Its a group holiday one...

may I suggest that you use the Splitwise app. It works out exactly what each person needs to pay. You can also add expenses on to it. Ie if someone pays for coffees for all 13, it will wcost right that out. It really is brilliant. We use it on all group holidays saves all arguments.

Did you score that much sought-after single bed for yourself?!

Any updates @Cornwall776 ?

Up to you all to query it and stick together xx

Have you already paid? I'd be tempted to say actually I'll sort my own accommodation as I don't plan to share a bed.

FHS this sort of theing rarely ends happily there's always going to someone annoyed - a bit like splitting the bill after a meal out and the person who didn't eat as much wants to pay less!

WHY didn't you all agree at the beginning that the total cost was to be split regardless and then those who had an issue from the outset could opt out?!

How long did you have to revert? I'd have been replying in seconds saying "love you all, so much 😆, but not enough to share a bed! I'll book seperately tonight. If you can share the booking reference I'll ask to be the same block."

Yawn

I’m amazed you took more than 24hrs to show up 🙄

If you're not comfortable sharing rooms and beds with any if them speak up and say "I'm quite happy to share a room but I'm not comfortable sharing a bed with anyone. I assumed we'd all be in twin rooms with one other person." And see what she says?

'Girls'? 🙄

This is the way to do it - let people sort their own accommodation and meet up at specific times in a specific place. That way you get your own privacy, space, and comfort but you still get to see your friends (but no so much you get sick of them!)

By that logic the room for 2 will be subsidising the rooms for 4 - splitting the total cost per person makes so much more sense. You are all going. You are all sleeping in a double bed except for no 13 who has a single bed. Honestly really nothing to moan about here other than preference would have been for 6 doubles and a single room or 13 single rooms in which case you all would have been paying more

I organised a trip for 15 people to France once, Normandy are for WWII stuff etc.
I only did itinerary. Said we're based in Bayuex every night...sort your own accommodation.

A MILLION times easier. We still had dinners together, did museums etc. but they knew to be in a particular carpark at X time each day. So they could spend the morning as they wished, or afternoon etc some people spent all 4 hours in museum, some spendt one hour and went off to cafe/shopping... Met back at whatever time was set for departure /meal.

Worked beautifully, because some people just wanted cheapy Novotel type places, others wanted boujie B&B etc

But what happens to the 1 person who no longer has a bed if OP takes the room for 2 for herself?

I'd go online and book my own room. Four in a room, sharing beds, one bathroom sounds horrendous. Only if you can't book online call the hotel and say you're a late addition!

As was first mentions on the first page, 'expectations' need to be agreed long before you get to the stage of anyone booking anything.

If I'd been lumbered with organising a holiday for 13 individuals, I would expect everyone who wasn't doing any of the leg work to accept decisions I took BUT you all needed to have set out your 'line' over what is / isn't acceptable when the idea was in it's infancy.

I don't have a problem sharing rooms, I am well aware others do. Neither is right or wrong, but it needed to have been sorted long before a booking.
Same as how you allocate rooms, or what you are doing about food, and so and and so on.

Absolute nightmare trying to organise a group holiday at the best of times, even if you know each other really well and know you have similar budgets and similar ways of "being" when on holiday.

This has disaster written all over it.

“hi gang, late to the party here. Can I take a room for 2 people please? Clearly I’m happy to pay more for it - that seems fair”…

This sounds like my idea of hell. I would not want to share a bed with anyone except my DH on any type of vacation.

No advice, OP, but you have my sympathies.

A holiday you say. 🤔

I agree that it often can be; but part of being the organiser is asking people how they want you to organise certain important aspects.

It's not difficult to say "Do you want to share rooms/beds and save a bit of money, or pay extra for separate rooms/individual beds?" Then you sort out rooms for those who want separate ones and whoever is left, who wanted to share, can be provided with a bigger communal room(s) and charged less accordingly.

Sounds awful. Is it 1 bathroom for 4 people? Big big no from me

Life's too short for this nonsense. Can you pull out OP?

And imagine the poor people around them

It’s a thread about how important it is to discuss expectations (no of rooms, no of beds, division of payment) in advance. The cheapest offer may resolve some issues but add others.