How would you split the holiday costs

We always just split everything by person. So a family of 5 pays the single rate x 5, family of 2 x2 etc. In my opinion number of rooms used and age of people/kids in relation to food is just splitting hairs in my opinion. Who wants to be all pinickity about it?!

We actually have this exact situation and we split thirds, every time and no question.

I am part of the family who is most financially disadvantaged by the way we split it if you look at it that way, but we (my husband and I) don’t - we just share between the families.

However, I also know that if I said we wanted to split it by person etc everyone would agree no problem too.

I’d split the accommodation by three - the extra room is neither here nor there. Kitty for food costs, £x amount per person and top up as required. I wouldn’t go on holiday with people I’d worry about money with.

Food take it in turns to buy and shop and cook.
So they in control of that days spends.
Plus kitty items cereals tea bags milk. ÷ 3 families
Use split wise.
If people are going to fuss down to last euro and who drank the last beer and who ate that piece of cheese then do not go on holiday with them

You’re probably best not having this kind of holiday, you’d spend a lot of time being annoyed.

When we've been away as a group we've split accomodation by room and for food we've said: Under 2 0, 2-5 quarter, 5-12 half, over 12 and adults 1. Then add up and split by each family's "score". Booze split between adults.

We have almost the same configuration whenever we travel with a group of friends and it's always done by bedroom so the largest family are paying 3/7ths and so on. Food wise we usually just group it into families and split it evenly by 3.

Accommodation costs 1/3 each with the agreement that the family taking 3 rooms will take the smaller ones.
Food : adults + kids 14/15/17 counted as one share, younger kids as a half share.

I have never really understood why liking/loving someone means you should be happy to pay over your fair share.
I vote for divide by bedroom costs and for meals try and reflect the actual costs a little bit i.e. if anyone has a DC still on children’s meals they pay a little less.

Agreed

Into 3! - I would keep it simple. I'm presuming you like/love these people that you're holidaying with.

Rental cost 3:2:2 and food cost a third each.

I would just divide the house cost by 3. You will still all be using living spaces, kitchen, outdoor per family, and it’s easiest. I doubt a 7 bed v 6 bed house to rent was that much difference as it’s already big

Food cost - family with more pays more, but otherwise I think a 5 year old v 15 year old isn’t that different as 5 year old will probably eat more ‘kid’ snacks v older more main meal sizes. plus it just gets way too complicated.

So with 5, 4, 4 = 13. I would just do food bill divided by 13. Then each family pays there portion ie x5 or x4

Rental definitely 3/7, 2/7 and 2/7.

For food there needs to be a decision as to which of the children have appetites that are the same as adults, eg the 14, 15 and 17 yo, then take it from there but counting children half.

OTOH some special food might be bought for children which wouldn't be purchased otherwise.

And OTOH again alcohol for the adults!

I think you need to work your food kitty out based on knowing your own family best

In this situation we have always ignored the children and split the cost by number of adults. We only have one child, so in theory could be out of pocket but it's the easiest way. I guess if we went on holiday with a family with 5 children that would have to be revised!

We tend to move beds around for dcs to share anyway

I hope you know these families pretty well and this is not your first rodeo.
It does sound like a recipe for disaster.

1/3 each.
Just keep it simple.

It depends on everyone’s means and affordability but surely it’s easiest just to divide by three?

Youre all sharing a house, it’s three families, one has one more child so an extra room being used but that’s not added (I expect) to the total cost of the house which you’d have to rent as a whole anyway so just divide equally and have done with it.

Divide by 3 and the family with the extra kid should chuck a bit more into the kitty for food. I honestly couldn’t deal with some complicated equation for splitting of the food bill and would rather not go if that were the case.

Accommodation split by room.

Food slightly more tricky but family one will most likely consume more with a 15 and 17yo so should pay more.

Maybe split food shop/s in a similar way? Or possibly PP?

A 5 and 9 year old are no way eating as much as an 11, 15 and 17 year old. That would annoy me.

Agree with pp, divide the house cost by number of bedrooms. Obviously the teenagers will be eating more food so each family buys their own snacks and each family pays for their own meals when dining out. Otherwise I think there will be problems.

House according to rooms. So Family 1 pays for 3 rooms and the other families pay for 2 rooms each.

For the food, family 1 also needs to pay more as they have 2 teenagers that would eat the same or more than an adult.

Accomodation by the room (3:2:2) food divide by 3

Family one pay more. Even with food as those ages will eat adult sized meals.