To book a 6 person lodge for myself?

They might have someone who wants to book that date and pay for six people. It's a business and they way they work is to try and make a profit.

It amazes me that people don’t understand how business works. If they’re barely breaking even they need to rethink their business model.

What you don’t do is enter into a contract and then cancel the contract in the hope of getting a better one. If you do you will forfeit repeat business.

This.

A tent? I had to make do with a bit of tarp and a bed of nettles. And enjoy it. 😁

OP you said this is planned for October, any chance you picked half term? I live in a seaside town and know people with holiday businesses and half term in October is the last hurrah before businesses either close or go very quiet for a few months. Because of that maximizing what they do that week can be pretty vital for some.

Obviously it might not be half term but if it is that could explain the issue for that particular week.

You know the state of the business? You know if they are barely breaking even?

It always amazes me on here that people know so much about other people and their lives and finances.

Erm, no. A one-off weekend with a smaller amount of income than they could theoretically achieve, is not "negatively impacting their business".

Out of interest, up to what point do you think the business is correct to say to the OP ah sorry no we've changed our mind? Wait a few weeks, until she's made other plans & it's harder for her to change her mind and go elsewhere? Or right up to the point where she turns up and say, oh it's only you - we've decided you don't need two whole bedrooms to yourself, so we've changed your booking?

If you buy a loaf of bread for £2 and the shopkeeper then goes oh hold on actually that's too much bread for just you, let me take that one away and give you a smaller one - do you still think "no-one's right and no-one's wrong"?

The business has made an offer; the OP has accepted it and agreed to it, entering in to a contract; now the business is saying "oh hold on, you should've guessed that we weren't offering this to you, you can't have this". How on earth can anyone argue that this is "not right but not wrong either"? Obviously they can say oh we made a mistake, would you mind changing; and they can cancel the booking and refuse to honour it, and risk the OP taking further action; but that doesn't make them right...

But it's two weeks if you are in an area with Tattie holidays. And in Angus they start October 4 but in Aberdeenshire not til October 11 going back October 28

I'm in Glasgow so I know how the October week works.

Is it just a site with lodges or does it have pool, activities, restaurant etc?

I can see more where they are coming from if the latter as six people in what is probably the school holidays in Scotland is likely to generate a much higher spend on site.

If it's just accommodation can't see what difference it makes.

Either way the booking system should be set up accordingly.

It’s a maths based issue only insofar as you need to work on yours. If they want more than OP is renting it for they need to increase the price. 🤣

My DH and I often stay in properties for 8 people. I like the space. I live in a cramped flat in RL. Holidays are a splurge for me. That might be why I live in a cramped place. 🤔

See my post above. Scotland doesn't have a fixed half-term week in October like happens in England. Holidays are set locally and this year Scottish kids will get 1-2 weeks off somewhere between 4 and 28 October depending on where they live. It's also not half term because our Autumn term finishes at the October break and the Winter term starts when the kids return.

There are school holidays throughout most of October somewhere in Scotland though so midweek bookings will be popular too. Kids get 1-2 weeks off depending on the area, and the date vary across the country too. Some areas break up as early as Friday 4 October, and the latest don't return to school until Monday 28 October which I expect is the start of the English half term? Unless you've booked the w/b 30 September I can see why they would want you to move to smaller accommodation so they can charge more to a larger family, but you've paid the going rate to have single occupancy so I think it's fair enough to go ahead.

But if they charged a flat rate they wouldn’t get any more or less regardless of the number of people sfaying there, so where is the maths issue?

They are being unreasonable asking OP to downgrade just because she’s single.

Nope, it’s a math based issue. If OP rented a smaller one and the larger one was rented they’d want more than just OP renting the larger one. As I said, neither party is right or wrong and they’re perfectly entitled to ask.

😂🙄 your response is far more dramatic (as evidenced by the fact that I’ve clearly said neither party is right or wrong but you’ve clearly chosen to ignore that bit, what can you do eh) than mine and the “cheeky twats” is in reference to people saying exactly that. If the income is lower than the business could earn by asking OP to book a different thing and they get the full income from people in said 6 person property then it is negatively impacting them, that a simple fact and has zero emotion attached to it.

Umm, because their mistake caused the inconvenience? Why should OP be inconvenienced by their mistake?

Hi ye sorry I was in a rush when I replied I must have picked you up wrong.

i was a bit sharp sorry.

Because there's been several threads recently where single and/or childless/child free people have been told they're unworthy of the things other people enjoy. Shouldn't have time off at Xmas. Shouldn't expect to live in anything bigger than a shoebox. Don't need a garden. Etc etc.

OP could only "take 5 friends" if she wanted an unpleasantly overcrowded experience with the sitting room turned into a bedroom. It's a 2 bedroom house. There's an advertised price for 2-person occupancy which OP has paid so the owners aren't losing out on anything.

YANBU to book the cottage.
They should change their pricing strategy if they don't want to lose money by having one person booking the six-person cottage compared to six people. They could charge for the entire unit, irrespective of how many people are staying. They could charge an underoccupancy rate. They could restrict bookings to a minimum of 4 persons. They could have different pricing strategies for low and high season use. Plenty of things they could do.
I think they would be unreasonable to cancel the OP's booking and they should suck this one up and then consider changing the pricing for the future if it doesn't suit them.

What dates in October have you booked? I'm wondering if they clash with the Scottish half term holidays and they hadn't realised at first?

But that isn't how the business charges. The OP was given a price by the business.