Would you tolerate DP spending £7k on World Cup trip?

and you mean the FIFA tickets themselves? The next and final lottery is December 11th but they will be highly sort after. FIFA ticketing is a mess and the majority will go through resale sites at ridiculous prices

how much you want to spend isn’t fixed and it doesn’t sound as if he wants to do it on a shoestring budget

it can easily add up to 4k and 2k for a midrange option

it could easily be far more for a luxury version

the minimum spend (not by the way including tickets) could be 4k the max spend properly has no upper limit

also we have no idea what airport he needs to travel from either

if he has said 4k for those but I would be shocked if he or the OP were lying

YANBU and he is a twat, if he is putting it all on a credit card. He can't afford it.

You will have to put all purchases on hold until he has paid off the debt and can pay his share again. You also need to be sure that this isn't the start of him getting into serious debt.

Do not let him spend your money, he needs to be accountable for his own actions.

Credit cards are very dangerous for people who live a lifestyle that they can't afford

exactly. much better to go now than when the child is 10.

And which $30 train?

Well unless he’s got £4k saved he’s still incurring debt.

The key information was missing in your post, and will absolutely skew the results. The fact he’s accruing debt at the expense of your family, costing you a years of family holidays and necessary home improvements, is completely unreasonable.

How much did he pay for them?

No they don’t add up if he is spending spending spending. Hotels include breakfast. Flights are £580 with BA on skyscanner.

so OP said £4k flights and hotels but it’s actually closer to £2.5k

Spending for 7 days if breakfast is included and it isn’t steak dinner - surely lunches are more fast food are 1k not 2k.

Tickets as part of the draw are a fraction of that price. Through ticket site yeah expensive.

Deoends how he wants to go and travel. Cost is 4k at most.

It's not even the cost of the tickets - which are notoriously expensive this time round because Fifa don't give a fuck about actual fans - it's being able to actually get one.

I see American fans on forums for the PL club I support not getting why you can't just fly to the UK and throw money at the secondary market to get a ticket for a game , and getting angry that there are things like season tickets and local sales when they see themselves as bigger fans for paying £10k every time they come and see their team and don't see why "local fans" should be prioritised. The way the US sells sports tickets means this is going to be a total clusterfuck and anything that's still available by the time he has the money is going to be multiple thousands.

Likely because he's factoring in the match tickets which will be very pricey.

so hes booked it woithout discussion and doesnt even have tickets yet

i would rethink this relationship

Really? I think he is underplaying yes the tickets should be cheaper but can you find one under £900 because I can’t.

Say it is 800 for flights (say1k for parking) and British Airways with luggage is 1500 cheapest

then spends - this will be a drinking holiday no doubt so 200 a day for 3 meals and drinks in Boston doesn’t go far

then the cheapest hotel for booking.com for those dates is 1800 each and that is the cheapest I can quite well imagine mid range is 3k

her figures do add up

his ticket figures don’t and neither do yours

The birthday isn’t an issue-he’s 2. He can have a moved birthday or multiple birthdays.

He is being unreasonable

My DP loves football. Always applies for tickets , has been to several Euro and World Cup events but even he thinks the America world cup is out of reach

OP you are hugely exaggerating the figures. No way it costs 4k for flights and a hotel for that long. 2k spending money for the week - again hugely exaggerated. Tickets aren’t that much. You want to be annoyed and that’s fine but at least be realistic about the costs.

Currently flights to Boston over that time going Saturday to Saturday are £600-£800.

But the tickets haven’t even been released yet have they? Has he at least made sure it’s fully refundable if he doesn’t get a ticket?

Edit: I just looked and saw they’ve been released but scotlands first game is over £1000 a ticket!

He is really stupid for not buying the match tickets alongside the flights and accommodation.

Yikes. What if he doesn't get the tickets?

He may not have costed food or travel insurance (essential including health cover) in properly either.

@Rigaboni did he book these things before even checking with you about childcare, never mind anything else re finances, savings etc

Tickets are selling quickly so unless he books soon he won’t be going.

And spent how much?
Has he bought tickets yet or will he be one of those sad people holding up a cardboard sign asking for tickets

I have to say this would cross a boundary for me and be a real deal breaker - and I like football went to last years Euros and will plan on going to the 2028 ones as well

@Rigaboni he has looked up where the ground is hasn’t he and a plan to get there

Thing is he can’t afford it. With his income, and given compounding interest, it sounds like it will take him at least five years to
pay it off - at least five years of no family holidays, no necessary home improvements being done, no savings, no money for emergencies etc. That’s not ok.

And I’d imagine he’d be delighted if England were knocked out given that he’s Scottish!

Does he ever go to see Scotland play normally?

Jesus this guy sounds like a liability, sorry OP.