How much do I charge?? Please Advise!!

[keggero]

I have a 2BR Standard View at Kidani for 5 nights in November and we are bringing another family of 4 with us. My wife's friend asked her yesterday how much for them to stay the 5 nights. Is $75 a night too much? I was planning on using this money to buy my tickets to the parks. Your info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[mikmin]

Heaven's no that is not alot to charge for a family of 4 to stay with you. Just think that a room like that would cost them quite a bit more if they had to pay on there own through Disney. I think you are great friends to only charge them $75.00 a night. Enjoy your trip.

BWV 1-bedroom BW view Nov. 29th to dec. 10th.

 

[DVCconvert]

One approach you could use to figure this is to see how many more points it is for the 2 bdrm over a 1 bdrm for the lenght of their stay - then multiply the number of points by $ 5.00 +/- to reflect your MF's on the points used to help them out - just a thought

 

[jodifla]

I have a 2BR Standard View at Kidani for 5 nights in November and we are bringing another family of 4 with us. My wife's friend asked her yesterday how much for them to stay the 5 nights. Is $75 a night too much? I was planning on using this money to buy my tickets to the parks. Your info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

we bring people all the time, but never charge. Folks normally buy us a nice dinner and help with the groceries.

 

[AnnaS]

Did you invite your friends to join you? Or did they invite themselves? Was this discussed before the plans were made? It really depends on you and your friendship with them. Do you want to charge them? Of course it's all up to you. If you are going to charge, then I would use the formula DVC Convert laid out.

We have also invited family and friends - never charged.

Have a great time regardless!

 

[Sandisw]

Since this wasn't discussed before hand, one option is to simply tell them to give you what they feel is fair. If it is more than you are expecting, then you can either give some back or use it for something special on the trip that includes them.

At least, if they set the price, there can't be hard feelings. We are bringing family this year and won't accept money for the room but did tell them they are on their own for the rest.

I know they are planning on covering one of our dinners, but since we did the inviting, we just feel more comfortable this way.

Have a great time!

 

[OKW Lover]

Charge them the same that you would if they were staying in your house.

 

[marynvince]

Charge them the same that you would if they were staying in your house.

Best answer I've seen in a long time. Thank you for the smile!

 

[Donna M]

Your idea or DVCconvert's idea are good ones.

If your budget calls for some compensation from your guests then I would ask for whatever you think is good. Many people are in a position to treat guests and that's great but don't feel that you have to treat them too. If you decide on $75 a day, they are getting a great deal.

Some things you might consider is whether they would get a regular room someplace else and pay close to that, what their finances are, and were they planning on paying you when the discussion came up about staying together.

 

[Mini Sorcerer's Mom]

When we have brought friends they have payed for the meal plan. They still pay a lot less than had they booked a room at WDW plus it saves us having to buy food.

 

[Dean]

The different response illustrate 2 issues. One that we do not know the nuances of your relationship or how this trip came to be arranged. The other, that we are all different in how we look at it and what we can simply afford to do. We've done MANY family trips over the past 13 years to DVC and other timeshares, we cover the accommodations and invite people, I am appreciative if they ask to pay but would be upset with them if they truly insisted. But I also don't involve them in the planning process unless I have a simple preference question to ask anyone. I plan the trip, decide who to invite, etc. I generally require we go out to dinner as a group, that's it. We've had as many as four 2 BR units ocean front on HH, nine 1 & 2 BR DVC units, nine 2 & 3 BR units in Gatlinburg and upcoming, seven 2 BR units in Nashville.

From a financia point of view, the difference in points between what you would have spend and what you did multiplied by a fair rental factor of $8-10 a point is about as neutral as you'll get for points that were not distressed otherwise.

One word of caution is that many have the impression that timeshares are free once you buy them. Therefore, what you and I would consider a cheap price, someone else might think you were trying to rip them off and react accordingly. Tread lightly for any charges.

 

[Kidanifan08]

I agree with DVCconvert -- MF per point is totally reasonable and, based on when you are going, is probably close to $75/night to cover half the points. We took some really good friends who we have known for 20 year to Kidani last year. We stayed in a 2BR standard in December and, out of the blue, they gave us considerably more than that. We never asked for any payment, so we paid them back by covering some of the table service ADR's that week. They ended up buying at BLT and we got the referral fee! We are all very good friends and things even out with us over time.

If your friends asked what they can give you, covering the maintenance fee is something very concrete that is easy to understand. They would never get that kind of accommodation for that price.

Have a great time!!

 

[rentayenta]

we bring people all the time, but never charge. Folks normally buy us a nice dinner and help with the groceries.

That's what we did when our friends treated us prior to us buying. We also paid for the their hotel room for the first night. We "paid them back", which they didn't expect or ask for, with a trip to the GCV with us.

 

[sweetdana]

I think it depends on the party. I think if you are looking for help, you should ask. If you make twice as much as them, or you think they cannot afford it, or you think this will put a damper in the relationship runnnnn... otherwise..


At 14 points a night that is 126$ IE if the rented of the trade board for 9$ a point. (for just the studio portion of the ressie.)

1 night in a studio from Disney would be over 500$ a night with taxes ect.

Your MF are about 84 a night on just the studio points. (assuming 14 points)
(est at 6$) so less than that you are still paying them to stay there.

Your 75$ IMO is not unreasonable at all; depending on your financ. situation; but I do not know what your friend/ or you can afford.

In general I think it is generous. .. and if you ever need someone to take the studio side of a 2 bed ressie lemme know..

 

[SamSam]

We have had friends vacation with us and we had 3 studios, so we could all have privacy and we charged $5 a point. They were more than happy with that. I've also supplied the rooms without charge for various family member, it all depends on the circumstances. It is always discussed up front to make sure that all are comfortable with the arrangement.

 

[oh_coconuts]

Don't forget that whatever you charge your guests you will have to claim as rental income.

 

[DVCconvert]

Don't forget that whatever you charge your guests you will have to claim as rental income.

I'm sure that happens all the time!



{I don't believe the OP is a serial renter}

 

[dianeschlicht]

Charge them the same that you would if they were staying in your house.

That's what we do too! We invited, so we don't charge. We do, however, accept a nice dinner out as a "thank you" gift.

 

[VrBchJ]

When you made your initial plans what arrangements did you discuss?

 

[keggero]

Here's how it went down. We told them we were going over the kids fall break. They said they'd like to go as well. I told them we had a 2BR reserved at Kidani and that they could stay with us if they wanted. Then yesterday my wife got a call from her friend and she asked how much we wanted for them to stay with us. My wife said she'd talk to me and get back to her. I told my wife to tell her that whatever she thought was fair was fine. Haven't heard back from her yet.