Sharing a vacation home with another family - question about choosing rooms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would the person who books automatically get the best room? I say that as someone who is always the person who books everything for any group trip. Seems ridiculous to get some sort of reward for relatively minor labor, though.

It isn’t relatively minor to me. I spend at least 15-20 hours searching for houses that meet the requirements, emailing everyone the finalists, interacting with the rental company, and calculating what everyone owes. No one else EVER offers to do this part.

Consequently, I’m done booking multi family houses. No one appreciates it or offers to help.

20 hours over the course of, what, several weeks? So you expect compensation from your friends for four extra hours of searching AirBnB, sending email, and popping some dollar figures into Excel a week? Again, I always do all of this leg work for group vacations, and it would never dream of me to demand that I get the best room for it. Sort of surprised this is such a commonplace sentiment here.

Sorry, that should be "I would never dream of" or "it would never occur to me," but not both, which is sort of how I rendered it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would the person who books automatically get the best room? I say that as someone who is always the person who books everything for any group trip. Seems ridiculous to get some sort of reward for relatively minor labor, though.

It isn’t relatively minor to me. I spend at least 15-20 hours searching for houses that meet the requirements, emailing everyone the finalists, interacting with the rental company, and calculating what everyone owes. No one else EVER offers to do this part.

Consequently, I’m done booking multi family houses. No one appreciates it or offers to help.

15-20 hours searching for a beach house? If you say so. Our self-appointed family planner searched for general location, availability, and number of occupants. If the listing said it "slept 20" but 5 of those meant single adults slept in chairs, this was of zero concern to her because her and her "hubby" were getting the best room. No one got lists of finalists lol. Consequently, I'm done with those "vacations" (lol).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DDs rental for a year was staggered prices for the rooms.

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Okay?