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To ask how much you spend on your holiday?

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grassseed · 04/05/2024 18:47

How much do you spend a year on your holiday and how much is this as a percentage of your income?

E.g. do you earn £30,000 as take home pay and spend £1000 a year (3% of your take home pay).

I'm just wondering as I earn an above average amount, but when I'm on holiday I feel like I'm scrimping compared to the other people I see holidaying and I'm wondering if these are the super rich or if people spend a much larger proportion of their take home pay on holidays

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sleepyscientist · 04/05/2024 19:32

3-6% maybe on average. That's a standard 2 weeks 5* all inclusive for 2 adults and DS one year then a cruise or the Caribbean the next year. We also have about 10% that we spend on family time so things like weekend breaks or theme park trips.

We need to get better at treating ourselves to big things and not wasting money on the little things

BrendaSmall · 04/05/2024 19:26

Dread th think what percentage of wages we spend on holidays 🤣
3/4 times a year we go abroad each holiday around £3500 , husband goes away on his own and that’s around £2000,
He earns around £33k I earn around £18k
i only pay 1 bill a month everything else comes out of his wages, I pay for 1 holiday a year

ohmydays37 · 04/05/2024 19:22

Take home total £85k.

Family holiday with adult kids (only just) £6k and £4k on 2/3 trips just dh and me.

longdistanceclaraclara · 04/05/2024 19:21

20% ish of take home

quietlifeneeded · 04/05/2024 19:14

You have to remember all that glitters is not gold! those people who appear to be throwing money all over the place.. think about where that money might have come from..

did they save all year, have they been saving for years for this once in a lifetime holiday? have the put it all on credit cards, have they taken out loans?

my answer was very glib.. my husband has a private income and thats what we use for our holidays.. we spend about 10k a year, usually 3 or 4 cruises a year. his cruise attire is entirely 2nd hand!

Trickabrick · 04/05/2024 19:12

Around 10%, had never actually thought about it before.

AhBiscuits · 04/05/2024 19:10

It varies a lot from year to year so difficult to give a figure. Maybe about 5%

NevergonnagiveHughup · 04/05/2024 19:10

20% of take home pay.

cakecoffeecakecoffee · 04/05/2024 19:09

I’d say about 4% ish? 4k.

A big family holiday every couple of years which would be about 2.5%. Then DH and I each have a break alone which is a few hundred each. Then a few short UK breaks with the kids.

Ponoka7 · 04/05/2024 19:05

I'm away next week, the whole holiday, with spends will cost a month and half income, at least, just for me. My DD's away with her two children, she'll spend around two and a half months income on it. Then another month's income on a city break with her eldest. That's about average for the people we know.

takealettermsjones · 04/05/2024 19:05

Between 10 and 15% of take home pay. When I'm done with paying childcare, that will go up. Love going on holiday.

TipsyKoala · 04/05/2024 19:05

Take home household annual pay about £45k and we spend about 10% of that on holidays, some years more, some less.

quietlifeneeded · 04/05/2024 19:04

loverofalmonds · 04/05/2024 19:02

well yes actually

you do pay for them when you think about it

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nope.... we dont share finances

loverofalmonds · 04/05/2024 19:02

quietlifeneeded · 04/05/2024 19:02

i dont pay for holidays... hubby does... about 10k a year... he earns about 23k, i earn about 23k

well yes actually

you do pay for them when you think about it

quietlifeneeded · 04/05/2024 19:02

i dont pay for holidays... hubby does... about 10k a year... he earns about 23k, i earn about 23k

notzoe · 04/05/2024 19:00

Around/over 10%

Always too much

Beezknees · 04/05/2024 19:00

Household income after tax is £30k (I am a single parent with one child).

Probably spend around £5-£6k a year on holidays, so around 15-20% of total income. My rent and bills are low though so while I am not wealthy, I can afford this amount in proportion to my salary vs outgoings. I don't own a car, don't have to pay for childcare as DS is old enough not to need it, and we live in social housing so my rent is cheap.

As there are only 2 of us, this gets us 2 holidays a year plus some weekends away. Usually do one long haul and one short haul. Next year we are going to Greece in May, which is costing under £2k and then Bali in summer.

loverofalmonds · 04/05/2024 18:59

single parent
2 children
£70k income
£8k in total including weekends away

somethingisnotquiteright · 04/05/2024 18:51

Household income circa £100k
Holiday budget around 10% which will cover a family holiday and maybe 3/4 weekends away.