not to want to pay for night at a hotel

[jugofwildflowers]

My youngest dd aged 12 asked me if I could take her and 2 friends to stay at a 4 * hotel somewhere as they had not stayed at one before, paying for it themselves, as a treat.

I will be driving them there and back, looking after them etc. I was asked to go rather than the other mums as am thought to be a fun mum. However, I am busy, work w/es but I was honoured to be asked.

Would you say the cost should be split fourways? Or AIBU to have wanted the cost split three ways (excluding me as driver/'baby'sitter) for the room?!

They were all in a king size bed. The other was a sofa bed and I would have been in it!

Ah thanks TheNorthWitch - I may be biased but I think she's pretty great :o the art obsession is actually due to school - summer term in yr1 they had a topic on artists which was done brilliantly.

I didn't realise that teaching kids about culture & travel was such a rotten thing to do.

Indeed!

I hardly ever shake my head in bafflement at MN threads but some of the responses here have got me . I am generally very anti-growing-up-too-fast, I hate the idea of pamper parties and children having too much screen time, teenage-rated video games, gadgets, Facebook, makeup, grown up clothes etc but a hotel stay doesn't enter my radar.

Culture and travel??? This is a thread about one night in a local Novatel - hardly culture and travel

We were referring to an earlier poster who was concerned that this night in a hotel may lead to further outrageous requests for trips, possibly even Paris!

The quote in question was about the idea that they may want to go to Paris at 14, sirchenjin, I don't think it was particularly referring to the Novotel :o

That will learn me to wtft properly!

rtft even!

Was definitely about the Paris thing... ;)