My friend booked an Airbnb for a group of us going on vacation. Originally there were 7 going and the house has 3 bedrooms that the listing said all had queen beds. This included 1 couple, the rest of us are single.
The friend who booked the place had told me and others (I thought everyone) that the couple would get a bedroom, the two boys would share another bedroom, and the three of us girls would share the upstairs room that includes a bed on one end and a couch on the other that one of us would take. As the vacation grew nearer 2 people dropped off – a single boy and the girl who booked the place.
Myself and the other single girl got in first and went to the room we had previously been “assigned”, dropped our bags then went to the kitchen to eat. It’s worth noting that this room has no door to it and is set up like a studio with a bed on one end and couch on the other and includes the only TV in the place. The couple got there 30 min later and we let them know we’d taken the room upstairs so they chose one of the rooms downstairs, and the singleton boy arrived last and took the last room. We were all in a rush to get to a scheduled activity so no one looked around the place much, just changed and left. The couple came back early and we all chatted when the rest of us got back then everyone went to bed. It wasn’t until I was getting into bed that I noticed the bed we were in was actually a king.
The next morning I was in the kitchen making coffee with the couple who said they’d had a horrible nights sleep because their bed was smaller than they were used to and then said they knew ours was a king and wanted to switch. It was early and the way they were talking was more rude and accusatory that we hadn’t waited to all pick rooms when everyone got there and had simply chosen since we were first. They left for their planned activity before we got a chance to talk it over. That night we got back and everyone went to dinner together then home to shower.
After my shower I went downstairs to talk to them to discover they were in their room with the door shut. I knocked on the door and then texted asking to talk and the wife came out and again said it was rude of us to pick a room first, “gatekeep” the bigger room from them, and not be immediately willing to switch. I said that I wished they would’ve said something before we had all slept in the beds and unpacked, but if it’s a friendship breaker we are willing to switch. She said her husband was already asleep and it was too late to switch that night but they may switch for tonight. Keep in mind that it’s only 8pm. I rejoined the other 2 singles and we watched TV upstairs until bed.
TLDR: AITAH for taking a room without waiting for everyone to arrive and choose even though Airbnb said all 3 rooms had queen beds, we went to the one previously assigned to us when it had been a bigger group, and I really didn’t think the couple would want their bedroom to have no door and be in the same room as the TV aka people would be in their space watching it.
