Me and Anna talked a little about the situation and just so it is written somewhere:
We are okay with the cost up to 30 euro per person, not more. Also, we are perfectly fine to live in some cheap hostel, spend time with you and go to sleep there if that's cheaper. So in that case we need to have a hostel somewhere near you guys (not more than 20 minutes on foot)
If that's not the case we are fine with sharing our room with anyone but obv. having our own bed.
Ah, this is really difficult constraint-balancing game :-P
Let's recognise that there's an implicit cost associated with finding somewhere big enough to host a meet-up where we eat and play mafia and other games together. If we stay in one big place, we're all sharing the cost, according to whatever payment breakdown we agree. If people start moving to sleep in budget places, they're implicitly leaving the "space" cost to those of us paying for an apartment, and we end up getting less common area to play with, probably for more money per person overall. I feel like it wouldn't be unreasonable for silver and Calamitas to prefer a hostel if you two make that move, too, and at that point, we'll have scuppered ourselves with regard to finding a decent social space for us all.
Remember that most airbnbs ban parties, so having 3-6 extra people over every evening might even break the terms. The alternative is to go out to cafes or pubs and socialise there, but that comes with the cost of buying enough food and drink not to get asked to leave.. at which point the 8 euro pppn mark-up on food and drink you might expect from dining out (e.g. paying 10 euros for a dinner we could have cooked for 2 euros) is probably more cost-effective in the accommodation pot :-P
Anyway, I have no problem spreading our meetup costs fairly, by which I mean people who can afford more paying more, but I'm much more comfortable doing that in an open way where we all stay together and some of us just pay more for the same space, because I think overall as a group, we'll gain more from economies of scale that way than if we just ignore the hidden aspects of the costs. I feel like I'm probably taking too many paragraphs to explain what seems like a simple point... there's probably some economicsy term for it!
I've been pretty focused on airbnbs so far, because I think of them as decent travel solutions that are cheaper than hotels. It may be that there are hostel-style places out there that might tick more boxes, though... Has anyone had a look through centralish hostels that offer cheap beds as well as private rooms, that have decent enough self-catering facilities and common areas that will accommodate mafia and board-gaming, and that we can bring a couple of outsiders into? (We've still got to bring faust and maybe Eevee into the equation, too...)
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