OK-- another beach house room splitting (and cost splitting) question

[Anonymous]

How would you split the rooms and cost in this beach house scenario?

Family A: 2 adults, a 4 year old and a 3 month old infant. 4 year old currently does not share a room with the baby.
Family B: 2 adults, twin 7 year olds. 7 year olds share a room and the family generally is pretty flexible on sleeping arrangements (when they travel, they usually just get a single room with 2 double beds).

Three bedroom house: master with queen size bed on first floor; two bedrooms upstairs, one bedroom with 2 twin beds and one bedroom with a double bed.

Family A rented the house and invited Family B to join for a few days. Family B accepted and will stay for 3 days.
The house is on the pricey side. Family B has offered to chip in (Family A did not ask).

How would you allocate the rooms, and should Family A accept Family B's offer (and if so, how would you come up with an amount)?

[Anonymous]

Family A gets upstairs. Twins are invited to share the 4 year olds room ('the kids' room') with one getting a bed the other getter the floor. 4 year old will probably either go to bed before the twins or will think its cool to be hanging with the big kids.

Whether family A accepts money depends on how the invitation was extended. If it was truly done without prior discussion of going in vacation together and family A was doing it regardless, then I wouldn't accept money. Family B should then offer to either pay for a group meal (or two) and bring the alcohol.

[Anonymous]

Typically a beach house with 3 bedrooms is meant to be split between 10 or more people. We've always done it with an inflatable mattress or two.

I'd likely take the one bedroom with the double and then put an inflatable on the floor for the twins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family A gets upstairs. Twins are invited to share the 4 year olds room ('the kids' room') with one getting a bed the other getter the floor. 4 year old will probably either go to bed before the twins or will think its cool to be hanging with the big kids.

Whether family A accepts money depends on how the invitation was extended. If it was truly done without prior discussion of going in vacation together and family A was doing it regardless, then I wouldn't accept money. Family B should then offer to either pay for a group meal (or two) and bring the alcohol.

Pp here. I wrote this from the perspective that upstairs was preferred. Family A chooses if they want to go up or down, but the kids still all bunk together in the same room, unless the twins want to sleep on their parents floor.

[Anonymous]

Family A Parents: Master

Family B Parents + infant: Upstairs double bed

Family A Twins and Family B 4-year old: 3rd bedroom (work out arrangements within the room, but make that the "kid room)

Yes, Family A should accept Family B's offer to chip in. If B can afford half, they should pay half. But at least 1/3 + a night out/dinner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family A Parents: Master

Family B Parents + infant: Upstairs double bed

Family A Twins and Family B 4-year old: 3rd bedroom (work out arrangements within the room, but make that the "kid room)

Yes, Family A should accept Family B's offer to chip in. If B can afford half, they should pay half. But at least 1/3 + a night out/dinner

I think you've gotten the families mixed up from the OP, but I agree with you in principle. Family A and their infant in the Master. Family B in the double. As 4 yo and Bs twins in a "kids room".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family A Parents: Master

Family B Parents + infant: Upstairs double bed

Family A Twins and Family B 4-year old: 3rd bedroom (work out arrangements within the room, but make that the "kid room)

Yes, Family A should accept Family B's offer to chip in. If B can afford half, they should pay half. But at least 1/3 + a night out/dinner

I think you've gotten the families mixed up from the OP, but I agree with you in principle. Family A and their infant in the Master. Family B in the double. As 4 yo and Bs twins in a "kids room".

I think you're right. But in general, the family that initiated the trip should get the master.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you split the rooms and cost in this beach house scenario?

Family A: 2 adults, a 4 year old and a 3 month old infant. 4 year old currently does not share a room with the baby.
Family B: 2 adults, twin 7 year olds. 7 year olds share a room and the family generally is pretty flexible on sleeping arrangements (when they travel, they usually just get a single room with 2 double beds).

Three bedroom house: master with queen size bed on first floor; two bedrooms upstairs, one bedroom with 2 twin beds and one bedroom with a double bed.

Family A rented the house and invited Family B to join for a few days. Family B accepted and will stay for 3 days.
The house is on the pricey side. Family B has offered to chip in (Family A did not ask).

How would you allocate the rooms, and should Family A accept Family B's offer (and if so, how would you come up with an amount)?

Master with Queen: Family A with pack n play for three month old

Bedroom w/ twins: Add an aerobed and put twins and four year old here.

Bedroom w/ double: Parents of Family B

As for cost, well, Family A invited, so Family A needs to come up with the lion's share of the cost. If Family A truly meant for Family B not to pay when they invited Family B, graciously accept what Family B offers or just straight up say it's mean to be a gift and you'd be renting the house anyway (yes?) and let them pay for some meals.

[Anonymous]

Family A already rented the house and then invited Family B along. I think it's in poor taste to invite someone along to get them to subsidize your vacation. I wouldn't want them to pay.

Let Family B buy food or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Typically a beach house with 3 bedrooms is meant to be split between 10 or more people. We've always done it with an inflatable mattress or two.

I'd likely take the one bedroom with the double and then put an inflatable on the floor for the twins.

3 bedrooms for 10 people? Unh, no. Not in my lifetime.

[Anonymous]

The three kids share a room. One kid can sleep on the floor I a sleeping bag.

The couple with the infant that is paying decides which room they prefer.

The other couple takes the other room.

Who pays depends on family and financial dynamics. If family a is uber wealthy, let the other family pay a cleaning fee and that's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family A Parents: Master

Family B Parents + infant: Upstairs double bed

Family A Twins and Family B 4-year old: 3rd bedroom (work out arrangements within the room, but make that the "kid room)

Yes, Family A should accept Family B's offer to chip in. If B can afford half, they should pay half. But at least 1/3 + a night out/dinner

I think you've gotten the families mixed up from the OP, but I agree with you in principle. Family A and their infant in the Master. Family B in the double. As 4 yo and Bs twins in a "kids room".

I think you're right. But in general, the family that initiated the trip should get the master.

They shouldn't pay half if they are only staying half the time. They should pay a quarter, at most.

[Anonymous]

You could try this rent splitting app from the NYT-- the idea is that it keeps offering different ratios of cost splitting until both sides are happy with the deal...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/science/rent-division-calculator.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family A Parents: Master

Family B Parents + infant: Upstairs double bed

Family A Twins and Family B 4-year old: 3rd bedroom (work out arrangements within the room, but make that the "kid room)

Yes, Family A should accept Family B's offer to chip in. If B can afford half, they should pay half. But at least 1/3 + a night out/dinner

I think you've gotten the families mixed up from the OP, but I agree with you in principle. Family A and their infant in the Master. Family B in the double. As 4 yo and Bs twins in a "kids room".

I think you're right. But in general, the family that initiated the trip should get the master.

They shouldn't pay half if they are only staying half the time. They should pay a quarter, at most.

pp here. I mean to say that they should pay half, prorated for the time they are staying. Or at least 1/3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typically a beach house with 3 bedrooms is meant to be split between 10 or more people. We've always done it with an inflatable mattress or two.

I'd likely take the one bedroom with the double and then put an inflatable on the floor for the twins.

3 bedrooms for 10 people? Unh, no. Not in my lifetime.

No kidding! That is a lot of people to stuff into a 3 bedroom! We need 3 bedrooms just for our nuclear family of 5.