How much do you spend each year on holidays?

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We're pricing up for next year, haven't been since 2015 as we "can't afford" it, yet our household income is ok - about £90k gross. There never seems to be spare money though.

Curious to know how much other people spend on their holidays each year as a proportion of their income.

Probably not the sort of holiday you are talking about....😆

I spent 600 last year in a new tent. The first one i have owned from new as my previous one was been given to me as friends traded up.

So, i will spent whatever petrol and pitch fees are at the time.

I'm interested in all - do you camp overseas or stay in the UK?

We spend around 7/8k a year on holidays. Household income 105k.

15-16k this year. Household income 140k

£5k ish a year. 2 main holidays and a few weekends in Europe/UK. This is about 25% of my yearly income.

I am a single parent of one 5yo DC.

I get a lot of "how can you afford that" comments. The answer is simply that I have very low outgoings. No childcare costs, no car as I don't need one, no transport costs (my work/school/the shops are all walking distance), bills are low (my water bill for example is £12 a month) and being a single parent I don't have much of a social life!

A lot of people I know have more money than me but less disposable income as they have bigger outgoings - bigger houses, cars, pets, more children. With just me and one DS at home we just don't spend a lot.

It varies. This year we are going on a 6k holiday to Florida but my parents paid for that. They also paid for three other breaks in this country this year too.
Next year it’s a big birthday so will probably spend 2k going away as a family then another 1k away with friends.

Between £5k and £10k I would say. Household income of £100ish. We have alot of outgoings though and overpay our mortgage. Ideally I would spend more as I love holidays and enjoy a bit of luxury 😊

100k income, around 5-7k on holidays.

Usually one main one and then a couple of mini ones. The spending money is what really makes it add up. My parents paid for a house for us all to stay in recently for a few days and we still ended up spending £600. We didn't even do much tbh.

Holidays are luxuries, but a 90k income on paper should be healthy enough for you to have at least one annual holiday. Obviously depends what you're choosing to spend your money on though.

Between about £3-5k. That would be a family holiday abroad for £3-4K - 2 adults and 2 teenagers, then a few (maybe 3 or 4) weekend trips (city breaks and a sun holiday that we do with friends each year).
Household income is around £70k, we do spend very freely the rest of the time too though.
We have low outgoings though, no childcare, company car, mortgage only about 10% of income.

I agree newdirection on the spending money. My parents took us away this year to LA, they paid for accommodation and flights, we paid for night in the hotel before, airport parking and spending money (for 4 of us) and it came to almost £3000 for 2 weeks!

These threads typically attract posts at the higher end of the income spectrum. I feel I should post our figures for balance.

About £800 this year two uk camping hols.

I'm hoping we can increase our budget for next year.

£110,000 income , holidays abroad and U.K. 12-15,000

We spend about £12k a year on short breaks and holidays for 2 of us. Income about £60k

42K last year, 2 adults 2 kids. Someone will no doubt moan at me.

Probably £5-7k all in on average but that includes free BC flights as we use air miles to get them. Both 31 and travel is a big priority to us.

That's maybe reduced slightly since we had kids (twins) as didn't go away for the first six months as it took us a long time to adapt to our new life!

Household income £135k so not enormous but very comfortable (London/south east).

We don’t bother every year, but our honeymoon was 15k. Some years it’s a week in Portugal etc. for 1k, this year is 8k for the Maldives.
Household income 65k

Fuck me you lot are rich.. I spent £0, I haven't had a holiday for 6years now but I content myself with seeing friends and going to galleries & museums etc. I can't imagine dropping 5k on a holiday.

Oh maybe £4k

£1000 on caravan/camper upgrades
£1000 on festival tickets (three festivals
£500 on campsites

And the rest on spends.

Similar income and about £5k on a summer holiday (wouldn't say it's luxury - this year was 10 nights in a 4* hotel - room only - on a Greek island). We have been going skiing every other year which is about £2.5k. A couple of cheap weekend away with groups of friends, say £500, then maybe a wedding or two which we make into another weekend away.

So, on average about £7k a year.

Everyone's spend will be different depending on the size of family and whether they go in school hols.

I've also prices up next year and would also like a bit more luxury, but at say £10-12k, which would mean us saving £1k a month just for holidays, we can't afford that.

Between £5k and £10k per year

We do a range of holidays - camping and don't buy much just food - so very reasonable ( few hundred for 4 of us). When we go abroad it's usually Asia (it's usually chosen by me and kids, DP happy with whatever I organise) and then it can get expensive. Most expensive was 3 weeks in Japan at 12k.

I think if you book a package it can get expensive. Personally we get money off with Avios, mix of cheap vs luxury accommodation on holiday, we aren't big shoppers anyway, often take local transport, we don't drink alcohol much (maybe DP has 1 bottle of beer every 3 or so nights), food is a mix of cheap with maybe 1 or 2 expensive meals in there. Happy thoughts! Love holidays!

Around 12k give or take.
One abroad for 2 weeks, usually one abroad for one week during October half term and then three other uk holidays spread throughout the year. And then dp and I go off with out each other on some European city breaks.
Income around 110k.

I think we just spend money on the things that matter to us. So people like spending money on their home or car, some like expensive clothes or accessories, some like big nights out and entertaining and some like to have 1 or 2 really good holidays every year.
If its something that matters to you you'll make sure you have the money for it.
We really like our holidays, we work hard and its time we spend together away from the pressure of everyday life.
We'll have 1 or 2 hoildays plus long weekends every year and spend ave £10,000 Our income is around £100,000

Including spends I spent about £250 on our summer holiday. We have a night at a travelogue and tickets to an event in November too.

Everyone thinks they need every penny they earn, whether they're providing for a family of 8 on £16k or a family of 3 on £120k. People spend according to their means and get used to it. It rarely means they actually need to be spending as much as they do. The extra expenses that come with higher earnings (perhaps higher transport costs or more flexible/ more hours of childcare, though not always) don't usually need to run into the tens of thousands more than someone on a lower income spends.

You undoubtedly could afford holidays on your income if you looked honestly at your spending and cut back on various things.

We spend about 2-3k all in twice per year and also have a few shorter breaks. We do all sorts of holidays but have been to France and Ireland as a family this year, neither holidays were camping though we used to do Eurocamp type mobile home holidays a lot when the kids were smaller. Now we mix self catering, hotels and hostels. Parts of the family have done short breaks to London, Paris, Croatia and a camping trip an hour from home. Probably about 7k on all of those put together.

We live in an expensive area, we're a family of 5, we have a comfortable family income but quite a bit less than you.