hotel beds
No
Not at home either
What B said. More importantly, why would a parent let their kids risk injury that way?
Why are you asking, anyway?
I did when they were little (and not really in danger of breaking the bed). They have energy to burn, and on a trip, they don’t always have a good way to burn it off. We always try to get a hotel with a swimming pool, but when they were little, I let them bounce away.
No, because I don’t let them do it at home and I’m certainly not going to teach them that they can ignore rules when they are in someone else’s space. Note that the phrase for people staying in a hotel is “guests” - so we are all expected to behave as guests. The bouncing can make noise as the bed thumps against the floor, and irritate the guests on the floor below. And if someone goes off the edge and hits their head on the nightstand, now you’re in a new city without access to your pediatrician. Dumb move.
I think it makes sense to travel with kids to family-friendly hotels where there are things like a pool, a small mini golf course or perhaps a small arcade.
For the record, I also don’t let my kids play on the internet without supervision, where they contact sites when they don’t have the maturity to read the purpose of the site. I wouldn’t let them waste other people’s time. I’d work with them to develop more common sense and a much healthier sense of manners and decency.
Flips, never, but I used to jump on my bed as a toddler, I wasn’t heavy, but mom would put a stop to it due to the possibility of injury, so it didn’t happen much at all. An older child could easily break the springs on the bed, not to mention, the ever-present risk of injury. Why risk it? Go to a gym that offers tumbling classes, trampolines, and mats, instead.