In a couple of weeks, DD's best friend is taking part in a big sports competition about 3 hours drive away. Her mum, also a friend of mine, is disabled and can't drive that far. The family was going to drive down in the morning, having to leave home around 5am. The mum said she would like to go the night before and stay in a hotel as DD's friend would then not have such an early morning and long drive before her 'big day', but with 6 of them going it would be too expensive.
I said it would be nice for me and DD to go and watch, and friends mum suggested that I drive her car with her, DD's friend, and DD, and we all stay in a family room overnight with the rest of the family following on the next day. I agreed.
Well today she rang me and said she found a room for £37, it would be £6.50 for breakfast, did I want breakfast booked? I said yes, but now I am wondering something.
I assumed she would cover the cost of the hotel as it's for her benefit. Of course I will be paying for all our meals, and if she asks for it, I'll pay half the hotel, but I do feel that I am doing her a favour and she should pay.
I also think she's going to ask me for petrol money. Now I know that if I had driven my own car, I'd have to fill it up. But I also wouldn't have the hotel costs. We would just go for the day.
AIBU to expect her to pay for everything? Putting it like that it does actually sound U, and I sound like I want a 'freebie'. But half the hotel, an evening meal for me and DD, breakfast, lunch the next day, probably a meal on the way home, and petrol money will more than likely come to well over £50. If I were just driving for the day in my own car, it's just petrol money and I'd put a packed lunch in.
I don't want to come across as tight but £50 is hard to come by unexpectedly. I don't quite know what to say if she asks for the money (and she won't hesitate to ask, if she thinks she is owed it).