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0 pointsalexey-salmin10mo ago0 comments

> I guess as a family be grateful that all hotel rooms come with a 50% (or more) discount per traveler?

This is not always the case. A two-bedroom hotel suite on average costs more than two standard rooms. This happens because the vast majority of rooms are twin/double and cheap hotels often don't offer suites at all.

At a given location two travellers would be chosing from e.g 100 options and at least some of these would be budget/discount offerings. In the same location a family of four would have to chose from 10 options and likely none of them are budget/discount.

Now consider that you HAVE to travel during the school holidays so competition for these damn 10 options increases and the price for both hotels and tickets easily goes up 2-3x.

There are some situations where a family of four would get a better price per person but most of the time it's the other way round.

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account429mo ago

That doesn't make sense - the family in your example has 110 options whereas the single traveler only has 100.

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0 pointsalexey-salmin10mo ago0 comments

> I guess as a family be grateful that all hotel rooms come with a 50% (or more) discount per traveler?

Now consider that you HAVE to travel during the school holidays so competition for these damn 10 options increases and the price for both hotels and tickets easily goes up 2-3x.

There are some situations where a family of four would get a better price per person but most of the time it's the other way round.