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What’s the most expensive holiday/vacation you have been on?

114 replies

TomLee475 · 12/08/2019 22:04

i think mine was back in 2011 in Greece for £800 for a week for 4 of us.

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user1471548941 · 13/08/2019 10:44

Have done the 2/3 weeks in California a couple of times and spent £6k for a couple.

Did a month down the East Coast USA as a teenager on a gap year for about £3k.

This year celebrating finally sorting a complex life situation out my lovely BF treated us to a week on Vancouver Island/in Vancouver driving around. Several good hotels and one completely amazing one. Then picked up a cruise and headed to Alaska for a week and it was the best week of my life! And he upgraded our flights on the way home!

I think flights/hotels/car hire/cruise/cruise excursions/spending money was £8k total.

Rivkka · 13/08/2019 10:46

Mine is about £5k to Kenya to Nairobi and mobassa on safari.

MIL has just booked Fiji and the Cook Islands for next year for her and FIL and it's cost them £30k. That's not a typo.

WhoKnewBeefStew · 13/08/2019 10:50

I went to sandals resort in St Lucia for two weeks, it was in 1997 and cost £1500 per person. I bet it would now cost over 5k each now

icelollycraving · 13/08/2019 10:53

About 20k for our wedding in Antigua, we paid for my family to come.

MT2017 · 13/08/2019 13:20

When I got married in 1999, the travel agent said we could do Bali for £500 each, or the Caribbean for £3k.

Luckily, Bali was lovely Smile

This year we are going to Turkey (5 of us), 2 weeks' AI for £6500.

We go next week - cannot wait Grin

Deeandwizzy · 13/08/2019 13:41

14k 2 weeks AI for 2 in Barbados with a butler and swim-up suite, earlier this year.

sqirrelfriends · 13/08/2019 17:30

About £10000 for two weeks in the Maldives. It was our honeymoon though and absolutely lovely.

fussychica · 13/08/2019 17:38

Probably a Disneyworld holiday staying at one of their own hotels. Had an amazing holiday, no idea of cost as it was years ago but we did it ourselves rather than a package and saved £££s.
Even further back in time island hopping in the Caribbean, including chartering a plane between 8 of us to get to Rawlins on St Kitts for lunch. Amazing.

Frith2013 · 13/08/2019 17:42

For these sort of prices, I’d expect my holiday to last a year!

AnnaMariaDreams · 13/08/2019 17:43

Probably Lapland for 3 nights with Canterbury travel. £6k for 3 nightsShock
My parents paid as my 40th present luckily.

3 weeks Sydney, Rock and Reef and 3 weeks Oberoi Lombok, Alila Bali and Raffles Singapore both came in around £6-7k (12/13 years ago). We paid for those.

Disney Florida was over £10k but that was 4 adults and a child with flight upgrades.

tierraJ · 13/08/2019 17:43

Probably one of my holidays to Mykonos

ineedanotherholiday · 13/08/2019 18:01

West coast US road trip, about £6k all in I think. Well worth it though!

pontiouspilates · 13/08/2019 18:36

£11k for a private safari in Kenya. Worth every penny.

Donnamarie2019 · 13/08/2019 18:39

Jamaica 2015 cost £9000 for 4 of us.

PenguinsRabbits · 13/08/2019 18:47

£11k for 4 of us to spend 3 weeks in Australia including scuba diving in Great Barrier Reef, staying with rescued tree kangaroos, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Daintree rainforest, saw possums, crocodiles, koalas, pademelon, cassowary, bettong, tree kangaroo, dolphins, whales in the wild etc. Loved it.

happypotamus · 13/08/2019 19:02

No idea how much it cost in total, but we went to New Zealand on honeymoon and tried to see as much as possible in 2 weeks so Auckland, Rotorua, Kaikoura, Christchurch and some in between places. Expensive flights, 11 nights in hotels (some nights in standard hotels, some in expensive luxury ones, a couple of nights visiting a friend), neither of us could drive so train/ coach travel between cities, flight back from Christchurch to Auckland, restaurants, whale watching and other attractions. It was not a very relaxing honeymoon but we had a fantastic time and would never otherwise have been able to justify the cost of going.

Ellabella989 · 13/08/2019 19:05

Road trip through Canadian Rockies (stopping off at different hotels every night for 2 weeks). Cost about 10k for the 4 of us including flights and eating out for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.
A week in Japan also cost me and my DP about 4K in total including direct flights and all spending £

kidsdoingmyheadin · 13/08/2019 19:10

approx 12k incl spending money approx 10 yrs ago. French Polynesia with a LA stopover. I saved money by booking it all myself.

Chickydoo · 13/08/2019 19:16

Usually we hire a villa somewhere
In the med. costs around 5-6k for 4 bed villa
Then flights around 2-3 k
Food, going out, car hire 2-3k
10-12k most years
This is for 6 or 7 people for 2 weeks.

FairyBunnyAgain · 13/08/2019 20:02

Holidays are my hobby and where a lot of my disposable income goes, our average cost when we were travelling with our 2DC would be £10 for 2 weeks flying ecomomy. Usually twice a year. Most expensive as a family was 4 weeks in NZ

Now we are usually only 2 and are going to different places and flying premium or business it can be £10 for just the 2 of us

CherryPavlova · 13/08/2019 20:12

I’d think either India with a luxury train tour and a safari in a luxury resort. No idea how much it cost.
Maybe though Hong Kong with Singapore.

GreekOddess · 13/08/2019 20:24

10 months backpacking on a rtw ticket in 1998 spent around £15k in total for the 2 of us.

3 weeks in Florida (Orlando and beach) last year for a family of 4. Spent around £8,500.

Zoflorabore · 13/08/2019 20:33

3 months in America when I was 20, I did Camp America in New York State and then travelled to some amazing places, my favourite being Niagara Falls. No idea how much it cost but it was all done on a shoestring.

I've never been back since :(

DameXanaduBramble · 13/08/2019 20:59

10k in July. Italy.

wizzler · 13/08/2019 21:03

Knight inlet in Canada. Worth it though