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?

What's the difference between 3 and 4 rooms? Family needing 2 rooms pays the difference.

You have a while Lodge, not just use of one room each.
You could get silly and say you're all using a lounge, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. So group 1 pays 4 parts, group two pays 5 parts (for the extra bedroom) and group three pays for 4 parts.

I don't think the current split is fair on group 2. They're subsidising everyone's holiday. Especially at centre parcs where you aren't paying for just accommodation.

I would be thinking ouch if I was family 2 as well. Personally I think 2 lots of £450 and £600 for family 2

We are a two adult and two children family and we would absoloutley insist on paying per room.

If we didn't have kids, then the group would only need a 3 bed. So because we are the ones who mean the lodge needs to be 4 bed, then we pay for that extra room.

As a family of four we would also use up more bathroom time, so why not contribute for the fact that we are half the users of the whole house?

So family 1 get the best deal and also the biggest room? I hope the grandparents are atleast taking one of the twin rooms.

We have had similar mixed family groups going to centre parcs - our experience was that adding a bedroom to the lodge size didn't cost very much so splitting per room will overcharge the family with 2 kids

some serious CF freeloaders here.

I'm the one child family in this situation, we split three ways and I don't believe my sister is a 'serious CF freeloader'.

I know it's hard to imagine on MN, but some people actually just like their families and are happy to do the 'nicest' split.

Oh hang on - one of the doubles is a twin? So which couple gets that?

Another way of doing it per person. Over 2’s pay half price, under 2 is free.
it works out at £214 per adult and £107 per DC.

No it isn't fair. The family of 3 will use the kitchen and bathrooms just as much as the family of 4 will (and in fact an 18 month old first baby is likely to dominate/ his or her parents are likely to expect first priority using any bathroom which has a bath etc.)

When booking as a family with children under 12 children almost never cost adult price except in situations where an 18 month old would not be free of charge.

Do the family of 3 by any chance have the biggest room to fit a cot?

Are any of the rooms ensuite?

I'd divide the cost counting adults as one unit and children (including the 18 month old) as half a unit. The family of 4 will still pay most but the family of 3 won't be such freeloaders.

I would split by 3 as it seems unfair that one family pays double just for having one more small child! I get that they need an extra room.
It’s not just the accommodation you pay for is it really- we always factor in that the pool is some of the cost - about £150 of the accommodation charge for a long weekend as that’s what we’d pay for a family ticket to a similar swimming pool if we went 3 times!

Of course it makes a difference. You go to Centerparcs you're not just paying for a bedroom you're paying for everything else that comes with it including the swimming etc. Using this logic the family with 1 child should pay more than the 2 adults.

As an aside, I'm glad I'm not in this family. We have 1 child each but my sister has a stepchild and never would I quibble about paying the same when both kids are coming. We're family. I wouldn't want a holiday knowing I've paid half as much as a sibling to be there when she has just one extra child.

When it isn't the holidays my sister can only ever come for 2 nights and i insist on her paying less on the logic that we have the communal space to ourselves for an evening, even though their bedroom is empty. She would do the same for me, before I had a child i would pay less even if her daughter was sharing their room.

You're family and you're talking about £100/£150 either way. And posting on Mumsnet because you can't agree 🤦🏻‍♀️

We do group holidays with friends and when the kids were all under 10 we split costs per adult.
now they’re older it’s per person because the kids need more space

I hope the grandparents are atleast taking one of the twin rooms.

Why?

I'd also divide it by three

It’s split equally but I wouldn’t consider it fair…
i would do 1/3 to be in the spirit of things

I think that's fine. Pay for bedrooms allocated.

Divide equally by 3

To add another view

Family 2 are likely the reason everyone else is having to pay the premium of going within the half term holidays. Everyone else could book annual leave and go within term time, right?

I think it’s reasonable for them to pay slightly more but perhaps 600 and other rooms 450.

Why? My parents would hate that. They'd take the small room without ensuite (if there was one) rather than 2 single beds

But you’re not staying in a hotel where the cost is purely for the room - you’re paying a huge premium for the facilities outside of the lodge which you all have equal access to.

Im so glad my family don’t quibble about things like this - it would be split 3 ways in our case, no questions asked. If going with friends where some don’t have children, we would have similar to what other PP have proposed where the family pay a little more because there are 4 of them but not double the rest.

This come up on mumsnet all the time. I’ve never understood why it would be anything other than divided by the total number of bedrooms and then each family pays for the number of bedrooms that they take (assuming all bedrooms are of equal value, and in the case of center parcs they are identical).

It’s not fair to expect a family who either doesn’t have kids or is prepared to share a bedroom with their kids to subsidised the cost of the holiday for the family who needs more bedrooms.

In the case of center parcs, and most self catered holiday homes, the cost of the accommodation is directly proportional to the number of bedrooms, therefore the cost of the holiday should be directly proportionate to the number of bedrooms each family is occupying.

We’re going to center parcs with friends in July and staying in a 4x bedroom lodge. We have 1x child and will take 2x bedrooms. Our friends have 2x children and will also take 2x bedrooms. We are splitting the cost 50/50 between the two families. If they needed 3x bedrooms and we only needed 1x bedroom the cost would be split 75/25. There’s absolutely no way I would agree to subsidise their holiday because they need more bedrooms and there’s absolutely no way they would expect me to.

Because I think family 2 paying £750 for 2 twin rooms is crap. Family 1 get the best price and biggest room, family 2 are paying double so they should atleast get a double room in my opinion. If I was them I’d probably just not bother booking otherwise.

Or just maybe, the grandparents, auntie and uncle genuinely want to spend time with these children?

I’m liking the 600 x1 and 450 x2 option posited by PP. and if the two child family pays more, then they should get exclusive use of one of the bathrooms.

So just checked same dates and

3 bed lodge is £1150 (£1149)
2 bed lodge is £1000 (£999)