Six adults, one bathroom, and a vacation rental nobody wants to question

The rental looked generous in the listing: three bedrooms, a long dining table, a porch, and enough beds for all six of us. We focused so hard on sleeping arrangements that nobody counted the bathrooms.

There is one.

I noticed before booking and wrote in the group chat, “One bathroom okay?” Five people reacted with check marks. At the time, it sounded like a small tradeoff for a house we could afford. Now the trip is a week away, arrival times are coming together, and the details have become less theoretical.

Two people take long showers. One friend needs quiet time to get ready. Another has already announced that she cannot leave the house without doing her hair. Our first morning includes a reservation with a fixed start time. Suddenly the bathroom is not a room; it is a six-person scheduling system with a lock.

I raised it again, hoping someone would say we should change rentals. Instead, everybody became aggressively easygoing. “We'll figure it out.” “I can be quick.” “It's only three nights.” These are lovely sentiments from people who have never all tried to brush their teeth at once.

There may be no problem. Adults can coordinate. The house has mirrors in the bedrooms, and not every part of getting ready requires plumbing. But I know how this group handles mild inconvenience: nobody complains directly, two people rush, and resentment appears later as jokes.

Changing the booking could cost more, and the exact cancellation terms need to be verified with the current listing and provider. Keeping it means accepting the constraint honestly rather than calling it charming.

Would you create a loose morning schedule before the trip, ask only the people with fixed needs to claim time, or trust everyone to negotiate on site? More importantly, if the group approved the listing without thinking it through, does the person who booked it still carry extra responsibility for making the bottleneck work?