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.

I feel like I've stepped into a parralell universe. I thought we were making an average income but clearly the UK average income according to MN is between 90 and 150k 😂 I am definitely losing at life!

Ah but one can invent...that's the beauty of t'internet.

Income about ten million, that's in a bad year...
Holidays - about 500k annually. Again, that's just the small stuff

I feel like I've stepped into a parralell universe. I thought we were making an average income but clearly the UK average income according to MN is between 90 and 150k 😂 I am definitely losing at life!

Ah but one can invent...that's the beauty of t'internet.

I don't think people do make it up. Lots of people earn lots of money and the people with high household incomes are more likely to have the free time/manage their own work and so can potentially spend more time on MN. I work for myself. I can MN all day if I chose to. When I was earning a fraction of what I now earn I worked for someone else and didn't have that ability.

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.

I agree @Carstuff

This year we'll have spent close to 12k.. that's not usual though, every 2 years we do Florida - which is where we go in November and we also went to Rome at the beginning of the year. Household income is 75k pre tax but didn't have a child until this year so had money to spare.

Holidays will be a lot less expensive going forward!

I don't think people do make it up. Lots of people earn lots of money and the people with high household incomes are more likely to have the free time/manage their own work and so can potentially spend more time on MN. I work for myself. I can MN all day if I chose to. When I was earning a fraction of what I now earn I worked for someone else and didn't have that ability.

I didn't say anything about having time to spend on MN? My point was people can invent what they like on the Internet. And they do, why not

People can lie about their income outside of MN as well. I suspect the majority tell the truth online though.

About £500 on 2 caravan holidays including spending money. Had a great time and visited lots of places.

Just me and DP, household income around £70k, probably around £3k a year

Linkylink it was a mixture of very hard work and luck as these things usually are! Dh started a business with a friend in their spare time then was able to do that business fulltime. After a year or so one of the companies they contracted for offered them full time jobs at 40k and i begged dh to take it as self employment had been very stressful. He did and worked very hard for the next 6 or 7 years (pretty much all the time) and was promoted all the way to the top. He moved to a new job this year at a 6 figure sum (he made a good name for himself and networked a lot over the years so jobs were easy to find). I just work part time which tops our money up but he's the main breadwinner. He has no qualifications or anything he is just the type if person who becomes obsessed with being the best at everything!

Elon Musk is offering trips to the moon for those who don't know what to do with their money.

Probably about £4300 this year including spending money. £2300 on a Disneyland Paris trip, £700 on weekends away with friends, plus 5 UK breaks in caravans / cheap hotels but with theme park trips etc. 2 adults, 3 kids, all in school holiday period. It's around 13% of our gross income and worth every penny.

How long is a piece of string? The term "holiday" covers all sorts of things. We don't have much money but go away a lot but on a budget - to youth hostels, cheap air bnbs etc. We went to Nice on a budget airline earlier this year - flights about £100 each return, plus a train for 16 euros and accommodation in an airbnb was 50 euros a night for a week.

Lol the posters who write 'earnings £140k not loads but comfortable'. What world do you live in? Household income of 38k and about £400 on 2 caravan holidays, obviously I'm a pauper though.

@ScrumpyCrack

When we spent £13k 3 years ago on one holiday it consisted of

2 adults 2 children economy flights to Greece

9 nights half board in interconnecting rooms at Sani (google, it’s incredible. 4 hotels on site and we stayed in the “cheapest”)

4 nights in the mountains in a basic but lovely B&b

That was August

Sani was £6.5k
B&b was £450
Flights were £1200
Spending money inc car hire for four days and transfer £5k

Zero. 34 and not been abroad since I was 13

Zero here too. Last time I went on holiday abroad was 5 years ago. We tend to just have days out when we take annual leave. Most spare cash is spent on the house. It's fine with me

Live abraid, our main holiday is going back to the UK for three weeks at Christmas.

So far:
Flights :$3000 (around £1700)
Holiday cottage for two weeks :£1200

Weekend trip to Dublin for me and DH : £600

Hopefully we won't spend too much whilst we're there : we'll cook and at the cottage and do low budget stuff like parks and visiting castles etc with a picnic. Christmas eve, day and NYE at my mums.

Abroad, obviously

@ScrumpyCrack we spent £40k on holidays before we had kids. This usually consisted of:

10 days over Christmas/new year usually in the Dominican Republic.

Then a 2 week holiday in August time, usually long haul.

Then two other short haul 5 or 7 day trips to somewhere in Europe

Plus several weekends away/city breaks throughout the year. If two of our trips weren't in school holidays then it would be considerably cheaper.

Since we have had kids we have cut back massively though.

@lexi727

You say that since having kids you have had to cut down dramatically from £40k to £30k.

You say your income is £550k

I remember you from a thread last week. You have a 2 year old and a newborn.

Genuine question. Why have you had to cut down on such a huge huge income?m
And on that kind of income, I’m intrigued that you see a drop of £40k to £30k as “dramatically” dropping. It’s £10k. Truly a drop on the ocean in a £550k income.

I say this from the perspective of someone pre divorce who’s partner was on £150k plus £70k bonus, so I do have some grasp of the realisties of a high income family. However your income takes you to an incredibly high bracket.

Okay. It’s an obnoxious number, and it’s an obnoxious dollar sum.

We spend $120k per year on three vacations, two to the Caribbean and one to UK/Europe (I’m an ex-pat). We stay at Aman, One & Only, Four Seasons etc., and include extended family, so end up renting a villa at one of these hotels, which is where it adds up. We rarely fly first class or even business to our destination.

Our household income is several million dollars per year.

The reverse snobbery on MN is always interesting.

“I have an income of £150k and spend £10k on holidays” = you’re making that up. Don’t you know the median wage???? Haven’t you heard of hostels?

“I have an income of £20k and spend £4k on holidays” = perfectably acceptable, you obviously live for your holidays, drive an old banger, prioritise holidays, and cut back in other areas.

@Lostandfound81 it's not a dramatic cut, is less because we don't go on long haul anymore because DS would be a nightmare on the plane. Short haul flights are considerably cheaper. Haven't gone on holiday with DD yet. Our income is high because DH is CFO and we own properties that we rent out, plus some other investments. Is that okay for you?