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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did you not discuss this ahead of time? You were wrong not to, and the other kids’ parents were wrong not to offer. If you need the money, ask, if not chalk it up to a life experience. How many rooms were there? It’s a little dodgier if they weren’t all in your room or the room the other kid paid for.[/quote]

15 - 17 year olds.  The two kids who didn’t pay shared a room.  My plan was that my kid would stay in my room, but the kid who paid offered him the other bed in his room.

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If the kids were of different sex, then I can see the two additional rooms. But if they were all boys/girls, at least the other three kids could have shared  one room.

OP - I see a lot of lessons learned here,  I’m sure that the parents of the one kid that paid were surprised that he was charged full price for a room and that you were going to have  their 16yo kid stay in a room alone -.

I’m curious, if the other kids had offered to pay for their own rooms,  would you have gotten them each their own?
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The decision to book three rooms was made before I had any idea the kid was paying.   This was a sports ID camp, with college coaches who the kids were trying to impress.  In my opinion, sleep is critical to playing well, so I wasn't going to ask my kid to sleep on the floor or share a bed.  I assumed that others felt the same way, and based on that, I booked a bed for each kid, plus one for myself which meant 3 rooms total.  When I texted the parents to confirm the plan, I said "We're booked at X hotel.  I can add extra rooms."

The kid who paid for the room did so at check in.  He just handed over a card and asked that one of the rooms be charged to him. He then asked my kid if he wanted to share.  My kid said something to him about paying for half the room and he said no, his mom had told him to pay for it.   He did something similar one of the times we stopped for gas, and when we stopped for fast food on the way up and the way back.  When I paid for dinner for the group, he apple paid me the appropriate amount without me asking.  It seemed clear that his mom had done some coaching about how to make sure he was paying for himself.  I don't imagine they were surprised. [/quote]

Kids don't need their own hotel rooms.  YOU wanted your own hotel room and that's differnt.  If you can afford these sports, and travel, stop being petty.  Its really strange someone this comfortable is petty.  You would have gotten two hotel rooms anyway.  Let the kids pay directly for their own food.  Whats with the reinbursement non-sense?[/quote]

What? She would have gotten only one hotel room with two beds for her and her son.[/quote]

And, another child paid for the second hotel room and all the other boys could have stayed in there.  She wanted her own room and a room for her son so she choose to pay for two rooms.  She should have been upfront with the plan.  She wouldn't have shared with her son.  She was clear in her post of that.[/quote]

Just pay for your own share already, before OP has to ask. You are so cheap and trashy.[/quote]

No she WAS planning on her son staying with her but the boy who paid for his own room offered for OPs so. To share with him. [/quote]

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