This is unfair

Bob_the_Saver

lewroll wrote: »

Can I ask if either you or HXDave are in the position where you are always in a couple/group or do you ever travel alone?
I feel that has an impact on how you view things

Usually as a couple but many times alone but I still understand.

ferf1223

lewroll wrote: »

Can I ask if either you or HXDave are in the position where you are always in a couple/group or do you ever travel alone?
I feel that has an impact on how you view things

I can understand how solo travellers feel a bit miffed about it, but it's just not a complicated thing...if the hotel costs £x per night based on double occupancy it costs £x per night - just because only one person may be staying in the room rather than two doesn't make a difference to the cost per night...so it is only logical that a solo traveller would have to pay more on a per-person basis...is the tour operator supposed to take a loss for solo travellers? I don't know how the price breaks down, but my assumption would be that most of the supplement is for the hotel side and not the coach side - since the coach is going to run anyway.

Solo travellers could go to the US where rates are generally based on $x per night (sometimes a supplement for people over 2), not $x per person and avoid the single supplement completely...but would it then be expected then that the price per night should be cut in half because only one person is staying in the room when rates are based on double occupancy? That wouldn't make sense...

duchy

Life isn't fair sometimes.

(and yes I've just got back from a solo trip to the US-so it's not that I don't understand -however it's just common sense-you want a room to yourself you pay for it-you have two in a room you split the cost)

lovebargainshatewaste

There are two options here:

1. Call the hotel (if you which hotel in Bruges the tour company uses) and ask them if they have a single room. If they do, contact tour company and say you'd like one of those rooms. They shouldn't then charge you a supplement for being on your own.

2. Scrap that trip and search the internet for single-friendly travel companies. They usually don't charge extra for single occupancy, and have trips all over the world.

It can be frustrating having to pay the supplement for travelling alone. That's the way it is, especially when most hotels have only double/twin/family rooms. There are hotels around though, that have single rooms, you just have to find them.

Good luck. Hope you find somewhere to go that's a reasonable (to you) price.

jen_br

I owned a small BnB I used to get single people argue with me constantly about the single price but the thing is...

A) I still have to clean the ENTIRE room change all the linens etc despite only one person staying there...
I loose money because I could have gotten the room rented to a double who would have eaten etc therefore more money for me.


I realise you may find it annoying but think of the owners

Bob_the_Saver

oki1875 wrote: »

Wanted to treat myself by a short 3days break to Bruges by coach. The company advertises this break as a deal for £165 but when I made an enquiry the price went up to £269. This is with a single supplement. This is almost a double!!! I just disagree with it. Its so unfair for the single travellers.

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kiwi07

lovebargainshatewaste wrote: »

There are two options here:

1. Call the hotel (if you which hotel in Bruges the tour company uses) and ask them if they have a single room. If they do, contact tour company and say you'd like one of those rooms. They shouldn't then charge you a supplement for being on your own.

2. Scrap that trip and search the internet for single-friendly travel companies. They usually don't charge extra for single occupancy, and have trips all over the world.

It can be frustrating having to pay the supplement for travelling alone. That's the way it is, especially when most hotels have only double/twin/family rooms. There are hotels around though, that have single rooms, you just have to find them.

Good luck. Hope you find somewhere to go that's a reasonable (to you) price.

Are you sure there are single-friendly travel companies without charge for single occupancy? I looked at Solos and Just you, they soooooo expensive...:mad:

balletshoes

lewroll wrote: »

Can I ask if either you or HXDave are in the position where you are always in a couple/group or do you ever travel alone?
I feel that has an impact on how you view things

I usually travel as a lone adult with a child, and just accept that if I'm buying any kind of a holiday package, I'm paying under-occupancy charges which can amount to almost to the same cost as 2 adults. So often I do it all independently, and find that way I'm usually only paying for what I need.

thelawnet

I don't understand why people complain.

I book holidays for 2 adults + 2 young children. We occupy one room, we expect to pay the same as 1 person occupying one room, because if there are (say) 100 rooms in the hotel then each room should logically earn the same amount.

Obviously we might cause a little more wear on the carpet, but likewise we buy more food, drinks and other hotel services. Sometimes of course a standard room doesn't fit all 4 of us, in this case we pay for two rooms, or we pay more for a larger one.

When it comes to buses and planes, you pay for a seat, one seat fits one person (a hotel room can fit any number in theory).

So when I book my holidays I book 4 seats on the plane and 1 room in the hotel, and then we buy food for each person as we consume it. I don't like the idea of holidays costing £x per person, it's all very arbitrary, obviously if you book with a company that maintains this illusion, then you are going to have to pay various supplements to balance out the underlying per seat (travel)/per room (accommodation)/per person (food) dynamics.

mum2one

balletshoes wrote: »

I usually travel as a lone adult with a child, and just accept that if I'm buying any kind of a holiday package, I'm paying under-occupancy charges which can amount to almost to the same cost as 2 adults. So often I do it all independently, and find that way I'm usually only paying for what I need.

Been there done that brought the tshirt, travelled like this poster with my daughter and she has to pay the adult rate, also travelled as a single person and have good and bad single room supplements.

I personally find it takes a bit more research to see if there are any offers, for instance I have a trip to Prague booked, and it sounds daft but it was cheaper for me to book a double room with breakfast than a single room.

Unfortunately as others have said the hotel sells the room to the tour company as a twin occupancy, and that cost has to be paid.