To not expect to pay excessive amount as we're family.

[Boop1e]

In laws brought themselves a caravan on a haven site a year ago. Decided to spend some pension money on it.
the site fees have renewed and have gone up just like everything else in life.
They don't rent it out and we only use it as family.
Anyway father in law has just charged his own son £75 for 3 nights to use it. He owed me money for ordering him a new tablet and doing him a favour so took the money out of that which I couldn't afford to lose.

Before the season started he mentioned charging £25 a day but nothing else happened and no mention of it again before we went.

He's also charged brother in law £150 to use but they paid upfront.

Am i being unreasonable to feel this is a lot to charge your own children and £10 or so a day would be sufficient. I'm not convinced I spend £25 a day heating and lighting my 3 bed home. They get their passes included with the caravan for 10 people.

Husband won't challenge it because it won't make any difference.

Funnily enough my parents have a caravan and myself and my siblings have been begging them to charge us a price per night as we feel scabby using it for free. We always end up buying them presents or vouchers when we use it as a thank you so a set fee per night would be easier for us and better for them to go toward increasing heating, electricity, gas, rent etc.... 25 per night is very little considering that is the price for your family, not per head. YABU

They wouldn't have been asked to contribute to the upkeep had they not taken four holidays there!

£25 is not 'excessive'

I think this is great value for money.

It would be a bit of a piss take if they bought it and payed all of the fees associated with it, whilst everyone stayed there for free or too cheap.

You are in a fortunate position that you can stay there so cheap and if they hadn’t bought it then you wouldn’t have been able to.

You are free to buy your own caravan if you think you are getting a bad deal.

"Take them out to dinner instead but don't fall into the trap of the upkeep of their caravan no matter how cheap it is for you to stay there."

Dinner out would cost more than £75.

YABVU (and taking the p!ss if you expect to stay in it for free). Someone in our family had a static caravan and we used to give them £10 a night to stay in it £20 years ago!!

Not with someone like the OP paying for it

@Wiseflower I am assuming the in-laws aren’t forcing the OP to holiday there. They are only asking for a contribution for costs incurred whilst they are staying there eg gas/electric which they wouldn’t be incurring if no-one is in the caravan. They are not expecting them to be pay the site fees.

I wonder what would happen if in-laws think the caravan is too expensive now and sell it, would OP still expect free holidays.

Can’t remember the last time my parents paid for a holiday for me, think it was in my student days.

Bought!

@SheilaFentiman

dinner out would cost more than £75
unless op takes them to McDonald’s which she might

:-)

Happy Meals all round!

Who provided the bedding/towels?

Who made up the beds with clean sheets?

Who stripped the beds afterwards, did the laundry and remade them ready for the next guests?

I'm sure you'll say that you took your own, stripped and remade all the beds (twice) and took the washing home with you, but I bet you didn't.

@Wiseflower

Eh??

dinner out would cost more than £75

unless op takes them to McDonald’s

which she might

Well it was on you to ask before you used their facilities. You don't use people's stuff and then complain you didn't ask if there was a cost.

Lesson learnt anyway, you'll never use it again so sorted.

Incredibly cheap!

Recently paid £300 for same length of break on one of these sites so you've paid 25% ... Seems like a bargain to me!

So it's OK for adult children to still be sponging off their parents to get a very cheap holiday, £25 a night is a steal.

My father has a caravan in a similar type of place which we use maybe one a year for a week or so. The site fees are white steep (£4k ish per year). We have offered to pay but he has always refused. I think it’s fair enough for him to charge to cover the increased costs and £25 per night is quite reasonable of you compare it to what you would pay in general.

Bloody heck your an entitled CF if ever there was one!

He'd already told you he was charging. He didn't need to confirm it, he probably expected you to grasp it the first time.

@IamKlaus

I hope you never spend a penny on yourself op and that all your money is family money going into a savings pot so that you can buy a caravan or villa for your own kids to use for free holidays when they’re adults! Cos if they are anything like you, that’s what they will be expecting!

Best get scrimping!

What a bizarre hope, ,and a truly weird comment.

Do you even understand the discussion here? Are you quite well?

Your comment is far weirder. Do you really not understand what she's saying?

You say he doesn't need to charge you yet you gladly helped him buy an iPad because he knows you can help with finding a bargain. The two are connected. Perhaps the reason why he's got lots of money is because he's careful with it!

*What a bizarre hope, ,and a truly weird comment.

Do you even understand the discussion here? Are you quite well?*

The only weird comment is yours @IamKlaus