Splitting Costs

[bumbling]

I am organising a family holiday for 18 people. The family units are one group of 6 and 4 groups of 3. The group of six is two parents with their xhild, their adult daughter and her two kids. ( in my mind this is two groups but they are insisting they are one group)

I booked a transfer from the airport to the resort and now we need to decide how best to split it.

The options are:

Per group 400/5
Per group with the group of 6 400/6 counting as 2 groups
Per person including children 400/18

Which way do you think is the most fair to everyone?

I would put my foot down and say pay it divided by 6 or sortyourself out. Far too much hassle IMO.

See you soon op when you are back with your horror holiday thread!!

Why would it be per group? Everyone needs a seat presumably so its just per person.

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This!!!! Send an group email and say it’s per person and everyone will be paying separately for everything. Because the non confrontational people won’t actually do anything whilst you are on holiday if they are subsidising meals/drinks for the cf... other than moan constantly at you

Just tell everyone that you asked the transfer company and they said that per person is the usual way to do it.

The only way I could even begin to consider they might not be a full 2 groups is if all the other children are 16+ (ie adults) and the adult daughter's children are under 5. Then I might be prepared to discuss it.

If all the other groups are 2 adults 1 child, I might consider that 1 adult 2 children paid slightly less. But not to the extent as considering them only one group.

I think per person's the best way to do it. Each person needs a seat and each seat needs to be paid for.

But in your situation I'd say "Let's all book our own transfers." If individual groups want to team up, that's up to them.

Everybody needs a seat, including children, which is how the taxi company will decide which vehicle to send. Ratio of children to adults is irrelevant, because everyone needs a seat.

Charge per person, split the £400 between 18, each child is paid for by their own parents. The person paying for the group of 6 pays for all 6 people.

Option D is that the group of 6 book their own, and you book for the people that aren't being awkward.

They're definitely being CFs. The transfer will be a fixed rate based on the number of seats needed. Transfer companies don't charge differently per head depending on whether individuals are related or not, therefore it should have no bearing on who pays what. Paying per person is fairest. You could pay per adult but doesn't seem like it would make a difference (and a seat is still a seat, whoever sits in it!)

Of course you divide the cost by 18. All 18 people will require a seat (unless they are a babe in arms).

I'd only consider doing it differently, if a child's ticket was less than an adults, and then each group would pay for their actual fee for the transfer.

Knock this madness on the head now, because if you don't, the group of 6 are going to royally take the piss when you eat out and have to split the bill.

Just say it's price per seat on the transfer and if people wish to arrange their own transfers you are happy for them to do that.

Transfers should be costed a a unit price for each person requiring a seat. In this case the cost is divided between the 18 people needing transport.

Divide it equally between all the people who will be occupying a seat. If you can't have children on laps in the car, then they are also occupying a seat and have to be paid for by the relevant adult.

Everyone buys their own food!

I assume the transfer vehicle people asked how many actual people are being transferred , so how many actual bums on actual seats. So their cost has been calculated per person . They have not said there are six groups so six seats and sort it out among yourselves, they have said X people, therefore X seats required at y amount per seat.

So you charge per person. You have a bum, you pay for a seat.

Yeah it's a fixed cost for the no of people ie seats taken up so per person thats the way to do it.

I’d split per person so and ignore the group thing. I’d tell them it’s eutgrr fine that way or everyone (or each group) just diets their own transfers

FFS just do it divided by 5.
Is it worth the hassle, how tight is everyone. Just pretend it’s like going to a restaurant where three quarters of people drink, some gave desert, some don’t. It’s not the same people who drink/don’t drink do or die by have desert. To save the angst all round just split the initial bill by 5, immediately drop it from your mind and move be in without any angst. The easiest way.

*have desert

• don’t have desert. Sorry, autocorrect fails all round, I give up

400/18.

Or even have /don't have dessert

How ridiculous. It's transfer, so cost per head.

Does this family got realise how transport works? Do they expect their plane tickets to be less because they're one party of 6 rather than two parties of 3?

Each person takes up a place.

This family of 6 are taking the piss, sounds like you might have this issue throughout the whole holiday.

It probably won't make much difference if all the groups include children but can you count all the children as half? Means that 2 adult, 1 child groups pay a bit more than 1 adult with two children which seems fair.

So if there are, say, 9 adults and 9 kids then each adult pays 400/13.5 and kids pay half of that.

We use this method regularly with extended family.

Yes the bill splitting for food might also become an issue. I suggest from the beginning that 1) alcoohol is counted separately and 2) adults pay one share and children 1/2 share.

@cheezeontoast, but I've a feeling the adult daughter will think she should pay half price, then.