How would you split the cost of the villa?

[Lapdog]

Villa has 3 double bedrooms, one single bedroom.

6 adults are going. 2 couples and 2 singles.

Villa costs £2000. Do you split cost by bedroom? Or do you divide by 6?

So should cost be £400 a room?
or £333 each?

Why is the single person in the double room being privileged in this scenario? They have the best deal already with a double to themselves.

I would divide by 6 but if you want to charge for what people are actually getting - £600 for each double room, £400 for the single, so £600 for each couple, £600 for the single occupant of the double room, £400 for the person in the single. But 6 friends away together should just split evenly.

@Snugglemonkey Because it's expensive to fund these things as a single person. The two single people are funding a holiday on a single income, whereas the others who are in a couple have a double income.

Have you seen what the rooms are like (online photos/details)?

I'd probably try and work it out so the person in the single room pays less than the single person in the double room. Maybe speak to them both and see if either of them is happy to pay extra for having the double to themselves (otherwise maybe draw them out of a hat 😂)

£250 for person in single room. £350 for everyone else.

We have no idea about the financial status of any of them though! And two people have two incomes (probably) but are also paying double - so are not any better off?

I’d suggest single room £275 and each of the 5 people in the double rooms pay £345.
Or if there isn’t such a big difference in size or facilities, £300 / £340x5

Absolutely! Couples rarely think about or notice this.

I wouldn't divide by 6. For a start I don't think the single person with a double bedroom all to themselves should be paying the same as 2 adults sharing or the adult who only gets a single bedroom.

I would divide it this way

£2000 is whole house cost. Whole house is a lot more than just bedrooms and you get a lot more out of the "day time" rooms

£1200 gets divided by 6 = £200 pp
Other £800 gets divided by room with differential for smaller room
£800 / 3.75 = £213.33 for each double room. £160 for single room.

So Each couple pays £613.33 = £306.66 each
Single person in a double room pays £413.33 as they have a lot more private space than anyone else
Single person in a single room pays £360

The single person in the single room is paying more than each person in a couple! That doesn’t seem fair. Single rooms are usually not as nice or spacious as a double.

Agree that the single in the small room pays less. Everyone else pays the same. The couples sharing are doing so because they want to (presumably!) and the single in the double room is getting a bigger room. And everyone is sharing communal spaces and the pool etc. It’s just the small single who should get a discount for a (probably) crappy room. It’s rubbish being the single who gets the poky room with no view :-(

Unless it's a box room it's still more privacy and personal space than two sharing.

Look at any multi-room bnb or small hotel - can you find any where their single bedrooms are only half the price of the double rooms?

,,, a few examples I can find from small hotels

Double rooms £150 per room per night. Single rooms £115 per room per night.

Double rooms £245 per room per night
Single rooms £185 per room per night

Double rooms £119 per room per night
Single rooms £86 per room per night

This is nornal. It doesn't take half the energy and resources to heat/cool, clean and refresh (eg make the bed) a single room compared to a double room. 75% is a reasonable weighting and yes that means a solo traveller pays more, otherwise the couples are subsidising that person. If the room is a pokey hole the room weighting in my calculations above could be a bit lower, but if that was the case that holidaymaker would be spending more time in and getting more benefit from the shared areas of the hoise.

I'd divide by 6 even if I was the single person in the single room, it's only for sleeping in and I don't care about ensuites.

Divide by 6
Singles toss a coin for the best room

There has to be some discount for the single room. Flipping a coin for it isn't fair as there is no chance the couples will end up in it.

I've been there although in our case it was our DS that always got allocated the rubbish single room as other families had 2 DCs.

On one memorable occasion his was clearly the maids room with a metal bed that collapsed and no air con - he ended up sleeping in the living room as was too hot otherwise.

The base price for each room is £500 if divided equally. Therefore maybe something like 2 x doubles for 2 = £650 per room, £400 for 1 person in double and £300 for single.

Unless it's a box room it's still more privacy and personal space than two sharing.

But they are couples! Presumably they like to be in each other's company.

Single people always have to pay proportionately more; single rooms are rarely half the cost of doubles. @Lapdog if you are good friends, give the single person in the single room a bit of a break.