How much do you spend each year on holidays?

[peachjuice]

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.

Curly im not moaning! Ffs

We own a piece of land and like to go camping there. It adds £100 to the mortgage each month so £1200 pa for that.
I like to go somewhere like Haven or Butlins once a year. Normally with extended family or friends. The beauty of this is the cost is per chalet/caravan rather than per person. So we just fill it right up. Accommodation for the last trip cost me £300. I didn't count the cost of "treats"
I also like to go to Horton Women's Holiday Centre a couple of times a year. It's womens only hostel accommodation and super friendly and fun. Costs me £100ish for myself and 2 kids for a weekend.

My DH doesn't particularly like holidays. Therefore we have a second home overseas which with some gites is run as a small business. Our holidays are almost self funding taking into account lettings.

Now dd is older we do a week of warm in February wjen DH and DS ski (same place every year) and a cpl of City breaks. (Maybe not now she is going to uni). Might go on a trip to the Holy Land with my church.

As a proportion of income a miniscule amount. I sometimes wish DH was interested in seeing the world.

@LEMtheoriginal

Most will be London based if earning £100k

I last worked 8 years ago (I didn’t return after my first.). I was 29 and in a junior analyst role, worked 9-5, mininal stress. I was on £50k plus £8k bonus. They was 8 years ago.

My ex, in financial services. Senior but certainly not exec level or even close and he’s on £150k plus last year £72k bonus

These are not surprising figures at all in the city

We're no where near the money the OP is bringing in, but I am in HR/arms dealing and DH is in an entry level role,both FT.

No childcare costs, only one small car,clothes are from primark and H&M means we can have nice holidays.

Fair play to those earning £100k+, wish it was me!

2k on average. That's about 10% of our joint salaries and we have 5 dc. This year we have been to Spain (air bnb), Florida (But accomadation was paid for) and we are going to france next month (we've paid £70 for the ferry, accommodation was paid with Clubcard points)

Household income £90+
DD18 has a job and pays for her own holidays and we mostly avoid school holidays now so it is cheaper.
We cruise once a year, couple of hotel breaks in the UK and abroad and one long haul. £5-6k ish.
We also have a holiday cottage we go to a lot which cost over £100k to buy, (paid for with inheritance and savings) but it's small so it's very cheap to run.

Wow I considered it splashing out by booking an £800 Cornwall holiday, not in the holidays, and took £600 spending money and we was self catering😩 but our income is only about £30k. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We make it work, we like our cheap and cheerful holidays :)

30K plus. About 5% of annual income.

@duckling84
I have to ask. How the heck do you manage on £20k a year with five children?

Most will be London based if earning £100k

Not true, two professionals could earn £100k plus jointly anywhere in the country if their jobs were portable.

It really isn't grim up north you know

And I missed... £70 ferry to France for 7 people. That’s incredible!

@theboxofdelights

Jointly yes.
I was saying those earning £100k plus. Should have clarified individually though.

I assumed jointly as the OP was talking about household income.

@theboxofdelights

Yes you were right to do so. I should have clarified. Most earning £100k plus will be London based.

OP, your dog costs you £5k per year? How?? That has to be a typo surely...

£1700 in household bills seems very high too. Have you looked at switching providers for TV, internet, phone, car insurance, etc?

I earn ~£110k, DH earns ~£60k (excluding bonuses). Neither of us works in London. We both have STEM degrees and PhDs (we met as PhD students). I have additional professional qualifications. We also have over 15 years of relevant professional experience (in other words we’re getting on a bit).

Harold do you think that higher earners walked straight out of Uni and onto that wage?
Most people know what it’s like to budget or not be able to do something for financial reasons as they have to work their way up to get the salary!

We have spent just shy of £3k this year but we will have had 3. Most years we just have the one.

We had 12 days AI in Menorca in June, term time. 4 days in an Air BnB over looking the sea in North Wales with DS2 and his girlfriend and we’re off to La Palma in 10 days for a week AI.

It’s just DH and I. We’ve just finished supporting DS2 at uni, we don’t have to go in school holidays, neither of us drink or smoke and we like holidays. I’m not well and don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to travel so we’re doing it now

Oh, and I think we spent about £8k on holidays this year. We typically spend between £5k and £10k in a year. That’s for 4 of us - we have 2 DC.

10-15k- I love holidays

I'm going to say 15k.
We have a campervan so every other weekend we are away from may to September (sometimes earlier and later, we've been known to camp in March until late October/ early November but we have a 9 month old)
This year we've gone skiing, South Africa, and a summer holiday which was in the Uk. Also about 4 European breaks (Norway was the most expensive) and a few long weekend in the Uk.
We're high income earners and priorities holidays.

We are doing up our vintage campervan at the end of this year which is costing 17k (gulp) so i think there will be a decrease of holidays next year...

With 2 students and 2 horses to support holidays have had to take a back seat this year. We spent about 1k visiting family and about 250€ on a 4 day camping trip.

Though I think my horses cost less than the Ops dog!

@Sakura7 the £1700 is for mortgage, council tax, utilities, house insurance, all groceries, cleaner, and dog walking costs are included in that too which I'd forgotten about.

Yes the dog really does cost us £5k a year bless him. We both work FT though so a lot of that is paying for a dog walker/sitter. Plus insurance, food, vets bills, odd toys, plus kennel fees if we go away for the night. He's bloody expensive when you write it all down I guess that's a big part of why I'm wondering why we can't seem to spare money in the budget for holidays 😂

I often wonder about this too.

We didn’t have a holiday for 10 years and then spent about £2k a couple of years ago and then about £3k this year. Both times we inherited a small amount of money.

Our household income in outer London is about £70k but there is literally nothing left over. I don’t know how people manage a £6k holiday every year, let alone upwards of that!