To think this is the fairest way to share center parcs cost?

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Am I right that this is the best way to split the cost of £1500 for a 4 bed lodge:

Room 1 - family 1: 2 adults and 1 DC (18 months) pays £375
Room 2 and 3 - family 2: 2 adults and 2 DC (age 4 and 6) pays £750
Room 4 - family 3 (parents/in-laws of adults and grandparents of all DC) pays £375

please let me know if you’d split differently?

Personally I'd just divide the bill by 3.

Split lodge by number of guests. Pay per head and not per room?

Would you charge for the 18mth old or the 4 & 6 yo?

If yes would you have a reduced rate for them?

We are going to CP, we’re a family of 5 and going with a family of 3. We just divided the total cost by 8 and multiple by the number of people in each group. I’m paying 5/8 and they are paying 3/8.

Seems fair to me - you are paying by the room - which is what you'd do in a hotel or b&b. I'm assuming this doesn't include food or entry to attractions? If it does then it gets more complicated....

Just split 3 ways. You're buying a
holiday, not sleeping space.

But then why would family 1 and 3 want to share when they can get a lodge on their own for the same price? If there's no financial benefit to sharing, why bother?

@Sugarfree23 possibly for the 18month old if they're in a cot but anyone in a bed will be on the head count at center parcs check in so I'd charge them a space. That's how cp price. If you have 6 adults in a lodge the price is the same as 5 adults one child. Why would the price reduce for a child ?

Well you either do

1500/4 = 375 per room (750 for fam 2)

1500/9 = 167 each (500 fam 1, 667 fam 2, 333 fam 3)

1500/3 = 500 each fam which is same as per adult.

If gp/dp are happy to pay more to spend time with family then option 3 could work

If gp only want to pay their share then option 2 is fair as you are paying for each person.

Or you could work out half amounts for the kids but that's to complicated for my tired brain 🤣

We are a family of 5 and often go away with friends, a family of 3 and a couple. I always struggle knowing the fairest way to split things and have found the per room basis to be the fairest method. In a 5 bed place we pay 50% and benefit from 2.5 rooms (one of our three children shares with the only child) and in a 4 bed place we pay 50% and have two bedrooms.

We have been away with a single friend to a three bed place and again split per room with us paying 2/3 - I initially wondered if that were the right thing to do but single travellers do get charged based upon the room as we have discovered when staying in hotels! Sharing with others is financially far better value when a single traveller.

How are family 2 paying £375 for a CHILD???? Personally I'd expect to have the cost split 3 ways or at a push per person and pay accordingly

We went away for a big occasion last year 4 houses some had 2 and some 3 bedrooms , 9 adults and some had 2 kids 3 kids 4 had no kids. we split cost evenly between adults not the size of house or amount or age of kids everyone was happy with this.

I split it 3 ways personally. 3 families sharing a lodge.

Split it 3 ways ffs

I don’t think it’s unfair for Family 2 - they’re still making a large saving than if they went as just a family of 4 having to pay £1000 for a 2-bed villa.

4 bed lodge, 8 adults, cost £1500 . If that was my family, we would divide cost by 4 (rooms) making it £375 each room. As children sharing room, would not charge them.

I'm guessing the people who want to split it three ways are the kind of people who think they only owe 1/2 a taxi fare when they're a couple who share with a single person or who duck out of rounds when it's their turn to buy as they're 'two halves of a whole'

I'd split total amount by total occupants I.e. £1500 ÷ 10 = £150 the times up per person then your paying £150 no matter ages.

Family 1 = £450
Family 2 = £600
Family 3 = £450

Seems a fairer split 🤔

Family 1 = £450
Family 2 = £600
Family 3 = £450

Only 8 people are going.

This is exactly how we split a house when we did it last year,we were in family 2 and paid twice as much as everyone else.
Now we're not going, and 3 other families are, they happen to be splitting it evenly 3 ways. Do I feel a bit hard done by? Yep but we did take 2 rooms so at the time it was fair and it's not our problem that the family that's taking 2 rooms this year isn't doing the same.

Three families want to holiday together so divide by three. I think making family 2 pay more because they have more kids is bonkers.

I would honestly rethink the holiday.
If they are this picky about rooms imagine what they will be like about food bills!

Why don't you look at the difference between term time and non term time and ask family 1 to pay the difference in that if you're looking at the difference between 3/4 bed lodges. Not their fault you need an extra bedroom but also not your fault they can't go in term time due to their job. (Same job as me I might add).

I would personally split between families. Family 2 are only getting an extra bedroom, they won't be getting half of the rest of the space. Cost of lodge also includes cost of amenities and swimming etc - surely family 1's DC is not going to be omitted from all activities? They will expect their child to be able to use them despite not paying a contribution for them.

This answer seems the fairest of all I've seen.

At what point do people with no kids or one kid stop subsiding bigger families? Three kinds? Five kids? Seven kids?

If you choose to have more children, life is more expensive. It's baffling that people think that shouldn't be so on a holiday.