Shotgun on the Master Bedroom!

When you plan a Girlfriend Getaway that involves multiple girls and multiple bedrooms, how do you decide who gets which one? In many rental houses, or condos, there is one Master Bedroom, a few regular bedrooms and then probably a pullout couch in the living room. If everyone is paying the same amount, then, ideally, everyone has an equal right to the Master Bedroom (which usually has an attached bathroom with a great jacuzzi tub).

If there was one main trip-planner, she should get first pick of accommodations. Why? She did all the work. You just sat back and waited for the detailed email telling you what, when, where and how much. Travel planning is a LOT of work, and the planner should have some sort of "reward".

If the trip was planned for you, by someone not on the trip, the only truly fair way to designate room assignments is something like this:

1) Come up with identifying names for each room (Master, Bunk Beds, Punishment Pull-out)

2) Write these names on pieces of paper - if the room accommodates 2 people, make two entries for that room.

3) Put pieces of paper into a hat (or bowl, or whatever else is handy that holds stuff)

4) Have each girl draw a piece of paper (I picked Bunk Beds - I'm on top!)

This may seem unnecessary, and if your group can easily work out the room situation without a big kerfuffle, fantastic.

If not? Try the above.

No one wants to spend a weekend seething with resentment because they got stuck in the sleeping bag on the kitchen floor, next to the leaky dishwasher.