Best of Europe in 14 days - triple room?

Our family of three, including a young adult, has been on four RS tours, with a fifth coming up this summer. We have always gone with the triple rooms even though RS recommends against it, and we've always been comfortable. I think your 16-year-old should be fine.

On the England tour, there were hotels where triple rooms weren't available, and at those hotels our young adult got her own room - and didn't have to pay the single supplement!

Being in a triple doesn't necessarily mean a rollaway. It may be a sofa bed.

That’s great to hear! The “cot” and the recommendation to not have 3 adults in a room had me concerned.
Were any of your RS tours specifically the Best of Europe 14 day?

Although I'm a solo traveler, I often book hotels very late and sometimes end up in rooms with extra beds. I suspect the discouragement concerning triples may be more about tight quarters in such a room rather than the comfort of the bed.

I know room size increases as you move up the hotel-quality (and -price) scale; square footage is one of the determinants of hotel class. I stay down at the budget end of the continuum, and I have had some extremely small rooms. On one occasion I was in a very small double room, and I couldn't for the life of me see a place to put a second suitcase (however small) on the floor where it wouldn't be tripped over. For a light-packing solo traveler it doesn't necessarily matter (I don't mind a "cozy" room at all), but with three people in some rooms you might find yourselves bumping into each other. Perhaps not in the class of hotel the tours use, but I recommend expecting to be a bit crowded. That way, you'll really appreciate any spacious rooms you get assigned to.

If there’s a choice, I’d rather be comfortably sleeping in a cozy room than being in an uncomfortable bed in a more spacious room! Thanks for the reply!

Hotel selection varies by departure date but most of the hotels that I see being used by the tour have at least one "true" triple room with normal-looking beds.

That’s good to know! 👍

Were any of your RS tours specifically the Best of Europe 14 day?

Hi Kathy, our family of three took the BOE14 four years ago, with our then 18-y/o daughter, and had no issues with rooms at each stop. If you want to PM me, I'll provide the names of hotels where we stayed so you can get a sense (from their websites) what each offers. Obviously tour hotels can change from year-to-year, even within the same year given season and availability. But there are a couple hotels on that tour which seem to be constant (Beaune's Hotel des Remparts, for example).

Thank you so much! I’m feeling much better about the triple room!

We didn't do BoE. We did Venice-Florence-Rome, Belgium-Netherlands, Best of England, and GAS.