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Another splitting costs with family

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Bananapants5 · 23/02/2025 16:33

Weekend trip with family

Parents (pensioners)
Sibling 1 - with husband and 2 children (young)
Sibling 2 - with husband - teen children not interested in coming.

Wanting to book 4 bed place due to ages of sibling 1s children
How should cost be split?

Split into 8 and then each family pay cost? (YABU)
Split among 6 adults? (YANBU)

To not drip feed the cost of 4 bed place is no more than a 3 bed place

OP posts:
Samung · 23/02/2025 17:01

If you use two rooms surely you pay for two rooms? I agree with cheddercherry above - to a certain extent I'd say this does depend on how other family members have been treated when taking children away. You kind of need a principle and apply it to all the trips. In my family we've always split depending on the rooms we use, so we'd stick with that regardless of the cost of the house.

julia08 · 23/02/2025 17:01

Split three ways (1/3 per household).

cheddercherry · 23/02/2025 16:51

If it’s genuinely no different in price then just split three ways.

If there’s a difference then it depends on previous context: if sibling 2 has already had years of paying extra for their now teen kids before these younger kids came along then I don’t think the rules should shift now if sibling 1 doesn’t want to pay the extra rooms for their kids, if their sibling has always covered the extra cost of their children in the past.

Awrite · 23/02/2025 16:50

I think I might suggest the children cost half. So, split between seven.

Whatnowthenfordone · 23/02/2025 16:50

Split between the six adults.

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Bananapants5 · 23/02/2025 16:50

Therealmetherealme · 23/02/2025 16:47

Are you one of the siblings?

I am one of the siblings

OP posts:
Therealmetherealme · 23/02/2025 16:47

Are you one of the siblings?

Changingplace · 23/02/2025 16:42

Samung · 23/02/2025 16:41

Split per room.

Even though the bigger place is no more expensive? Seems an odd way to split it.

Changingplace · 23/02/2025 16:41

Londoner24 · 23/02/2025 16:36

Split among adults only - esp as cost of 4 bed place is no more than a 3 bed

Agreed, if the four bedroom place was more expensive then I’d say the family needing the extra room should pay more but as it’s the same price this seems the fairest most sensible way.

Samung · 23/02/2025 16:41

Split per room.

Londoner24 · 23/02/2025 16:36

Split among adults only - esp as cost of 4 bed place is no more than a 3 bed