Ridiculous problem that I should be able to deal with

My cousin (male, 8 months older than me [he's just turned 40]), lives in Paris and I haven't seen him for about, hmm, at least 8 years. He's absolutely my favourite cousin, we talk on messenger a lot despite my broken French and his broken English...

He just messaged me this evening to say his relationship has broken down and he wants to come on his own to the UK to visit us, in less than a fortnight's time.

Now he's been twice before since we've lived in this house (several times prior to me having had kids, but the situation was different then). The first time my kids were very young. He brought a previous girlfriend with him and they slept in our living room (using the sofa, and an air bed), but we quickly realised that was a terrible idea. Just far too many people in the house, and it became really awkward trying to tiptoe around them.

So when they came again a couple of years later, they thankfully stayed in a hotel.

But now he's coming on his own, he's implied that as it's just him, he's expecting us to put him up.
Now of course I want to see him, but there's just no way he can sleep here. We've already got 6 people in a three bedroomed house, five of which are studying from home every single day, and one of whom is diabled. It's just not feasible at all.

I just don't know quite how to tell him he's going to have to get a hotel without sounding like a jerk.

I realise this is a ridiculous problem, and at my age I should jolly well just be able to deal with this straightforwardly, but I don't want him thinking I'm fobbing him off, or that I'm being inhospitable.

I sort of feel as though he ought really to have offered to stay in a hotel in the first place so that I wouldn't now be in this predicament, but he's always been a little scatterbrained, and he has no kids of his own so I don't think he quite realises what a massive inconvenience a sudden random house-guest is for a family with four kids that already juggles with space. Plus I have no idea what his financial situation is like... what if he feels I'm being unreasonable because he can't afford a hotel?

Any ideas on how I can tactfully direct him to a hotel without seeming inhospitable?

My cousin (male, 8 months older than me [he's just turned 40]), lives in Paris and I haven't seen him for about, hmm, at least 8 years. He's absolutely my favourite cousin, we talk on messenger a lot despite my broken French and his broken English...

He just messaged me this evening to say his relationship has broken down and he wants to come on his own to the UK to visit us, in less than a fortnight's time.

Now he's been twice before since we've lived in this house (several times prior to me having had kids, but the situation was different then). The first time my kids were very young. He brought a previous girlfriend with him and they slept in our living room (using the sofa, and an air bed), but we quickly realised that was a terrible idea. Just far too many people in the house, and it became really awkward trying to tiptoe around them.

So when they came again a couple of years later, they thankfully stayed in a hotel.

But now he's coming on his own, he's implied that as it's just him, he's expecting us to put him up.
Now of course I want to see him, but there's just no way he can sleep here. We've already got 6 people in a three bedroomed house, five of which are studying from home every single day, and one of whom is diabled. It's just not feasible at all.

I just don't know quite how to tell him he's going to have to get a hotel without sounding like a jerk.

I realise this is a ridiculous problem, and at my age I should jolly well just be able to deal with this straightforwardly, but I don't want him thinking I'm fobbing him off, or that I'm being inhospitable.

I sort of feel as though he ought really to have offered to stay in a hotel in the first place so that I wouldn't now be in this predicament, but he's always been a little scatterbrained, and he has no kids of his own so I don't think he quite realises what a massive inconvenience a sudden random house-guest is for a family with four kids that already juggles with space. Plus I have no idea what his financial situation is like... what if he feels I'm being unreasonable because he can't afford a hotel?

Any ideas on how I can tactfully direct him to a hotel without seeming inhospitable?

My cousin (male, 8 months older than me [he's just turned 40]), lives in Paris and I haven't seen him for about, hmm, at least 8 years. He's absolutely my favourite cousin, we talk on messenger a lot despite my broken French and his broken English...

He just messaged me this evening to say his relationship has broken down and he wants to come on his own to the UK to visit us, in less than a fortnight's time.

Now he's been twice before since we've lived in this house (several times prior to me having had kids, but the situation was different then). The first time my kids were very young. He brought a previous girlfriend with him and they slept in our living room (using the sofa, and an air bed), but we quickly realised that was a terrible idea. Just far too many people in the house, and it became really awkward trying to tiptoe around them.

So when they came again a couple of years later, they thankfully stayed in a hotel.

But now he's coming on his own, he's implied that as it's just him, he's expecting us to put him up.
Now of course I want to see him, but there's just no way he can sleep here. We've already got 6 people in a three bedroomed house, five of which are studying from home every single day, and one of whom is diabled. It's just not feasible at all.

I just don't know quite how to tell him he's going to have to get a hotel without sounding like a jerk.

I realise this is a ridiculous problem, and at my age I should jolly well just be able to deal with this straightforwardly, but I don't want him thinking I'm fobbing him off, or that I'm being inhospitable.

I sort of feel as though he ought really to have offered to stay in a hotel in the first place so that I wouldn't now be in this predicament, but he's always been a little scatterbrained, and he has no kids of his own so I don't think he quite realises what a massive inconvenience a sudden random house-guest is for a family with four kids that already juggles with space. Plus I have no idea what his financial situation is like... what if he feels I'm being unreasonable because he can't afford a hotel?

Any ideas on how I can tactfully direct him to a hotel without seeming inhospitable?