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Should the only solo traveller pay twice as much per person for the smallest bedroom?

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People, dialogue, accommodation and prices are fictional.

‘Four bedrooms, four shares. That seems easiest,’ says Lewis in the holiday chat. Maya opens the floor plan again. Three rooms have double beds; hers would fit one single bed and a narrow wardrobe.

Three couples and Maya are considering a four-night house booking for £2,100. The first message described it as £300 each. Lewis now suggests £525 per bedroom, making each member of a couple's share £262.50 and Maya's £525. Nothing has been booked. He says everyone gets a private room, while Maya says the couples also get that privacy and have someone to split it with.

Maya can afford the original £300. Paying another £225 would mean cancelling a separate weekend with her sister. One couple has offered to take the small room if it will fit them, but the listing only describes a single bed. The organiser is tired of comparing houses and wants an answer tonight.

Would you keep the original per-person split, give different bedrooms different prices, or find somewhere else? How should Maya state her £300 limit without turning the whole holiday into a referendum on being single?

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The first usable sentence is ‘I agreed to consider this at £300, and £300 is still my limit.’ Maya does not need to win a theory of holiday fairness before giving that answer. No booking has been made, which makes this the right time to say it. Her sister's weekend explains the trade-off, but the group does not need to approve her other spending.

A room-based split can make sense when people agree to it, but ‘one key each’ is a thin comparison for these rooms. Everyone also gets the kitchen, sitting room and holiday together. They could divide part of the price by person and allocate the rest by bedroom quality. That is a negotiation option, not a formula proving Maya owes a particular amount.

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