary bed (when we stay in a rental).
Older D also does a yearly beach trip with her husband’s family. In their family, the oldest child gets first pick of the rooms and each subsequent child gets to pick. They don’t always choose homes that have similarly sized rooms. This results in D and her DH often getting the worst pick and a shared bathroom. D finally put her foot down one year and said that they would happily stay in a hotel so they could spread out and be more comfortable. Her in laws took the hint and now only book houses where everyone has similar rooms and private bathrooms. They still do room picks the same way, which irks D.
I travel yearly with my group of 12 college friends (all women). We always do a rental house (except one year we did a cruise). Over the years the type of accommodation we stay in has sometimes been a sticking point, as far as number of bedrooms & baths. None of us mind sharing but we’ve decreed that there needs to be a minimum of 4 baths, so no more than 3 of us sharing a bath and no more than 2 of us sharing a bedroom (unless it’s a big room with multiple beds, commonly seen in beach rentals). Whoever is the planner for a given year automatically gets the primary bed/bath in any rental we’ve stayed in.
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Geeze, I would think as adults even the oldest kid would suggest they alternate who gets first pick that year.
I remember when my husband’s mom died they had to pick who wanted what. For each category they alternated who got first pick, and then went down the line from there.
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Definite no.
Unlike all of you who like to travel, I don’t, and the idea of sharing a house with multiple people makes my skin crawl. Hotels solve the problem; everyone gets their own bed and bath, and room service if they want it. And the faster we can all get back to our own beds/baths, the better.
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