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To ask how you split costs on a big family holiday?

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tryingtoplanaholiday · 19/12/2025 07:42

My mum and dad both have big birthdays coming up so I want to suggest that we go on a big family holiday with the whole family. (This will likely be in 2027, to give everyone time to save)

I haven’t suggested it yet because I’m a bit split on how we would share the costs.

Our family is as follows

parents, me, a younger sibling (both me and my younger sibling are single, no children), and my older siblings who are each married with two children a piece.

We would likely end up needing 7 or 8 bedrooms (depending on which children would be happy to share), so how is it split? Is it an even split per family, which would mean my brother and I end up paying huge chunk more because of the extra bedrooms, or is it per bedroom? So i would pay for one bedroom of the accommodation and the families using two pay for two?

I want to have it laid out before i suggest it because otherwise i can see it being absolute chaos.

YABU - everyone pays an equal split. It’s a family holiday and it shouldn’t be unequal.

YANBU - you should pay per bedroom

OP posts:
AndSoFinally · 19/12/2025 07:44

Accomodation costs per room, food costs per person (with kids counting as half), travel costs each family pays their own ticket price

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