How would you split this holiday rental?

[TheTwirlyPoos]

2 families away for a week. 4 bedrooms one of which is downstairs. All rooms have one double bed in.

Family one - DH, DW, 6 year old, 3 year old.

Family two - DH, DW, 15 month old.

We are interested in your thoughts!

Sorry forgot a couple of details

6 and 3 year old have never shared a room. 6 year old is early riser

14 month old is a very early riser (4 am etc)

2 rooms per family and up to family one of their DC share with each other or one child in with each parent or one child in with them on a blow up mattress.
Half the cost.

50-50

Half and half. Two bedrooms for each family.

If the family with one child is happy with one room then they get to pay 1/4 and the family with two children 3/4.

Obviously the requirements should have been agreed before booking.

50/50, don't get petty

50-50 unless family 1 want to bag 3/4 rooms in which case the cost is shared to show it.

both families have very early risers so would be unfair for the 6y have their own room and not wake the 3y old while the 14m gets to wake up both parents. maybe one parent sleeps upstairs in the 3rd room with the 14m and the other parent gets to sleep through down stairs and swap the next night.

the other family can choose to put kids together or also do 1 parent 1 child combos.

If I was family number two I'd probably want the downstairs bedroom and have the 15 month old 4am early riser in with us.

I can't imagine either family wanting to be sleeping on a different floor to their children do they?

Cost split probably 60/40 to the family with two children.

This doesn't sound a brilliant set up for your families. All the children are too young to be too far away from their parents at night. 4am is too early to wake the other family on holiday.

I would give the other family 2 rooms, their 2 kids in 1, them in another. I would have my child in travel cot in upstairs room with me/DH. In the week you could take turns for a proper night's sleep in the downstairs room.

I assume you’re going away with them as they are friends so you want/enjoy their company. If they demanded 3 of 4 bedrooms then I might say they pay 2 thirds

Unless of course you wanted a 2 bedroom cottage and they pushed for a four bedroom cottage which was a lot more expensive then I would reconsider.

If the 15 month old were mine I'd prefer to share a room with them and pick the ground floor one to be handy for soothing 4am cups of tea . I would rather not be on the same floor as a 3 and 6 year old who might disturb them. I'd also be worried about putting such a young child to bed on the upper floor of a strange house while I sat up on the ground floor. However,if the other family gets three bedrooms they should pay more towards the rental.
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Well you could do 25% for each bedroom if one family is having three of them. But I'd just go 50/50 with friends.

50/50
Don't get petty over the rooms and cost unless the other family are insisting they need 3 room and you just want 1.

If the 6 & 3 year old have never shared a room is that because they have never been on holiday, previous split has been 1A & 1C to a room or because 3 rooms/sleeping areas have been booked? Most people opt for the lowest amount of rooms possible on holiday and it's pretty common for siblings to share a room on holiday even if they don't at home.

I'm not sure the house meets the needs of the two families as the downstairs bedroom isn't really suitable for any of the children. Best solution would be parents of 6 & 3 year old downstairs, 6 & 3 year old together in bedroom upstairs with a monitor in case they wake in the night with parents on different floor. Other couple & child in 2 other upstairs bedroom. 50/50 split.

Other option if couple with one child are happy to have 1 room and 2nd family have 3 rooms but split maybe 65/35 in terms of cost. There's a base cost to a holiday rental regardless of how many bedrooms plus a per bedroom cost so 25% per bedroom is too simplistic a calculation. It's unlikely if travelling separately that a 3 bed property would cost 3 times a one bed so 75/25 split wouldn't be fair if one family agrees to only use one bedroom and the other family use 3.

50/50
2 bedrooms each family.

If family with 2 kids want 3 rooms (and other family of 15 month baby agree) they should be suggesting 60/40 at least but ideally 70/30.

You pay per bedroom so if 2 rooms each 50/50 if the couple with 2 kids want 3 rooms then they pay 3/4 and the other couple pays 1/4

I agree 50/50 split, 2 rooms each unless one family is insisting on having 3 bedrooms which doesn’t really suit other family. In that case maybe 65/35.

But I also agree that the layout isn’t really great.

@notquitesoyoung makes a very good point about a 3 bed place not being 3x the price of a 1 bed.
So maybe split the cost into living areas and bedrooms.
Split 1/4 each for the living areas and the other half based on bedrooms.

Imagining us being the family with the 6 and 3yo we would probably take one of the kids each and rotate nightly who goes in with the early rising 6yo. That would leave the ground floor bedroom for the 14mo (again, would have a parent in with them and rotate) who hopefully won’t then wake anyone else up at 4am.

Alternatively you could use the GF room for the adult who isn’t sharing with the 14mos old, which would mean you’re not potentially disturbing any of the kids if you’re socialising in an adjacent communal space.

Appreciate bed sharing isn’t for everyone but in circumstances where bedrooms are split over different floors and some kids are liable to get up at the crack of dawn it’s probably the best way for all the adults to get some sleep over the course of the holiday.

50/50 unless the couple with 2 kids want three rooms, in which case they pay 3/4 of the bill. Toss up with who gets the downstairs bedroom.

This.

This doesn’t answer the question really.

how are bedrooms being used?

As default i’d expect 50/50 unless i had 14m old and the other family expected to occupy 3 bedrooms…which then begs the question: why get a 4 bed?

but I’d also have no problem having a 14m one floor down from me.

Couple with older dc sleep downstairs and their dc have a room together upstairs (parents could have one each in with them, up to them. My dc only ever shared on holiday- completely normal).

Couple with 15 month old have 2 rooms upstairs.

Each family gets two rooms, assuming that they are contributing equally to the cost.

How's the cost being split? If it's 50/50 then it's two rooms each .

If the family of four are paying more then it would be reasonable to claim an extra room.

But really the adults need to chat, are the parents of the 14m old wanting them to have their own room or would they want to share as it's a new surroundings.

In terms of they down stairs bedroom I'd be fine with a adult child combo doing that but I wouldn't want to be on a separate floor from my child.

If I had a 14m old dh and I would probably alternate one night with child and one night alone. Id probably offer to take the downstairs bedroom with 14m old so not to disturb others.

If I had the 3 and 6 year old id either put them in one room or do adult /child split, possibly alternating if there's a difference in wake up times. I wouldn't want to pay 25% more for a extra bedroom.