Guides

Short guides to what families sharing a trip most often have to sort out. Each one has a worked example you can check yourself.

• How to split costs at a holiday cabin when every family has a different number of childrenThirds, per head or children at half? A worked example with three families and the rules worth agreeing on before you leave.
• One bill at the restaurant: one family pays, everyone pays their own shareThree families at one table and a single bill at the end. How to split it by who ate and drank what, including a bottle of wine for two, in Spolu.
• New Year’s Eve at a cabin with several families: from the deposit to the settlementWho pays the deposit, how to split the cabin when someone arrives on 31 December, and how to settle up without an evening of sums. With an example.
• A family with children and couples without in one cabin: how to split the accommodationPer family, per person, per bed or per room? All four on one example, and a recommendation nobody will feel short-changed by.
• Shared food at a holiday cabin: a kitty, taking turns or everyone their own?Three ways families share shopping and cooking at a cabin, where each goes wrong, and an example of settling up at the end, alcohol included.
• Driving on holiday with several families: how to split fuel, vignettes and tollsWho pays for fuel when several families share a car? Per family, per person or children at half. A drive to the sea as an example, and what not to forget.
• What to do on a holiday with other families: ideas, voting and the day of the tripHow to agree where to go without a long chat thread. Ideas with a map link, one-tap voting, a program by day and an expense only for those who went.