The trouble is, that in almost all properties, there are rooms of different sizes and different qualities.
Someone or one group will always have to go in the lesser room. There is always the potential for whoever that is to feel short-changed….if they are the kind of person who feels like that.
Above,someone mentioned the rooms somewhere with bunk beds and sofa beds. Clearly these are lesser rooms than the bigger double room. When the property was booked, it will have been clear the rooms were not all equal.
You can get into calculations of price to be paid based upon the quality of room, size of room etc etc, but to most this will feel like penny pinching and be unnecessary. Practicalities usually count for something and make sense to most people….larger groups get bigger rooms and probably the limited en-suite rooms too, so a larger number of people get to benefit from those facilities, plus of course, a smaller number are left sharing any joint facitilities. But if the single person wants to take the bigger room or the en-suite room, because ‘why should they miss out due to being single’ then that means the shared bathroom facilities being shared by more people and often a larger group in a smaller bedroom.
If you book properties with smaller rooms or non-en-suites, you probably have to be prepared to go in the least of the rooms. If you’re very bothered about not doing this, you need to agree how rooms will be alloactaed before you book. The same goes for all the other disagreements which seem to happen in self catering group hols - how will food bills be split, booze bills etc. Where there is a mix of single people, couples and families, it seems there is always scope for someone to feel taken advantage of or someone to feel others have had more than their share. As I said before, group holidays don’t really work for people who want to ensure their own definition of fair is applied to the letter. If you aren’t prepared to take the lesser room or pay a bit more, then it’s best not to go.
If I’d been first to arrive and as the single in a group of couples, I wouldn’t have taken the best room. That wouldn’t have been because I felt that as a single I deserved less blah blah blah, but because I’d have thought about the fact that if I did that, 2 people, instead of just one would end up with the non-en-suite room. But sometimes I think single people have an axe to grind…and I can understand it ….they feel the world revolves around couples and they often get a bad deal…..and in a sense they are right because many things, including many bedrooms are built for two. But when you choose to go on a holiday with couples, you know it’s majority couples and recognise it as such ….that doesn’t mean feeling inferior or due lesser facilities, but simply that practicalities might mean couples having first access to facilities that were designed for 2 people.
As a childless single at certain points, I sometimes holidayed with couples and families. It did feel like the timetable revolved around the needs of small children and I always had the smallest room. But to be honest, if I’d wanted a different kind of holiday, I’d have needed to find a group of singles to go with. It wouldn’t have made sense for a couple or family to be in the room I had. We would have had to book a bigger and more expensive place if the family were to take more rooms. So I accepted that at this point and in this scenario, it helped if I was the flexible one. And yes, the families probably did have a slightly annoying g expectation that I would be. Couples and families can seem annoying entitled sometimes. But in practical terms for them to say or insist that I took the better facilities and they woukd squeeze into the lesser facilities, or if the rooms were equal sized, use the shared bathroom, just would have been more impracticality for more people. And what’s the point…..unless you really want to make some kind of point or have zero awareness of the needs of others…..and if that’s the case, why are you going away with these people who are your so-called friends, if all you want to do is make a point about singles in the world?