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?

I wouldn't exactly say 2 kids is a 'larger' family.
If you were talking a family with 4 kids then I'd maybe think differently.

But you have to think of the precedent that is being set too. Are Family 1 who'll need two rooms next year still going to be happy paying per room? Even if their 2 yo doesn't fill it?

If the GPs really want their GCs on holiday together then why shouldn't they help cover the cost of the GCs.

I'd continue to divide per adult or at a push a half for the kids.

£215 each adult, still cheap.

Yes @Clymene I too am baffled by everyone saying that it's not fair for Family 2. They are taking up 2 rooms of a 4 room house. Presumably, if they wanted to save money, they would go for a 3 bedroom house and all 4 of them sleep in one room. Why should the other families pay for an extra room ?

No one is being picky about rooms. By the sounds of it OP gets to decide the split and just wants to make sure she’s not being unfair to anyone.

We are going to centreparcs later this year and renting a lodge

we are a family of 2 adults and have one ds (8)
our friends are 2 adults and 2 dc (b9 and g13)
we have just split the cost between us even though our friends daughter is having her own room , our ds are sharing as they are pals at school , obvs both sets parents have own rooms.
I couldn’t be faffed working out the splitting cost thing and we are just friends not related! My pal did offer but to be honest we got a decent deal for a school holiday week so it’s fine for us.
Personally as you are all part of the same family, if i was in either of the smaller family units I would just expect to split it to be honest!
Perhaps have a kitty for day to day consumables to which the family with older dc pay more into ….
Perhaps the family with the 2 dc treat the others to a lovely lunch out somewhere one day …. ?

CP count the number of people in each lodge. No squeezing extra people in so the family of 4 need the extra space.

So a 3 bed lodge won't be an option. Remember you aren't just paying for the lodge but the pool and playparks. They are about the only things that don't cost extra.

We went to center parcs with another family and shared it like this. 3 bedroom lodge.
Us (2 adults, 2 kids) - 2 bedroom small twin bedrooms upstairs with a shared bathroom - paid two thirds of the cost.
Them (2 adults, 1 kid under 2) - 1 bigger bedroom with ensuite - paid one third of the cost.
We would have been going anyway and had a 2 bedroom lodge which cost more than 2/3s of the cost of a 3 bedroom. We just invited them along. We suggested the price split and were ok with it.
So based on that, what you suggested is fair. On the other hand, the other family had a nicer room than either of ours so maybe they should have paid slightly more 🤷🏼‍♀️

We go away with family every year and split the cost 1 x adults and then 0.5 x child over 2.

So I'd split your total cost between 7, family one pays 2x, family 2 3x and family 3 2x

First : is this only about the sleeping arrangements? Then I would divide the cost per room, doesn't mather how many people are going to sleep in it. A room is a room is a room. Is this also about the cost of food etc.? Then I would count an adult as 1 person, children as one half person, babies not counted (food provided/brought along by the parents).

I may take other things into consideration like room size, how many beds they’re using etc (as maybe baby will just be in a cot) but generally I would just split per person so family 1 £500, family 2 £667 and family 3 £333

It's the fact that more people take up more space. If you eat out when you have a family of 4, you expect it to cost more. If you fly or go to the cinema or do pretty much anything, it's more expensive.

I just find it baffling that people think it's unfair to pay more when you're using literally double the space of the other groups on the holiday.

Obviously food is split per adult and things are different when kids from different families are sharing a room but as a basic rule of thumb, paying for the rooms you're using like you would in a hotel seems a pretty fair way of splitting things. That is after all how holiday companies work out the price of accommodation on the whole unless food is included.

You mentioned comparing the cost of a smaller vs larger accommodation. But also mentioned that you have to go in term time as Family 1 has a teacher, with that logic what’s the price difference of term-time to holiday-time? I’m sure the split would be very different if family 1 had to pay the difference for that.
Probably easiest to split 3 ways or offer a little more for taking 2 rooms but just a bit as a nice gesture.

Really?

Very presumptuous of you when most people who have said that have said it wouldn't matter which family they were, that they would still split it 3 ways.

I think the OP only mentioned term Vs holiday time as in family 1 also can't go in term time even though they have a preschool age child.

Obviously the OP can't go in term time because her kids are both in school.

I haven't done any suns @StoppinBy but I'd hazard a guess that most of those people have 2-4 kids. Stands to reason that people will be in favour of an outcome that benefits them

The term time thing is irrelevant. Neither families can go during term and the GPs are unlikely to want to head to CPs without the DGC.

@Clymeme I'm not sure about that. I have six kids and expect to pay for the extra rooms if I'm using them. Other family members didn't choose that I would need more space. It's just how it is.

What might happen is that, as family one needs to holiday at peak season when it costs more, I might decline to go on this one and just go during the term with my family if that works for me and costs less. It depends how much it's about the holiday vs. the company.

You do realise people with kids had holidays before they had kids, sometimes holiday without kids and also holiday with families bigger that theirs.

I got given 2 tickets to an expensive thing for Xmas, I've given one ticket to my friend, I'll split the cost of a ticket with another friend so we pay for half a ticket each as I would like them to both benefit but one has more free income than the other, and we will all evenly split petrol and accommodation.

Once again, you are very presumptuous.

No, family 2 are paying way too much

I’d say £500 per couple

I'm quite generous, so I'd probably split it like this if I was family 2 (because I'd give myself the worse deal. If I was family 1 I'd split it equally 3 ways, or maybe ask family 2 to pay £100 extra. If I was family 3 I'd probably ask for £350 each off each of my children and cover the rest myself.

A 2 bed lodge is £1000.

If the family with two small children didn't go, the family with one small child and the grandparents would be splitting £1000 two ways and paying (presumably) £500 each.

A 4 bed is £1500.

Actually as long as the family with the two small children pays more than £500 - even if they only pay £550 or £600 - the family with the toddler and the grandparents save money and get a cheaper holiday with them than without (as well as getting more space in the communal areas).

Even if the price was just split equally three ways the toddler family and grandparents would pay exactly the same as if the two children family didn't exist and they were booking a two bedroom lodge.

I would count the kids as half, so in total you've got 7.5 people (6 adults and 3 kids).

£1,500 splits quite nicely at £200 per adult and £100 per child.

So, family 1 pays £500, family 2 pays £600 and family 3 pays £400.

Simple

Yes exactly @MrsMullerBecameABaby - only the family with more kids gets a discount if you split equally. Which given it's arguably less pleasant to be share a smaller place with more people, there's no advantage of all bunking in together.

Family two also has to go in the holidays as their children are school age.