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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever makes the most sense, just keep it simple. [b]If you're doing it by bedrooms, all bedrooms are worth the same. If you're doing it by people, all people count the same. If you're splitting groceries, everyone pays an equal share (except maybe kids seven and under count as half, but it's easier just to count everyone as whole people).

[/b]I don't do group vacations with high-maintenance people. If you're going to split hairs over the exact square footage of your bedroom closet to try to pay less for your room, I don't travel with you. If you claim you're going to cram yourself, your spouse and your teen into one bedroom to save money over two bedrooms, only to have your teen sleep on the couch in the common room so everyone else feels like they have to tiptoe around until they wake up at noon, I don't travel with you. If you're going to divide grocery bills down to the level of whether you ate the steak or the chicken the night someone grilled for everyone, I don't travel with you. If it's more stress to figure out the bills with you than the vacation was worth, I don't travel with you.[/quote]

that is the correct answer

at the same time don't be a dick to the people who really should be paying less. [b]think about what's fair [/b]-[b] if the single adult is really occupying fewer resources than the families - which, they definitely are - then make sure you (if you are a family) offer to pay a bigger share of the costs. the single person might not take you up on it. but, don't have someone get a windfall and someone else get screwed.[/b] [/quote]

I would co-rent with these two posters.  The rest of you, not at all.[/quote]

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