How to devide holiday bill

[Dithercats]

Situation is holiday booked and paid for by me. Invited 1 adult to come with me & kiddies. Price per person £1000

2 adults.
4 children
2 free kids places.
Total £4000

How much would the adult friend needed to pay?

£1000 price per person? So I then pay £3000
£666 price divided by all 6 holidaymakers? So I then pay £3333

Which is fairer?

Thanks

I'd work out the cost if they weren't coming (I.e would you still get two child free places?) and then compare it to the price with them coming. They should pay the difference, as that's the extra you have had to pay for their presence.

If the other adult wasn’t coming, would it cost you £4000 (1 free child place) or £5000 (no free child place)? Because then it doesn’t make sense to get the adult to pay the ‘difference’ .

I would divide by 6, so the adult pays £666 each and you pay the rest.

How much would it cost you if the other adult wasn't coming and who is the other adult?

How much would it have cost you if they weren’t coming? Then minus that from the £4000.

What do they think they should pay??

Who is the other adult? Your mum coming for company and to help with DC, your 17 year old's 18 yo boyfriend?
How much would it have cost of the second adult didn't come?

Someone would have to pay me £1000 to share with a 17yr old and generally holiday with three other children that weren’t mine!

If ive got this right, you plus 4 kids would cost 4000.
The extra adult coming actually adds nothing to the price of the holiday?
£666 tops

I would split the per person price between the adult and the child that is going for 'free' (because of the adult). So £500.

Yes 1 adult plus 4 kiddies is also £4000 as the 2nd child wouldn't be free.

Second adult is my single sibling who asked to come, is super independent and will happily go off & do their own thing. I never ask them to watch the kids, but we do all have a nice time together and regularly try to meet up.

You should have decided this and agreed on the answer before you booked it. My own opinion is they pay £1,000. That is the adult price.

This. Could you even go if no other adult as too many DC to fit in an apartment?

FWIW, when my mum comes on holiday with us I get a bigger place but don't charge her anything.

What does your sister say she should pay? Has she queried anything about the price, if not I wouldn't get tied up in knots about it. If my sister and I were in this situation it would be 1/4 : 3/4 and no getting out the calculator!

Edit.. could be your brother, but same principle!

Definitely would be a huge cheek charging her/him £1000 then! Even £666 is grabby.

I'd not charge anything, or at most a couple of hundred quid. If I was her I'd cover a meal or two though.

Yes we would still go and have 2 connecting rooms - which is cheaper than the 2 bed apartments I booked for more comfort/ privacy.

In the past we did the £666,, and another time the £1000, depending on friend really.
Sibling is so laid back they are likely to ask me how much I need want in payment.

This makes no sense - if they didn't come the holiday would still cost 4k as you would pay for a third child.
She should pay £1k. Yes she earned you a free child place, but simply by existing, so I don't think that earns her a reduction. I assume if she went on the same holiday alone she would pay 1k or possibly more.

My mum has been on holiday with us lots of times and we have benefitted by getting another free child place. She always paid the full adult price. Obviously she is my dcs grandmother so this may be different to a friend tagging along.
From your recent updates op, I say your sibling pays £1000.

@Dithercats I'd just ask them to pay £750 as a vaguely "round" number. It takes a discount into account for both sides.

Her going saves you £1000 in kids price.

But she asked to join your holiday so that's why you got it.

I'm imagining if she booked her own package to go when you do to the same place she wouldn't get it for £1k?

She also gets her own room in an apt with an almost adult.

So £1000 seems fair as that's the cost for her to join you.

Id just pay for them to go tbh.

Split the difference- she gets a discount on them£1k and you don’t have to pay the full £1k for the child’s place. So say £800 or so for your sibling?

So if she doesn't go, it costs £4k.

If she does go, it costs £4k.

What a bizarre pricing structure - how is the holiday company making any money when an extra adult doesn't actually cost any more?

I'd suggest she pay £500. Then you've both saved £500 on the headline price.

So, you and 4 kids is £4000 and her, you and 4 kids is also £4000?

That’s a bonus!

Invited 1 adult to come with me & kiddies.

That sounds like you invited them, in that case I wouldn’t charge them at all for the accommodation. They should pay for their food/drink/travel though.

Second adult is my single sibling who asked to come,

This suggests that in fact they asked you to come. I’d probably charge them £1000 in that case, but I’d tend to prefer to holiday with just my little family so this would not be my choice.

If the 3 younger children are all sharing a room I would not expect their cost to be the same as an adult who gets their own room. £1000 seems fair.

This!