UK breaks are so expensive!

[Bridecilla]

So we've sacked off the 2 weeks in Turkey and I've been looking for something here but the prices for self catering are ££££

Even camping is £££. Thought a cottage or lodge with a hot tub would be an idea but most are sold out or £1500 + for a week

Am I missing any gems to search? Ideally Yorkshire or just below - travelling from Newcastle for a week between now and mid August

I've trawled Hoseasons, Airbnb

We were looking at holidays in the uk a few weeks ago but they were so expensive!

So instead we booked flights for the 4 of us to western France for £250 in TOTAL and an Airbnb with a pool. That came out far cheaper than 10 days in a comparable place in the uk.

I always look on holidaylettings.co.uk. Would normally spend around £800 per week high season

Never booked one with hot tub though
Imagine they'd be gross at the best of times

@ivykaty44

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YHA private suite at Conkers are under £300 for 3 or 4 people in August for a week, you obviously share the kitchen but thats sociable, means its between bed and breakfast and self catering

Most YHA hostels, including YHA National Forest have closed their lounges, self catering kitchens, laundry facilities and any other communal spaces. So all you would get is your private rooms. I belong to a group which goes to YHA hostels throughout the year but this year are booking Premier Inns and Haven Caravan Parks instead.

Go inland a bit - always a premium if you can walk or have a short drive to the beach. Hot tubs will always be at a premium. Scotland usually cheaper than England and their kids go back in mid August, so worth looking for later in August up there. Norfolk and Cornwall are very expensive.

I booked pre lockdown but have a lodge with hot tub for 6 and inland and it was a grand. We couldn’t go abroad for that in the summer peak period, especially as 2 kids would be adult prices now.

I’m sure if I went off peak and had an apartment rather than a villa etc, I could go cheaper. But not peak periods.

Maybe it's because it's for next summer @TinyMetalBirds and because you're specifiying Greece or France? If you look at July or August 2020 and leave the destination blank so it gets the cheapest deals everywhere you can get family of four in two rooms for 7 nights for well under £500 pp with LoveHolidays.

I will have a look @zafferana - but if I do go abroad I think I would prefer Greece or France! So the cheapness lies in the particular destination I suppose.

The more selective you are @TinyMetalBirds, the more expensive it is. If you want the super cheap deals you need to cast your net wide and not be to picky about country or resort.

Aren't they just? And I bitterly resent it tbh. I hate holidaying in this country, it makes me miserable. The least it could do is the decency to be dramatically cheaper than going abroad - where there is sunshine and warm seas and friendly people and good food....

UK holiday prices might be extortionate this year, but the prices have been OTT for ages

Let's just hope property owners enjoy it while it lasts, because those who usually go abroad certainly won't be tempted back next year, and even some of the regulars may desert them

I know about 3 families who were staying in the UK however the prices here have made them all reconsider & then are now going abroad.

The costs for owners here are a lot higher than in Turkey.

Wages are very low there, and that is a huge factor.

Property is much cheaper too. Many UK cottage owners will have big mortgages.

I run holiday cottages, and some weeks people use £30 a day in electricity!!! In the winter I often end up making just £50 on a weeks holiday

I’m going camping in Cornwall for 10 nights, site is by the beach, had to buy a tent and equipment, which I’ll probably sell when we get back but it’s cost less than £300 for the whole trip. My cheapest ever holiday.

Usually I rent a UK cottage in the summer and a overseas holiday somewhere warm in October however wage reduction has changed that.

I did book the site in May and figured if I lost the money it was only £12 per night. The day Boris announced the opening of camping sites it was fully booked by lunchtime.

I did notice the tent I bought in June, which wasn’t in the sale, shot up in price by 30% the day it was announced campsites could open.

Not a cottage but just booked a room for £70 a night including breakfast, they had family rooms at £90 and a 2 bed apartment for £120. Lake District above a pub

@Puzzledandpissedoff 'lets hope people go bancrupt'. Nice.

Owners have huge costs to pay and are certainly not profiteering.

Last week the family who stayed left so much rubbish it cost £55 to take away, as holiday cottages have to pay for rubbish removal.

The extra cleaning materials and extra bedding ptotection have cost me over £1000 so far.

Cleaning takes 2 hours longer now, due to spraying the whole house with anti viral spray, washing kitchen equipment in case has been touched. The anti viral spray costs me £9 each time, the extra cleaning and washing costs £50. None of these costs are passed on to the customer, and I'm sure most cottage owners are the same.

We almost always travel abroad independently TinyMetalBirds as it tends to work out a lot cheaper that way. Obviously its a lot more work and it does help if you speak the language, though most villa owners etc seem to speak english. But things like picking up hire cars always seem to go more smoothly when we are in a country where one of us can at least have a stab at the language! We prefer to self cater, though have stayed in hotels and we have tended to all stay in one room, though now my boys are in their teens we'd need two which does put the price up a lot.
I wouldn't say we spend less on a holiday abroad than we would in the UK but its not substantially more, when you consider the extra distance travelled. My DH works ridiculous hours and we rarely take more than one week's holiday in the year, so I like it to be somewhere that we are almost guaranteed good weather. Plus there is a slightly higher chance that he will actually stop working if we are abroad. If we holiday here he tends to just view it as a change of office for a week. So the relatively modest extra costs of a holiday in another country are well worth it for us. There are many gorgeous places in the UK its true, but the unpredictability of the weather is the biggest factor that puts me off. I don't want to spend more or less the same amount to spend our one week away in the pouring rain as I could get a week in the sun for.

I looked at booking a 2 bed caravan on a Haven site in Norfolk for 4 nights in August. It was £810 for the standard caravan, most of the facilities are closed too - I couldn’t believe how expensive it was!

My 10 nights in a lodge in the UK is less that a 1/3 of price of 10 nights i had originally booked SC in Balaerics.

Perhaps you could point out where I said "lets hope people go bankrupt", Movinghouseatlast?
I mentioned that I hope property owners enjoy (the higher prices) while they last because I actually feel bad for the situation they're creating for themselves in future, but I also recognise it's their decision to make and their consequences to swallow

FWIW I also agree that owners have large costs to swallow, but wonder if all of these have increased by 60% to reflect the increases some have imposed?

Travelodge just outside Inverness was £80 for 2 nights no breakfast. Lots of those rooms seem to be cheap just now. Maybe try a chain.

On Tuesday evening DH realised he had next weekend off. Went online and booked 2nights camping for him and DDs for £30. He's been before, the facilities are clean (but basic) and the on site cafe was good.

Camping is expensive when you want all the extras like entertainment, EHU, pre erected tents and picturesque surroundings.

@TinyMetalBirds

I haven't read the full thread but will, for ideas, because I have the opposite problem - we almost always holiday in the UK, usually a cottage, because it is cheaper . This year (pre Covid) I was wanting to holiday abroad and looking at France or Greek islands, and was taken aback by the prices when you factor in flights, it would have been £2000-3000 for family of four, which we can't afford. We are going to Devon now, and paying about £900 for a cottage. Where are all these cheap abroad holidays? Maybe they are mentioned in the thread, I shall study it when I can!

easyJet holiday s for sep and October to Turkey are so cheap...we usually do SC and eat out but the all Inc spa hotel is five star and only 70£ more so may do that.. going over for the dentist anyway !!

www.cottagesdirect.co.uk/3068674-1/new-close-cottage-north-yorkshire.aspx?propertyType=1&startDate=8/8/2020&flexibleDate=true&duration=7&partySize=3&sleeps1=0&sleeps2=0&sleeps3Plus=0&lat=53.998&long=-0.9338&zoom=8&criteria=&orderBy=SleepsASC&tab=list&page=1&type=list&rand=533665&region=434&ListRegion=434

www.cottagesdirect.co.uk/701020-2/swift-north-yorkshire.aspx?propertyType=1&startDate=1/8/2020&flexibleDate=true&duration=7&partySize=3&sleeps1=0&sleeps2=0&sleeps3Plus=0&lat=53.998&long=-0.9338&zoom=8&criteria=&orderBy=SleepsASC&tab=list&page=1&type=list&rand=533665&region=434&ListRegion=434

Sorry for the nasty links!! This site has lots of nice cottages for £300-900 for a week. Not many with a hot tub in Yorkshire, but may be more in other areas if you’re flexible?

We aren't going on holiday anywhere this year but we never get change out of £5000 to £6000 when we go to Europe for 2 weeks in the school summer holidays (family of 4). Don't know what we're doing wrong!

Depends. We just booked our caravan for another few days. £30 per night. So the basic accommodation is only £200. Yes we pay food on top. But a couple of trips to Tesco/sainsbury and a takeaway / meal out, is pretty much the same as our costs at home.

I appreciate that because if demand other places the price is hiked up.