What are your holiday plans this year?

[Bridgeofpies]

(And how much are you paying for it?)

Just read the thread about holiday traditions and now thinking about holidays! We haven’t got anything booked yet but now with 3 kids and trying to stick to school holidays (this is also new for us) it’s slim pickings! Everything seems crazy money and / or awful!

So, inspire me, allow me to live vicariously through your fabulous holiday plans or give me some tips!!

Off to Canada at the end of the month for snowboarding, mountain dining, ice canyon walks and dogsledding.

Totalled it up this afternoon as I lost track of the extras I have purchased, but its sitting at a pretty even 4k. This does not include spending money while there, which I anticipate could easily add on an extra 1k+.

Its our last blowout holiday before settling down to TTC, so I haven't really thought much about cost.

So far we've booked Slovenia for a couple of weeks in August. Doing a bit of a road trip. Flights, car hire & air bnb accommodation comes to around £2,300 for a family of 4 (one is under two though).

Really depends what you are looking for. We've found some very cheap deals on sites like Holliday pirates in the past.

Trying a villa with private pool this summer. First time sc so will have to see how much work I end up doing! Costing 3.5k for a week.

@Arkos I thought the same

DH gets two weeks a year as a farmer. However DD was born in last years week so we went to center parcs in January, loved it so much booked again for May.

Will have normal November week, may just stick with center parcs!

Just the 2 of us...so avoiding school holidays.
5 nights in NYC about £3000 for flights and hotel
10 nights in Greece...adult only hotel £5000
A few weekends away booked...Belfast, Wales...
Palma in September, Vienna in October. Yet to book.

A week in a holiday cottage in Keswick in July. £684 with hoseasons.

A cottage for a week in Norfolk with DH's parents and 4 of us over Easter £1200.

2 nights in May at a country hotel, DH and I and a good set of friends. Approx £800.

2 weeks in Denmark in August staying in two separate summer houses, one just the four of us, second one with extended family. Approx £2000.

Family of four, so far we have the following planned for this year.

Half term (next week)
We are going to Devon for 4 nights, fancy caravan with private hot tub £165.

May half term
We will be spending a week in Lincolnshire visiting a single friend with a large house. (Only cost is fuel, food and trips out)

Summer school holidays
Booked 2 weeks in Costa Almeria, Spain. Flights booked last September with BA. Three bedroom apartment with a terrace overlooking a shared pool, direct beach access. Car hire (Ford Focus) for the 2 weeks. Cost before spending money is £2300.

Tui package from our local regional airport, 1 week, 2 adults, 1 child (free place) A/I for £2200. We can only afford this holiday every other year.

Depending on the Flybe sale going through I'll book flights to take dd to her grandparents in Spain for October half term. They normally cover her flight and I pay for my own.

We've just booked for our family - including 2 teens. Not sure how many family holidays we'll have left as oldest is at uni, so this will be our most expensive holiday yet - and a one off. We'll be in a villa in Rhodes in July and it's just over £5,000.

We're going to Vietnam and Cambodia at Easter. (£££), camping at the hay festival for half term (cheap), summer, we have a week in a cottage near postscatho in Cornwall (2k), a few days at center parts and then a trip to Disneyworld at October half term.

We love our holidays!😀😀

I love reading holiday threads, so interesting and people's organisation is impressive.

We are too lazy to organise holidays! I suppose they're not that important to us or we'd be bothered to do it.
Usually if we go away it's very last minute. I never know where to go and get bogged down with reviews, I can put myself off a whole country because Dave from Grimsby didn't like the food/heat/pool/mattress.

Ideally I'd like cold places and city breaks but DC are all about the pool/beach. I can't bear hotels for longer than a couple of nights but don't want to cook and clean with self catering.

I'm going to Arran by myself for a week in April.

Then DH and I are going to the Alps in July. We've booked flights and a car (very cheap) but I haven't thought about where exactly we'll stay or accommodation yet, will do that nearer the time.

I have a long weekend in Seville with friends in July.

Then 11 nights at Disney World with the dss and a friend in August. I've rented a 4 bed villa for that through HomeAway and the advert keeps popping up over there >>> and fuelling the excitement levels

Early retirees own a holiday home in France.
January lodge long weekend lakes
Going on Friday to Paris got tickets for the rugby, then down to the house for two weeks.
2 weeks at the holiday home in April with a long weekend in northern Spain 3 hr drive fron our house.
May Corralejo in Canaries for 10 days
July Disneyland Paris with our children husbands and grandchildren then down to the house for a further 4 weeks last two with the mums and grandchildren while dads go back to work.
August looking at Italy again a may drive from house or get a flight from France
September Naples and around for 2 weeks
October a lodge in the lakes for long weekend with grandchildren
November Tenerife 2 weeks
December France 2 was with a long weekend in Paris for Christmas pmarket & shopping.
Appreciate we are fortunate to have a holiday home bought over 20 years ago when our children were young.
Cost lodge usually £300 flights book when released no more than £100 each ferry’s/eurotunnel book early ferry’s £300 ish return eurotunnel £150 return.
DP and I both worked full time in stressful carriers now we enjoy our holidays and enjoy our grandchildren on holiday.

We have one DS, age 6, so we're limited to school holiday time. But we haven't booked anything as yet, because I'm waiting for an operation so can't book until we know when that's going to be. So it'll probably end up being a last-minute booking to wherever has availability!

Nothing booked this year but when the kids were younger I would book ferry crossings on early bird deals then sort out hotels later, we went to all kinds of places by car. Ibis styles are a good hotel chain as they include breakfast and have family rooms.

I'm going to England for two weeks, a month after Brexit.

Although if it's all gone tits up I'm not going.

£38,000 , wow, just wow.

I couldn't ever justify spending that amount on a holiday. I think I'd feel under so much pressure to enjoy it, that I would spoil it.

Everyone to their own though, I do accept.

I could by my DC a house for not much more than that.

I think we'll go to a couple of toddler friendly theme parks in the U.K. possibly June time and then maybe North Carolina in October for a friends wedding. We're ttc number 2 just now so a long haul trip depends how that goes really.

Going to Sherwood forest for a 4 night mid week break with my Tesco Club card vouchers so only cost £29! Then in July going to Canada for 3 weeks to visit relatives. Flights bought as soon as they came out so cost under £1300 for the 4 of us. Just need car hire and spends so am budgeting about £3k
Also changing our caravan for a motorhome so looking forward to lots of weekend breaks in that.

10 days self catering for 6 of us in June think it cost just over £2k

Love reading everyone's different plans!

We had a weekend at Centre Parcs in January.

Just back from a weekend in Cambridge, just because.

Easter holidays off to New York and Gulf Coast of Florida, 2 weeks in total.

A weekend in Prague with friends in July.

2 weeks in Italy in August, 1 week in Umbria with a big group of friends with whom we holiday most summers, some time in Rome and Naples/Sorrento/Pompeii/Amalfi coast.

Hopefully a weekend at Champneys later in the year.

New York. Paid £280 return per person for flights. Quite impressed with that.

A few short European breaks - 1/2 nights each and each break costing somewhere between £150-300 per person for flights and hotel