To ask how much you spend on your holiday?

it appears a lot of people are not actually that squeezed.

You think because there is a thread on MN with 143 responses in a population of millions, on a thread specifically asking what you spend on holidays, that people are not actually "that squeezed" do you go to a hospital and assume every in the country is sick. It's a 3 year old's logic.

It’s interesting to know how many people go on regular holidays and how much is spent.
I realise I may be jumped on but as there have been so many threads about disabled people being a drain and having an easy lifestyle of handouts whilst hardworking families are being squeezed by the cost of living crisis I feel the need to comment that it appears a lot of people are not actually that squeezed.

Usually one week in the summer in this country, so less than £1000, which we pay monthly.

We have neighbours who have ten or so holidays a year. Usually long haul, for at least two weeks.

My dh and I earn 50-60k each ft we spend about 7k-8k on holidays a year that’s usually a week abroad and then a few mini uk breaks

this is representative of my experience

This is where I found Mumsnet very different from real life. Maybe it’s an age thing, as we all have big mortgages &/or childcare so despite healthy incomes spending even 10% of income is rare.

how does someone spend 20k on 60k?!

Single, no dependant kids.

2.5% of take-home in my budget this year. I don't earn a fortune so I do 3 different types of working holiday in the UK for free accomodation - that budget covers travel, some food costs, and spending money.

I'm trying to save up for a proper holiday later this year as I need a break from working full time then working when I'm on leave, but it cost so much more as a solo person, not sure if I'll get there, so not including that in my budget above.

Summer family Caribbean trip £22K, 7 of us we pay. Family ski trip Approx £9000 but adult sons chip in about £2000, two cruises just me and DH, total about £14,000. No mortgage about 25%. We are retired so having an enjoyable old age, and enjoying company of sons and grandchildren.

We're semi-retired so we have a household income of about £32k. We spend over a third of that on holidays -usually one long-haul, one sun holiday and a European break plus we go away at Christmas. Usually comes to about £12k pa

But we have paid off our mortgage and don't have any expensive hobbies etc. We run a pretty old car and we don't really buy stuff.

Next year I expect to spend around £9k plus spending money/food/some activities.

We would usually spend around £8k all in for a big holiday, a weekend abroad and a couple of UK weekends. But we haven’t done so since 2022.

This year we aren’t doing anything either, had to emergency buy a car, paid to get our stairs redone as they weren’t safe and I was pregnant and maternity pay is absolute shite.

We take home around £60k so around 15%

@Sendinsanity I was just being nosey, sounds wonderful! At least they've brought free Disney dining back now!

Oh I know, we could definitely do it a lot cheaper but we just go less often for longer. We usually go for 3.5 weeks, just over 2 weeks at one of the moderate disney hotels then a week at the hard rock or portofino. Discovery cove is our other unreasonable expense but loved treat when there too

Hahahaha. Myself, and indeed all my friends, still go on holidays with their adult children. Can't get rid of them! As they get older, you collect their partners too. These are kids in their mid to late twenties. They then also do extra solo trips with partners and friends, but the concept of the family holiday still persists.

Household income is just shy of £41K.

We don't really go on holiday but last year we went to Australia to attend a family wedding so turned it into a 2 week trip. We spent circa 10K for that and we are also having a few weekends away (not abroad), which will probably work out in total to about £4k. Most years it's around £6-7k for weekend trips though.

I think what we've learned from this thread is that most people are prone to exaggeration ;-)

My dh and I earn 50-60k each ft
we spend about 7k-8k on holidays a year that’s usually a week abroad and then a few mini uk breaks

@Sendinsanity where in Florida do you stay? Or do you do longer? That's a lot of money for only 3 people, even if Florida!

We rented a boat with crew in South of France, all the “kids” slept on it and we all stayed in a neighbouring hotel and were on the boat in the day. We treated all our extended family which explains the cost.. never again!

I'm a single parent and we are only a 3 person family which helps. We go on holiday every 3rd year and have a household income of around 60k. I spend about 20k on our holiday (we go to florida)

Sorry it’s just my opinion. During the summer I often too see videos ‘reminding’ me I only get 18 summers with my kids therefore making me feel guilty for having to work etc and not being able to just go to the beach or whatever every day. It’s great if it’s not your experience though!

Omg please tell us about the £90k holiday!! Where? How many people?

Yes- I’d rather go somewhere cheaper than be somewhere and not be able to fully enjoy it.

We have friends who go to Disney land every year- stay in the cheapest accommodation, take food with them, don’t buy treats in the parks or anything- horses for courses obviously, but we saved up and went once, stayed in a lovely place and did everything we wanted to without worrying about the money.

I think holidays are such a subjective thing- my best friend’s kids haven’t ever been on holiday because they struggle for money and she prioritises other things- the children are still happy.

Also, to be honest we spend a lot of money day to day- I don’t mean we are rich, we just have a takeaway, take the kids out, have beauty treatments, have people over for food etc and basically concentrate on having a good time as much as possible- so we probably don’t prioritise holidays as much as a lot of people.

Household income is £110k a year. This year, we have had our family holiday which was a week in Egypt at a 5* hotel, all inclusive for 2 adults and 1 child for £1500.

We normally try to keep it around that amount and look for deals but our child is starting school in September so I suppose it will have to increase but I dread paying so much for holidays when I know it is so much cheaper in terms of time.

We spend a lot as dh insists on taking our adult kids with partners. Most we've ever spent on one was 90k but that was for our joint 50th's taking everyone away. Depends what kind of trip it is- obvs a long wkend city break going to be less than a week's skiing. I guess it varies