To ask how much you spend on your holiday?

We don't have school age children so can go on holiday cheaper.

Spending depends on what we are doing each year and we are not high maintenance and generally book everything ourselves (ie no packages). Last year we had two breaks - 10 days in France (a city and then beach location) - which was about £2.5k for travel, accomodation and all spending money and then a long weekend in a UK seaside town which was £500 for travel, accomodation and spending money.

This year we went to Boston and NYC for 7 days in total - that was about £4k in total (flights, hotels and spending money). We don't often do long haul holidays. We will be doing a week in France later in the summer - probably about £1.5 - £2k for everything.

We have a fairly decent household income and pay for holidays from savings ring fenced for that purpose.

Gosh. I can only afford £3k as my expenses are so high. My take home is £6000k a month but I have high mortgage and bills and very little disposable income. Single mum of 3. Kids are all teens/pre teen so no “under 11 go free” anymore and the older two get charged full price.

I do a couple of UK budget hols eg caravan park.

Every other year go away with my partner in school term time without kids
Feel terrible I can’t afford to take kids on a proper holiday but taking myself in term time is £800, whereas paying for 3 kids and me in school holidays for something equivalent would be £5k at least.

This year I’ve had some unexpected bills and don’t even think I can afford the caravan holiday.

Income around 30k,holidays around 2k a year including spending, food, petrol etc. We have a touring caravan so can have a 2 week summer holiday for £500 plus spending

I know what you mean about seeing what other people spend!
We earn between us way over 6 figures. When the kids were small we spend around £5-7k on a fortnight in Spain for example.
Now they're older teenagers, it's around £11k as we can't get away with sofa beds anymore and need either two rooms or a two bedroom apartment.
I've loads of friends that earn much less and spend much more though. Guess it's about priorities 🤷‍♀️

I reckon this year we will spend about 14k because we are doing a couple of weekend trips with families & going to a show to do with my daughters hobby on too of our main annual hol.
Next year it will probably be around £8k

We usually try to do a Uk & a trip abroad each year but considering just doing one amazing trip to somewhere like the Caribbean at some point.

@sleepyscientist ah that's lovely, I'm quietly confident my son will be a clinger on for our holidays tbh, I know others say they lose interest but will be genuinely surprised if he does knowing his personality, so I'm hopeful we won't be limited to 17-18, but then it will likely be different when they're grown either way.

Yea, the whole 17/18 summers thing is bullshit designed to make people (women naturally) feel guilty.

Eh, how's it bullshit? It's just a perspective reminding us actually how little time we have children for, and you make it sound like it's thrown at us all the time, mine is 14 and I've not seen it worded like that before, it's hardly a stick that's been used to beat me with whilst parenting.

Yea, the whole 17/18 summers thing is bullshit designed to make people (women naturally) feel guilty.

there is no “17/18 summers thing”. That poster simply said how many holidays she had with her children (we only had about 17 summers together as a family
)

so it wasn’t a “whole thing”

it was her reality

Yea, the whole 17/18 summers thing is bullshit designed to make people (women naturally) feel guilty.

I can point you in the direction of my parents.....we 34 we are going away without my parents this summer for only the 4th time in our lives. We already have a cruise on the cards for February next year and looking at Caribbean for November next year. DS will also be doing a week somewhere with them this summer. My grandmother is 90 she came away with us all until 5 years ago and we still do weekends away with her.

Ooh good question my take home 45k a year .

I put £150 a month away towards holidays normal year so that's 4% much lower then other people but mostly just paying for me

£350 Easter break European city
£700 cottage in UK early july just before school holidays adult kids can come
£700 week ai in September somewhere cheap like morroco

This year we are going to new Zealand over Christmas to see my brother 😁 this is a once in a lifetime . Flights £1800 on there own and we haven't booked anything else year so that's completely blown the budget

Now im trying to work it out!

Caravan break £700
Week in York £700
Egypt for a week £900
So £2300

Household income is 75k. We have a 16m old through so no Point in mega holidays

Under that premise, your husband spends 50% of his income on holidays? 🤣🙈

we only had about 17 summers together as a family

That's so depressing (but true) put like that 😩

My son is 14 this year and I do feel this crushing pressure we only have a few years like this and trying to fit in all the things I want to show him/ do with him before he flies the nest!

Every 5years dh annd I have a 'special holiday', last time was a 2 centre one, Dubai and Maldives. But outside of that it's a holiday every other year, which costs about 5k in total. We earn 100k a year between us

@princesspadam i was on your other thread about your husband

you really should find out what he’s on

58k household take home pay. Holiday next month 3.5k. No additional weekends away this year as we’re paying down debt.

£400 for a holiday in the UK Monday to . Low earners

Our income is ~£80k and we probably spend around £4k a year on holidays.

@quietlifeneeded its baffling you say that you don’t share finances

but your husband pays for all the holidays

He wouldn’t say that you don’t share finances 😆

Whats a holiday! 😂

Single parent, earn approx. £23,000 gross before deductions but not including any UC top up. About 1% of my gross income.

My annual holiday is a few days in wales with my son & my friend. My friends parents own an apartment by the beach which they very kindly let us have for free and without such generosity a holiday would be out of reach. We car share to get there which works out around £30 each. We take our own food which probably costs around £25. We usually have one meal at a pub as a treat which costs around £40 with drinks. We’ll grab an ice-cream or two if the weather is nice £10-20. If we stop off somewhere on the way there or on the way home we might get a drink / ice-cream / light snack / pay entry to somewhere (we did Conwy Castle last time). We take our dogs with us and my mum looks after my cats so I have no pet care costs. In total I spend around £150-180.

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

Err…. There’s no way he could live on £23k minus £10k a year for holidays, without being subsidised by you (eg living with you, eating your food). Unless you both live with parents or something.

Btw 10k on holidays when you only earn 23k is insane.

We probably spend about £20K a year on holidays...maybe 15% of our income. DC are now finishing school or at Uni so the days of 2 adults and 2 kids summer holidays at coming to an end. I don't regret spending that sort of money at all - we only had about 17 summers together as a family and went on some amazing travels around the world. I definitely notice its a lot hard to travel for the same money now with COL and having 4 adults rather than small ones!

We don’t spend ridiculous amounts on the holiday itself, but when we are on holiday every day is yes day. I’d rather get a bargain break and not have to worry about spending when away than to have to say no to drinks, ice creams and day trips.

We normally book a holiday which costs 1-2months disposable income maximum.