Another splitting costs with family

[Bananapants5]

Weekend trip with family

Parents (pensioners)
Sibling 1 - with husband and 2 children (young)
Sibling 2 - with husband - teen children not interested in coming.

Wanting to book 4 bed place due to ages of sibling 1s children
How should cost be split?

Split into 8 and then each family pay cost? (YABU)
Split among 6 adults? (YANBU)

To not drip feed the cost of 4 bed place is no more than a 3 bed place

In our friendship group we split by room. There will be a reason the 4 bed is the same price as the 3 bed!

In our family my parents just pay for it all, thankfully 😂

I would split it so that each couple pays 1/3 😊

Split 3 ways

Split into 3.. but parents and the couple without kids get first choice of rooms, then the family get remaining two rooms

Split 3 ways

God, this and only this.

Or this.

But I wouldn't start divvying it up by number of children. That's a bit tight.

That's what we did.

Unfortunately we were the ones with the four children. 😂

I would suggest splitting by room if I was the sibling with young children but would happily split just between the adults if I was the sibling with teens at home.

Per room.

This isn’t a bad idea.
the main issue is we all want to pay our way 😂

Yeah I don’t understand this one

That does make sense to me in that kids don’t tend to cost as much as adults for food / drink, so aren’t equally weighted for groceries, but they take up lots of space so would count just as much as adults for accommodation.

No extra for 4 bed - split between 3 couples /6 adults no question

Since the four bed place is the same price as the three bed place, the easiest option is for each adult couple to pay a third and think of the fourth bedroom as coming free.

As the "other" sibling I'd be happy to do this, but I'd make sure I referred to the kids getting a free room, so that when the situation comes up on your next trip and a fourth bedroom costs extra there'll be no doubt that those parents should cover the extra for their kids.

In my friendship group we split between person whether they be adult or child, each family pays for the number of people.

I voted YABU just because I don't think the pensioner parents should be subsidising the family with 2 kids.

50/50 and treat the parents?

Also depends on how the other costs are split. Food costs shared amongst 6 adults (so kids eat free), meals out split between 6 adults? who pays for extras like ice-cream, do adults take it in turns to treat the others? So all have kids costs covered / subsidised.

Also depends how it came about.
Grandparents: "let's book this 3 bedroom lodge"
sibling 2: " that's fine, we're up for paying 1/3 of the price"
sibling 1: " little dc would be better in their own room, let's book this identical 4 bed lodge which is the same price."

Or
Gps " let's book a 3 bed place"
sibling 1: "we need a 4 bed place"
(4 bed place booked)
sometime later...
sibling 1: "oh we could have got a 3 bed for the same price, so the little dc go free".

I would split by room. You'd need a two bed place if it was just two couples and no kids?

Oh my Christ another post where I thank the lord I have the family I do and we don't spend our time whittling over what in the end will be a few quid.

If this is honestly an actual discussion then I'd be questioning whether I want to go away with people like this.

Have you factored in the spare bedroom that no one can sleep in and absolutely must be kept spare incase anyone gets ill or needs some time out 🤣🤣

Divided by 3.

My brothers never let me pay more (I'm the only one with dc) but id treat everyone at some point, depending on budget it might be an evening meal, lunch or a day trip

Either split 3 ways (but only because the 3 bed would be the same price) or a percentage split of 30/40/30 to acknowledge Sibling 1's DCs.