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Hotel Rooms - Sofa Bed Question

We are traveling with 3 grown adults (some of us a little fluffy-myself included). To save, we would like to be in one hotel room each night. I am finding the norm is one large bed and a sleeper sofa. Are these sofa beds as suspect and uncomfortable as they are in the states? I've only found a few options for triple rooms with 3 singles so far so deciding if we should chance it.

Thanks!

Posted by
194 posts

Fwiw, I've always found the sofa beds in France to be of much (!) higher quality than the ones in the states. I'd have no qualms about sleeping on one, in fact, have on occasion.

A friend of mine and I rented an apartment where she'll sleep on one for a week this Spring. She's traveled in France enough to agree with me and she has no qualms about it as well.

YMMV

Posted by
511 posts

I have travelled on many trips with two friends and we always booked rooms with three single beds.. They can be found - we had three beds in one room in hotels in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, etc. as well in smaller towns. That being said, sometimes the 3rd bed will be a cot rather than a regular twin sized bed. One of the ladies is very petite and hasn't minded being in the smallest bed. I'm sorry, don't have any experience with the sofa beds. I would guess that they are probably as uncomfortable as the majority of the ones in the U.S. are.

Posted by
8602 posts

No expert. but when we had three person rooms traveling with our daughter years ago when she was a young teen, that sofa bed was often sort of like a small day bed -- okay for a kid but I wouldn't want to sleep on one.

There are plenty of 3 person rooms that have 3 single beds (two can be put together as a large double which is typical in French hotel rooms. I'd go for that unless the person booking the room is willing to sleep on the sofabed.