Ski trip cost- are we subsidizing “host “ family

Agreed, I’d make it £800 and I don’t understand either maths here.

Where are you getting £1050 from OP?

Sounds like the host family want the x4 friends to cover their entire trip and more? £1640 x 4 =£6,560 so they’re making nearly £500 profit…

It might include meals out and groceries. I'd check.

Another one didn’t read the last line of the original post.

Did you read the last line of the original post?

Cost of car hire - presumably an extra car needed for that many or a minibus type- €1000
cost of ski boots and ski hire - €250 each
cost of ski lessons - €300 each
Food / drink - €75 per day depending on eating out

this is from my ski budget for our family holiday next year - I don’t know how many of these you’ve agreed to pay separately but otherwise they’ll need to be factored in.

Skiier here. When/where are they going?

Skis/boots are going to be £150. Food is the big deal here though. If all 7 of them stop on the mountain for coffee and then everyone decides they want a crepe, that's £100. If they eat out in the evening, it's going to be around £300. It will soon add up

I highly doubt the adults are going to want to cook for 6 teenagers every evening, so the price is not unreasonable. However, for that money they could easily have got a 4* half board hotel in most resorts and had plenty of change.

Meh - your kid is going on a holiday that someone else has organised and you're quibbling about the price.

Suck it up or organise the trip yourself.

That’s a bit of a piss take expecting the 4 people they’ve invited to pay all the costs of the accomodation. Presume the family aren’t paying all the food / travel etc. Very awkward. Not sure how some people have the cheek to do stuff like this.

OP has written travel and others costs paid for individually.

Yep they are getting you to pay for them. I’d also ask for a breakdown as no way would I pay that. That’s a school ski trip price where everything is included. I would be saying to my son that he wouldn’t be going. Once you’ve added on travel, ski hire, food you are looking at around another £1000 ish. Plus another £300 if they have lessons.

Ignore. Didn't read initial post properly.

I haven't worked it out but are you sure that's the total costs they gave you for everyone, or the total cost for the 4 friends?

You need to query it in a nice way, like you're being a bit thick and don't understand.

Are you sure they have added up the costs and divided by 5?

It seems more likely that the figure includes a contribution to travel from airport to resort, food and drink, ski instructor, equipment hire etc.

Lessons, kit hire, tourist tax? Or is all that separate as well?

Are you expected to send your child with any more money for incidentals and eating out etc?
Also if it was just the kids covering the costs and the adults chaperoning for free then surely it’s divided by 6. Where have you gotten 5 from?

If this really is how they have divided the cost (as others have said, the maths doesn't work so I'm not sure if it is) then that is completely unreasonable of them. You can't have one child paying the same amount towards accommodation as a family of four! You need to go back and ask (nicely) for clarification.

I second asking about / assuming food is included. I'd also factor in ferrying the kids around and chaperoning.

eta. fwiw I cringe with these types of scenarios. If i was taking my family on a ski holiday and having my dc's friends come along all they would need is money for their lift tickets/rentals and whatever picket money their patents gave them. No way would I charge for "their share" of the accommodation or food.

i think the tone of your post is unreasonable. You’re basically saying they’re scamming you for a free holiday when they’ve offered to take your kid away for a week.

By all means write and ask what it includes, ski lessons for example, can your child ski?

But if you start with the attitude that they’re out to rip you off then you’ll quickly find your child is deeply unwelcome.

So four extra teens not from their family and they want £6560 from those four? Towards total costs less than that?! Are you sure they haven’t separated out their own accommodation costs?
I would say ‘Oh that’s more than I was expecting. I thought it was about £6k between the 8 of you. Is that right or am I missing something’ along with some other friendly general chat of course.

Unless you’re also covering all food etc I’d probably leave it as I know how my kids eat and they aren’t even teens yet, and don’t people mostly eat out on those trips? That would cost a fortune.

Absolutely not. They're not professionals supervising a trip. They're parents taking their kids on holiday who have invited four of their friends.

Their maths is puzzling.
How many bedrooms in the accomodation? I’d expect someone in a shared bedroom to pay less than someone sleeping alone.

Travel costs and other costs are covered individually.

From the OP.

Assuming there are 4 rooms, and each person is sharing a room with one other person, then you shouldn't be paying more than £800. The only way you should be paying more than this is if there are other costs which they haven't told you about. It's hard to see what would cost another £800 if you know food and transport is not included. In which case, they are taking the piss. Could you send us a "ooops, looks like you've charged us double!! I'll send the £800 over" message?

Interesting.

If they are expecting subsidies due to facilitating this for other families, that is perhaps not unreasonable but should have been put in writing, up front.

I am baffled by the maths here too as I come up with one persons (skiing) share being £800 - accomodation + lift pass.

They're asking more than double that, what is the extra for? I can see there being extra - ski hire, boot hire, food whilst out during the day if its food included breakfast/dinner or all food if its self catering...

But they should tell you what this sum covers so you know what DC needs for any extras (after a disastrous ski trip my sister had recently, would never recommend going without sufficient spare to hire skis/boots, hers spent half the holiday in Geneva Airport!)

Where have you got divided by 5 from? I don’t understand why would 5 be the number they divided by? Also 6100 divided by 5 is not 1640?