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'd do this

Where are you getting this from? the OP said 1000 vs 1150.
I would just split it 3 ways. Everything else seems nit picky.

If this was our family we would split it 3 ways. I wouldn’t count the children in the cost at all.

we went on holiday with in-laws before we got a 3 bed caravan, we had one room with a cot and they had 2 rooms, we split the cost equally between the two families.

Oh fgs some of the maths people work out when going away with family/friends.

3 x families = split 3 ways. Simple.

If I was family 2 and was expected to pick up half the cost I’d get my own 2 bed villa and leave 1 &3 to share a villa.

If Family 1 needs to go in school hols I don’t think this arrangement is fair. After all, you could look at prices for a bigger lodge in term time versus school holidays and charge Family 1 the difference.

But the 2bed is £1000, so two extra bedrooms are only £500, which would make it a three way split. I'd go somewhere in between a three way and four way split in this case.

Absolutely this. It's not fair the the family with 2 kids are paying £375 for a room that is actually only costing £150 extra.
But it's also not fair if it's split equally 3 ways, and family 1 and 3 are subsidising family 2

Our family have done this and split 3 ways. We were the couple without kids (at the time), and had no problem paying by family (technically paying per couple - forget about kids costs).

Pretty stingy to do it any other way in my opinion.

If it was our family we (the grandparents) would pay the whole £1500. We’d rather see our kids enjoy our money than leave it to them when we die.

We go away a lot with friends and family, including some single adults. We always divide equally by the number of adults in each group, and fit kids in wherever there's room.

Tricky without knowing how much the rooms vary and whether any/some have en suites. We once had a basic four bed at Sherwood and one was a tiny room with bunk beds and all sharing a bathroom. But have had an exec four bed at Elveden where the rooms were a bit more equal and there were three bathrooms. Maybe full cost divided by 7.5 then x1 for each adult and x0.5 for each child on the premise that family 1 have a larger/better room to fit the cost and the children from family 2 have a small ‘box’ room.

From her OP… about renting the 4bed villa

I think the main thing to know from all this is that these are probably not people you're going to have a good holiday with.

Quibbling over money in any group situation is never going to end well. Among the people I go on holiday with we're more likely to "complain" that someone else has paid more than their share than to worry about doing so ourselves.

We would do this too. Family 1 only being available in term time makes it more expensive and I would say that negates the need for the extra bedroom.

Worst case and f grandparents can’t afford a 3 way split or don’t want to I would say 550, 550 and 400.

Tricky without knowing how much the rooms vary and whether any/some have en suites
The OP described the rooms earlier on.

Looks like family 1 includes a teacher so no. But grandparents would have to pay extra to go in school holidays.

If G-parents are the G-parents to all the children attending I’d just split the cost between the 2 families and pay for my parents to attend. Especially given it’s a school holiday cost which they wouldn’t need to pay for, but also as I’d like to treat them and by splitting it with my sibling would make it easier. Then I’d split the cost slightly more towards the family with 2 kids but not double like the original proposition.

I admit I looked at the costs wrong - it's obviously an extra £350 for the 4th room.
So family 2 pays that £350, and 1/3 of the rest of the cost.
It's not much different to paying per room, but at least it's done fairly

I’m trying to remember what we did when an extended family group went away to a self catering house for DHs 50th birthday. It was complicated by DSS and his girlfriend originally coming for only two nights of the three night stay and then them getting covid so not coming at all. Think DH and I ended up covering all those extra costs.

But overall there were 3 couples (DH and me, my mum and dad and my sister and husband) then my two DC (18 and 16 who had a room each) and my nephew and niece who were 10 and 7 and shared a room.

So 7 rooms in total. Think we basically split it into 7 (so we paid 3/7, sister and BIL 2/7 and the other two rooms 1/7 each) Although we actually ended up paying 4/7 I think. I felt fine with that as it was (a) our idea and (b) it didn’t feel fair for my family to subsidise DHs son not coming but also not fair for him to pay when he couldn’t come.

not sure what I’d do here - OP which family are you?

We've just got from a trip from centre parcs. DH and I paid 50% of total cost because we needed two bedrooms, one for us, one for DC. Other two couples paid 25%. The price is based on bedrooms, we needed half the bedrooms so we paid 50%.
Any other way, and the smaller families are subsidising the larger family which isn't fair.

They aren’t though because they couldn’t get a 1 bed or 2 bed villa for that price.

A lot of what you are paying for is access to center parks and the facilities on offer rather than just the room which is what you have in a hotel. Therefore splitting per room isn’t fair. I would expect a lower price for children than adults.
you are paying extra to go in school holidays for family 1 so it doesn’t then seem fair for family 2 to have to pay double to them when they might have preferred going at a cheaper time.
A 3 way split is probably fairest.

Each family pays £333 each. Family with two kids then pays an extra £150 as they're the ones needing the 4 bed. Let's face it the entire weekend will be spent catering to the whims of their kids because that's what happens with kids that age

Not fair. Should just be split three ways.

When we go we split by adults. But this was driven by the grandparents who want to treat their children / grandchildren so I accept gratefully (we have the most children on our booking so would be the family paying the most in your example).

If your group don’t want to do that I would split the extra room costs 1/3 and 2/3 between the parents so they are each paying towards their child’s place. A lodge isn’t just bedrooms, there is communal space and activities as part of the package too.