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?

We went to a 4 night break last summer. 4 bedrooms

Family 1 (us) 2 adults, 2 kids.
Family 2: 2 adults, 1 kid. (My brother and sis in law)
Family 3: 2 adults (my parents)

We said we will pay extra as we did need the extra room (only double beds/ x2 single beds in rooms).

We split all food/activities etc in half after the 4 days (my bro and sis in law paid for everything as and when and we just split in half afterwards)

Paying for the accommodation it self: I paid for it £2500. We split it in half between me and my brother as it was our treat for our parents. I argued that I would pay more as we were using extra room. They refused. So we just split in half. And guess what, no one slept in their allocated room. So really everyone used every bedroom lol.

One night all 3 grand kids were with my parents squished in a double bed because the 3 kids wanted to sleep with them.

Made great memories.

Sorry off track, but we were lucky that both me/hubby and my bro/sis in law were happy to just go halves. And we do this for everything.

Hopefully you guys work it out and just go create fab memories !

In my family we'd split the cost equally per family.

But the 18mo being there doesn't affect how many rooms the group needs. There or not, they still need a 4bed house.

Taking it even further, as per the argument re the outdoor facilities, why not say that 50% of the cost is for outside and 50% is for inside.

For the first half of the cost, for the setting, split into thirds.

For the second half of the cost, split by room required.

You must be family 1. Split by 3, price per room. All other activities and food are paid for separately anyhow.

So larger family should pay the extra 150 and split the rest equally. Simple

That's not a fair spilt and a lodge doesn't really compare to 4 separate bedrooms in a hotel. You will all be sharing the living areas in the lodge. I have been to center parcs many times and we didn't use the bedrooms during the day.
I would divide the 1500 into 2. 750 for the cost of the lodge living areas and the center park amenities. This is 250 per family.

The 2nd 750 is divided into 4 for each room so 187.5 per room.
I would then average out costs to:
Family 1 440
family 2 620
grand parents 440

I don't think it's fair. I am a single parent with two school age kids on approx £25,000 a year, my sister and her DH have one preschooler on approx £100,000 a year. My parents are retired. We divide holidays in three, even though my kids need more space I simply couldn't afford to join in on family holidays if I had to pay 50% of the cost. My family know this, and a three way split works fine for everyone, they would rather have me and my kids there then be excluded because of my income.

How much to you value time all together? More than the £300 odd you will save by choosing this as your hill to die on? Family 2 will have a more expensive holiday anyway as their kids will eat more and no doubt want to do more of the expensive extras that centre parcs offer.

Personally I would do a three way split, you will be grateful of this when you children are older and family 2's kids have left home and no longer want to join in.

My apologies OP, family 2 were 2 rooms not one!

Because they have their own room to sleep in

Although I am now moving to the view that you split the cost of a 3 bed across the 3 families and the family with 2 DCs needing extra bedroom pays the difference for the upgrade to 4 bed.

This changes things even further.

I'd say in that case, family of four could go outside of school holidays then they and the grandparents should pay the tern time cheaper rate per room. Family one then pay the supplement.

I mean, there's a hundred different ways you could split thus and attempt to make it make sense

Long and short of it - who isn't happy with the set up??

Family 1 is a teacher hence term time only

We go to CP regularly and share with almost the exact same set up. We have always divide the cost by the bedrooms. We pay half as use 2 bedrooms. We have gone for years and are all happy with the split.

I would have said pay per room but if family 1 are pushing up price by needing to book outside of term time I would just divide by 3 or maybe grandparents pay a bit less.

That's a good idea, though not especially fair on the grandparents. Family 1 with the 18 month old probably won't like it either but are getting the biggest room and paying the least per person so haven't really got grounds to grumble.

We count an adult as 1 and children as 0.5 (half an adults cost) so would be 1500/7.5 = £200

Room 1 200×2.5 = 500
Room 2 200x3=600
Room 3 200x2=400

Look at it this way, if the family with the 2 kids weren’t going, family with 1 kid and the grandparents would have to pay £500 each to cover the cost of a 2 bed lodge. So the same cost as if the 4 bed lodge was split 3 ways. Family with 1 kid and grandparents would be benefiting by £125 each if family 2 come and pay £750 for half the 4 bed lodge.

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The 4-bed lodge is £1,500.
The 3-bed lodge is £1,150. So the extra bedroom is £350.

A three-way split (discounting the tiny baby) is, therefore, £383, with the family of four paying c. £733. It's only slightly less than the £750 that the OP originally floated.

Add in the baby, and it's £442 for the couple with the baby, £354 for the grandparents and £704 for the family of four.

I think this is the fairest split, TBH.

£442 for room one
£704 for rooms two and three
£354 for room four

The 3bed is £1150

The 4bed is £1500

The extra bedroom is therefore £350 extra.

Ah xpost

I don't think it's fair.

Family 1 (3 people) want the largest and best room, but only pay the 2 person rate?

Family 2 having to pay double family 2, even though they'll likely be allocated the shit rooms and they only have 1 extra child than family 1?

I think 30/30/40 split (£450/£450/£600) would seem fairer, or even £400 grandparents, £500 family of 3 with the best room, £600 family of 4 with the 2 worst rooms.

Whilst I’d split cost per family, I also think fine to pay per room, one family is paying more as they’ve chosen to have 2 kids. When the kids are all older it evens out as you’ll all be paying for 2 rooms even with just one kid.

I would divide the costs by room and people, because everyone is sharing the facilities. For example, half the cost is divided by room (50/4= 12.5% per room) and the other half is divided by number of people but children cost half the amount for adults, so for 6 adults plus 3 children I would do 50/7.5 which is 6.7% per adult and 3.3% per child.

Family 1:
1 room 12.5%
2 adults + 1 child 16.7%
Total 29.2%

Family 2:
2 rooms 25%
2 adults + 2 children 20%
Total 45%

Family 3:
1 room 12.5%
2 adults 13.4%
Total 25.9%

However, it also depends on each family's finances. For example, if the grandparents are comfortably off and keen to spend the time with their grandchildren, they might be happy to contribute more towards the cost, despite only being 2 people in 1 room.

I suppose the other way of doing it would be to compare the cost of different lodges with different numbers of bedrooms, but the fact is that no one would be likely to go just by themselves, would they? Or at least not the grandparents.

They aren’t in a hotel, so it’s not just the bedroom. The 4 bed will also have extra living space, and so the 3 beds have 2 bathrooms?

That's because you've decided the rate should be per person not per room. Its subjective.