When’s your next break/ holiday coming up.?

[Travelfan1]

Off to Amsterdam soon. Just booked a weekend in Seville for January. Got an absolute bargain flight.
Where are you all off to next?

Australia at Easter. Looking to book France for August.

After a trip to the vets yesterday, my christmas break will now be spent in my own house.

Tenerife soon, Tobago in spring, Menorca in summer, New Zealand and Fiji next winter

Florida after Xmas, cannot bloody wait. I really need the break.

Florida, not till next summer though. Not that that is stopping me planning now

Krakow for the weekend in February. Ot was super cheap and I am really excited.

TravellingSpoon we’re off to Krakow in January

UK in 3 weeks.
Me, DD (13) and three of her friends. We’re going Christmas crazy with a side theme of Great Western Railway.
It’ll be stressful but worth it.
Then a 4-day family hotel break at Christmas so I don’t have to do all the work like last year (and every year before that).

Phuket next Saturday
Fuerteventura after Xmas
Nyc for valentines

calleigh that vets trip sounds difficult. Hope you manage a good Christmas.

Japan in January for me. I’ll be skiing and doing a mini city break in Tokyo. It can’t come quick enough. (I live in Australia so Japan is closer and cheaper than Alps or North America).

To be honest I can’t really afford it but sod it, life is too short not to holiday. It feels like all my money goes to my house at the moment.

We've both managed to book a week off in July and will find a caravan somewhere to take the kids who are at the age of just needing a pool, a beach and an ice cream.

Before that was 5 days in the lake District as our honeymoon in 2017

Before that was Germany in 2015

How do people afford all these holidays? Genuine question. Do you save and pay in full? Credit card it? Can you book and pay in installments? I never went on holidays as a kid and it's something I don't want mine to miss out on but I just don't understand how it all works! Whenever I've booked anything I've paid for it all up front.

I’ve done mixture of paying all upfront and credit card. Credit card gives various protections when booking so as long as paid off ASAP then that’s what I tend to do. I have in The past never regretted any travel cost-wise including one which I was paying off for a long time. My next holiday Cost is being increased by charity matched donation and flight carbon payment. Can’t justify flights or travel to certain human rights problem areas without. Fear my travelling will decrease In frequency but that seems ok.

@OrangeSwoosh we put money aside every month, it's saved up by the time we need to pay it off (book with deposit, pay off before we go) Florida is quite a stretch for us, we are setting more aside a month than our mortgage. We need to upsize so we've essentially prioritised holiday over house. When we upsize we will have less disposable income to set aside a month but I hope we could do long haul every 2 years, short haul in between that. We just really wanted to take the children to Florida while they are young enough to enjoy the magic (but old enough for rides!)

Haven’t ever booked holiday I could not afford to pay off ASAP or within reasonable time (save for one). Not sure I’d be able to relax knowing I’d overspent. Many hotel booking sites are ‘pay on departure’ so pre trip costs are often just travel.

Not exotic in the slightest but DH and I are leaving the dses and having a night in Bournemouth next weekend to go the the Christmas trail thing and just to enjoy a bit of the New Forest.

We did the same in the Isle of Wight last month, first time leaving 17 and 15 year old dses and it was fantastic. Can't wait to do it again.

We put money aside each month. We are lucky we get an annual bonus at work too so use that too

Hubby and I get to go to Tesco on it just after the 15th without the kids because MIL has said they can walk to her house from school instead of ours.

The following week we are going to Smyths and Next to Christmas shop.

#excited
#DateDay

I wish I was joking too. We don't get breaks and holidays.

Disneyland Paris in 26 days (surprising DS who has no idea) :)

@Travelfan1 who did you book your Seville flight through please?

I'm currently in the Philippines 😊 we're island hopping for our honeymoon.

Not got anything booked after this, I need something to look forward to so will probably try and book something in the new year.

Orangeswoosh I don’t have kids which helps

I do go without a fair bit to save up for my trips. Car is an old banger, haven’t bought new furniture in years (although buying some soon). I also don’t really drink so probably save a fair bit there.

There is also usually only one holiday ahead for me so I make it count.

Wish I could say none of it goes on the credit card to be paid off later but that isn’t true. My house is eating all my ‘holiday’ money at the moment

@bluetongue I can see how no kids would help! We have a pretty unextravagant lifestyle but I guess I can see how what we pay out in nursery fees each month would add up to a nice holiday or two a year!

I do have a savings plan through a salary sacrifice type thing which is set at £100 a month for 3 years so I was thinking that we could do less expensive (eg UK caravan/camping) holidays then have a big one every 3 years when the savings plan stops.

@OrangeSwoosh I should add we didn't really holiday when the kids were pre school aged, we had our first holiday abroad when they were 6 and 3 (when the free hours kicked in!) It wasnt affordable for us for a few reasons back then but largely due to childcare!

Just been to Italy over half term and for the first time in ages we have nothing booked!

Next time off work is Christmas holidays, but can't go away then as she has run out of holiday days.

We will go away somewhere in February half term but nothing yet booked. Keep looking over holiday sites but can't decide what or where we want other than warm.