My DH and I are going to join his three sisters on a 5 day holiday break in September in a four bedroomed cottage. Payment is now due. The sister who has made the booking also has a DH. The other two sisters are single. She has asked what we think about how we split the payment, ie do we split it by four, with two couples taking two bedrooms and the single sisters taking the other two bedrooms (her preference) or split by 6, the two couples paying a third each and the single occupants paying a sixth each. I haven’t got a bee in my bonnet about it but would really appreciate your thoughts.
I said split by 4 this morning, but reading all these comments, I think I've changed my mind. In my defence, (!!) , because I let a property with 6 bedrooms, I was thinking that servicing a bedroom and cleaning the bathroom took just as much work whether one person had used it or two, so the charge should be by room.As an aside, I sometimes used to listen to guests on arrival deciding who was to have which bedroom. It was quite funny!
Good idea on first dibs. A friend of me one goes to all trouble of organising a weekend away for herself and 3 other old school friends every year. She likes to do all the organising and they are happy to let her but is on the understanding she gets to pick her room first, and drinks are paid for on the first night.
Splitting by 6 seems fairest to me, ie price per head. If you split it by 4, that means the two singles are partly paying for 1 of each couple, which seems unfair.
I’m also in the split by 6 camp . But I’d suggest that the couple who booked the house get first dibs of the rooms rather than a drawing straws . As they’ve had to find and book the house .
Split it into six payers because six individuals will be sharing other facilities such as water supply ,drainage, sitting room, bathrooms ,storage, car parking and kitchen.
I would say split by 6. However if the singles end up with considerably inferior rooms and the doubles have en suites (as often happens in hotels) then some other method would need to be found. Food should be split 6 ways.
The OP clarified all bedrooms are en suite. If by inferior you mean smaller, well, single folk shouldn’t need as much space as couples surely?
I m on the split 6 ways camp 6 people 6 payments only fair way …if you split it four ways the two single sisters as paying the same as the pairs and that’s very unfair No brainier 6 people 6 payments
I would say split by 6. However if the singles end up with considerably inferior rooms and the doubles have en suites (as often happens in hotels) then some other method would need to be found. Food should be split 6 ways.
Divide by six, otherwise you are going to have endless recriminations such as those to do with restaurant bills. You will all making use of the facilities provided in the cottage besides bedroom accommodation.