Hi - I am one of two women traveling together to Germany and Austria in October, and have just started to research hotels. We would like to get rooms with two double, or at least two single beds, and I've been encountering a problem as the hotels seem to only offer one queen bed per room. We would rather not share a bed! Are two-bedded rooms uncommon in this part of Europe? It hasn't been a problem anywhere else we've traveled. I don't mind the two-twin-beds pushed together arrangement; just would prefer a separate bed.

I am thinking I may have to resort to American chain hotels, like Holiday Inn Express, in order to get the room configuration we are seeking.

Have you looked at some of the sights that allow yuo to search by specific parameters? If you start there it can help you identify hotels that have rooms with 2 beds (must admit I have seen some in German cities but not in the countryside) and you can then search for less expensive options for the same hotels.

If you plug in two people in booking.com and search for hotels, many places will come up as having either doubles or twin rooms. You can click on "twin" and see that they do mean 2 single beds.

I beg your pardon? One queen bed in a double room is absolutely uncommon in Germany. We call them "French beds", which already indicates quite a bit. The standard are two separate single beds pushed together. It's rather the international chain hotels that are likely to have the big beds.

Hi Azzure,

I'm traveling to Germany/Austria this summer with a friend and know exactly what you're talking about--I encountered the same thing. You could ask for a triple--that way there would be at least two beds in the room, or just keep searching--the twin rooms do exist, but they're rare.

Patti

Thanks for the replies. Mama_mia, you are right about booking.com...it does show which hotels have twin rooms so I may have to book through them.

I have to say following up on Quokka's comments that it looks like many of the doubles pictured could be pulled apart as singles.

And also, you could still book directly with hotel if you choose after your search.

mama_mia; yes of course I will probably book with the hotels directly. Quokka's comments are welcome, but the first five or six hotels I checked had only one queen bed per room. Maybe I was just unlucky. I am familiar with, and was expecting, the two twins pushed together arrangement, as that seems to be very common in Europe.

Have been to europe more than 90 time s- and stayed in all sorts of hotels and have NEVER seen 2 twin beds pushed together to make a double, Granted we always tried to book a queen (since kings barely exist) but at times have had to take doubles - and they were all real doubles. Perhaps it's a function of the type of hotel. Those that specialize in tour groups I believe often have rooms with 2 separate beds.

I have found booking.com to be a great website for booking hotels in Germany. In fact, in several instances, we received better rates than offered by the hotel's own website.

Quokka is right. Virtually every hotel I've stayed in has two twin beds pushed together.

I always stay in smaller hotels--not American style hotels.

Yes, nytraveler, if you have customarily traveled as a couple and booked queens or doubles, it's likely that you would not have seen the pushed-together-twin arrangement. I've stayed in many hotels that do this. However, at first glance I was not finding that in Germany -- five different hotels told me my options were sharing a queen bed, or booking two single rooms. And Patti (above) apparently has had the same experience. Weird.

Over the past 18+ year with nearly a year travel in Europe, we have frequently encounter the two twins push together for one bed especially when booking a double. The key is to look for a twin room. Don't book a triple unless you want to pay for three people.