Deposit and minimum term

A deposit is money held, not money spent — you get it back at the end. Calculators that fold it into a single total make a stay look several hundred euros dearer than it is, and do so against a competing offer that never mentioned it. So two figures stand side by side here: what you need available on moving in, and what the stay actually costs. And because leaving early is almost never costed in advance: what a minimum term is worth if you do not reach it.