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Mumstheword8 · 2022-02-09T18:17:06+00:00

So basically I have booked a holiday with my son (5), my dad and my dad's wife. We have got two rooms and also a free child place. How would you split the cost? Would you split per room so basically half the holiday each or per adult which is the holiday split into 3 as the child place was free?

rookiemere · 09/02/2022 19:47

Your DF and DSM should pay what the holiday would have cost them as a couple.

ChocolateMassacre · 09/02/2022 19:49

Even if you put a value on the 'free' child's place, it should be less than the adult value because they're going to eat less, not drink alcohol obviously etc. They will get less benefit from the holiday.

I'd value the child's place at 50% of the adult's place. So you pay 1.5 places and they pay 2 places. What that comes out as is that you pay 3/7 of the cost of the trip and they pay 4/7.

gogohm · 09/02/2022 19:53

All depends on the pricing- if you have two separate rooms, was there a surcharge for your room because prices are usually based on 2 adults sharing - free child places are usually only when they share your room. I would look at the invoice, if their room cost twice as much they should pay twice as much

kitcat15 · 09/02/2022 19:55

Does your dad have form for this? I regularly go away with My kids, GC and my Mum..... we always split costs of package holidays between adults only ( me my partner and mum are only too happy to pay for GC and we can afford to) ....if we go on flights and accommodation hols....my DC pay for their own flights and their children's..... then we split the accommodation between the adults.... maybe just go on holiday with your MUm in future OP

thickthighs73 · 09/02/2022 19:56

Split between three

Inanun2 · 09/02/2022 20:06

@LizzieMacQueen

As you only got the free child space with their participation I'd divide total by 3.5. They pay 2, you 1.5.

Yes I agree with this as a compromise if they will not split 3 ways then only next fairest IMO based on full price of £3300 they pay £1885 (£944 each) and you pay £1414. Do not pay 50/50 that’s too much.

Dutchesss · 09/02/2022 20:15

If it's a free child place then the child is free. Split between the 3 adults who will be eating, drinking and paying the air fare.

How much would the holiday have been if you had booked for 4 adults? Probably another 30% on top and you would have split it.

Your price breakdown on the confirmation should show up as per person.

MrsDrDear · 09/02/2022 20:37

Has your dad offered to split by 3? What man would stitch his daughter and grandchild up? You need to speak to him direct, he might not have realised.

HettieHelvetica · 09/02/2022 20:46

@Dutchesss

Book separately. You'll get a free child place and they'll have to pay for their own.

You tend to need to book two adults to get one free child place though. Yes, that sucks for single parents.

I would do two dummy bookings to see the costs for you & DS and them individually and then work backwards from there.

mightytights4 · 09/02/2022 21:09

I'd look at what it would cost you each to book separately then apply the same share to the actual cost.

If I understand right it would cost the same if your dad and his wife or you and your DS booked separately because your DS would pay the same as an adult. That means you'd each have the same cost.

Say its £1000 for 2 people

Cost for you and your DS going alone £1000
Cost for your dad and his wife going alone £1000
Total cost if you all booked separately £2000
Share 50% each

If you're saying it is £1650 instead of £2000 then you're right that your dad and his wife pay less splitting 50% but so do you. I agree with other posters that a dad might be generous about it and not take the saving but I don't think they're being unreasonable splitting half each.

Rewis · 09/02/2022 21:19

Talk with your dad and nit with his wife. Your dad asked to have a holiday with you, I'd say you split it amongst 3 adults and maybe you pay a bit extra for the inflated price of "free child". Normally paying per room would be fair but in this case there would have been 2 rooms anyway.

HangOnToYourself · 09/02/2022 21:25

It's also worth bearing in mind the argument that it would have cost your more to go alone is also daft because you probably would have gone with another adult like your mum or a friend, you said you went with your dad this time as it was only fair as last time you went with your mum but now they have stitched you up 🤷‍♀️

shinynewapple22 · 09/02/2022 21:32

So you haven't really had a free child place? As you are booking two rooms ? You would have for a free child's place if you and another adult were sharing a room?

CeeceeBloomingdale · 09/02/2022 23:32

The only way you could have a free child is if you've booked a 2 bedroomed apartment surely rather than two separate rooms?

I've just done a random date search for a week in Calpe AI.

2 adults plus 1 child in a room £1154 (free child place)

1 adult and 1 child in a room £1156 (no free child place, randomly it's £2 more)

1 adult and 1 child in room one. 2 adults in room 2 £2328 (equivalent £1164 per room, no free child place)

This pretty much proves you are paying adult price for the child. Did you price it separately before booking? Were you told you had got a free child place? I think paying half is fair tbh.

budgiegirl · 10/02/2022 00:31

I'm also now think that paying half each is fair.

I've done a random search for a week all inclusive in the Canaries, two rooms (only place I could find with two rooms, most make you share one room between 3 adults and one child)

3 adults and 1 child comes to £2141. Split per room is £1070 per room, or if split between three adults its £1427 for dad and wife, £713 for OP and child.

If booked separately it's £1274 per room , no matter if it's 2 adults, or one adult and one child.

I'm not sure that it's fair to make dad and wife pay £1427 when they could have paid £1274 by booking separately.

If you split in half, you both make a saving on what you would have paid booking separately.

Flickflak · 10/02/2022 02:59

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CharlotteRose90 · 10/02/2022 03:14

You can’t win because if you went just you and your son then you’d pay adult prices x2. Even though it’s a free child place it’s actually not because the extra is hiked onto the holiday in the adult price. If it was me I’d offer the adult price for myself and then half for my child. Then then pay the rest. It’s them going that means youve got the free child place so I’d think half is fair really.

timeisnotaline · 10/02/2022 03:19

Hi dad, we booked a holiday price per person, you saw all the details. If you now want to go halves instead (as is saying) becasue the child’s price is included, then you’ll completely understand that I won’t be keen on organising again. argues that I would have to pay more on my own as the free child’s place needs multiple adults to qualify but I would have booked something else rather than pay that much. Would be great if you guys can send money through.

Arabellla · 10/02/2022 03:22

They are trying to get a cheap holiday at your expense.

If you let this happen, you won’t enjoy that holiday and will resent it.

Make sure you get the FULL cost from the cheeky fuckers,

Arabellla · 10/02/2022 03:23

@timeisnotaline

Hi dad, we booked a holiday price per person, you saw all the details. If you now want to go halves instead (as is saying) becasue the child’s price is included, then you’ll completely understand that I won’t be keen on organising again. argues that I would have to pay more on my own as the free child’s place needs multiple adults to qualify but I would have booked something else rather than pay that much. Would be great if you guys can send money through.

Sorry but this is not a good text at all. It’s too passive and basically says OP will pay half.

BuanoKubiamVej · 10/02/2022 05:47

But in the OP's holiday, the child place is free. Her dad and step mum would pay (using your exanple figures not real numbers) £1274 by booking separately and the holiday for the 3 adults plus one child is presumably £1911. The 50;50 proposal would be that they should pay £955.50 for the dad & step mum and £955.50 for the OP and child, so significantly less than they would pay if they went alone but sharing the "free child place" benefit between the two households rather than the op being the beneficiary. Comparing what the op would pay if she went alone with her child doesn't make much sense though as I doubt it would be possible for most people in her situation to pay a full price adult cost for a child.

I think the dad and step mum should pay whatever they would pay if they booked the same holiday for just the 2 of them without op and child there at all. Then op pays the rest.

anon12345678901 · 10/02/2022 06:03

Well it's not fair to split in three ways as the price will be inflated to reflect the 'free' child's place. Your child still has flights and food included. I would ask to split it 2.5/1.5 ways. If you were taking your child away alone you'd have to pay more anyway.

TheTeenageYears · 10/02/2022 06:16

I haven't looked at a holiday brochure in years but used to price up holidays for fun with my sister as a child 😂. If it still works the same way there would generally be an under occupancy fee for the bedroom with the child in so price for you plus x per day under occupancy because the free child doesn't count towards the occupancy of the room. In an ideal world your Dad would be very happy to split total cost between 3 and you to have benefitted from the additional adults in order to gain the free child place. You paying half is going completely to the other end of the scale with them getting a massively subsidised holiday due to the free child place.

The fairest way is to find out if there is an under occupancy supplement, take that away from the total and divide by 3. Add the supplement to the 1/3 cost and you pay that. Take what you pay away from the total and that's what DF & Step mum pay.

londonrach · 10/02/2022 06:18

It's usually by room for accommodation then you sort out food separately

Soontobe60 · 10/02/2022 06:38

@DirtyDancing

Doesn't make sense ... you're not getting a child place for free if you are playing for 2 adults?! I don't get it. Lol

The OP has said that if she and her DS were going without them, she would have to pay for 2 adults. So her DF is actually subsidising her ds’s place.