What do you spend on your family holiday?

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In the hope that Covid retreats I've been browsing holiday ideas. Having muttered "How much?!" at the cost some 7 day holidays I'm wondering how much others spend on a family holiday as a multiple of their monthly income?

Do I need to loosen my purse strings or just accept that I'm a miser / a swankier holiday is just not sufficient a priority for me at the moment?

A month's net salary seems a lot to spend on 1 week.

Thank you

All included for two of us, £1600 for a summer holiday to £2800 for a week's skiing.

This is a really interesting way to discuss it.

We spend about 1/2 a months net income every other year. That feels like a huge splurge to us. The rest of our travel time goes towards visiting family.

Having a look now. Seems reasonable compared to other years. £3-£5k.

Holidays are generally what we choose to spend our spare cash on so we go as luxury as possible. Last one was 18k next one a bit less adventurous so around 13k. That’s for the 4 of us.

Depends on the holiday but I budget up to 20% of our income per year. Usually spend half that

We tend to have two holidays abroad a year. Our summer one will be 5-7 nights at a Eurocamp parc. That usually comes in at around £2k all in. And skiing in the winter which we spend around £3k on. There's four of us. We might have a couple of nights here and there throughout the year too at a caravan park or campsite in the UK.

The Eurocamp holidays are more expensive for us now we go in August rather than June.

I'm a low earner so each holiday is more than double what I earn, but DH is a high earner. We also pay for it piecemeal. For example we've already booked both holidays for next year. We booked the skiing accommodation in the summer, and paid for it in full, and so far we've only paid a deposit on the summer one. We will book and pay for the ski flights this month and then don't need to do any more until the summer. In the intervening months, we can pay off the summer holiday.

Generally by the time we go on holiday, they have been paid for in full and we have spending money ready too. We budget £100 a day for spending money. We go self catering and we don't put food shopping in the holiday budget as that is part of our normal monthly one. We'd be shopping anyway, it's irrelevant where we do it.

We generally do a couple of one-week self-catering trips in the UK, about £1000 each, plus a few weekends camping.

£100 per night for a cottage for a week for a uk holiday.

£100-150pp per night for an abroad holiday approx for 2 x dd and I.

We will hopefully go camping in France, £800 for the campsite (lots of facilities, could easily be half that) and usually £400 for the ferry although the route isn't running at the moment so we're not 100% sure how it's going to work out.

Meant to be going to a cottage in Devon in Feb half term for £400 but suspect that will be delayed again. It was originally booked for last Easter!

In normal times, probably about three months net salary a year goes on holidays. That’s probably excessive but we’d rather do that than buy lots of Christmas presents/new clothes/eat out a lot.

We do a fortnight in the south of France for £2500 (me, DH and 2 DS's). We drive, not fly and get an air BnB. We don't do expensive days out; boulangerie in the morning, beach/park and then chill in the evening. Proportionally the second week is cheaper as we've already paid the travel expenses.

Otherwise it's a week camping in the UK, probably costs £500 with lots of activities.

If we go abroad usually about a month and a half salary for the six of us.

Uk about half that.

Mini break with friends is usually free accommodation due to the points DH accumulates by working away then about £500 spending money.

We were due to go on a long haul last year for about £12,000 plus spending money, haven't rebooked yet.

Unlike my family I really, really begrudge spending a lot on holidays. They're a massive waste of money in my opinion. I'd rather do days out and weekend breaks.

Also, what you're happy to spend depends on what you want to get out of your holiday. There's no way that we'd sink £3k on an all-inclusive resort in Spain. It's not our scene. But £3k for lift passes/ski lessons/ski hire etc is fine by us. We like to have value for money, especially when we're spending thousands on it.
What sort of holidays are you looking at? If you're thinking mainland Europe, you could drive which brings the cost down significantly.

varies depending on the holiday have done cheap £200 for the week camping in UK to 2K all inclusive in Kos

£600 is the budget for the week with extra £100 for food, £100 for petrol and £100 for activities or random expenses. So £900 all in, for four, UK holiday, school holidays

Last summer we went abroad and managed nine nights across two sites, one country and one city. That was £850 for travel and accommodation, £300 for food, £100 for insurance and extras. So £1250 all told, again in summer holidays

Depends
last year We did 4 weeks in Mexico and cost 6k inc flight & All inclusive hotel that was for me and my husband
My DS and I were going to Vegas & New York in July last year but it was cancelled because of covid and that was 3k for both of us for two weeks inc flights transfers and hotels but no food drink or spending money

It's been different since Covid times but before I would spend about 25% of my income on holidays. I'm a single parent with one DS. I would pay up to £5k for a long haul holiday and £3k for a short haul. School holidays make it more costly though. We've not been anywhere last year though. Might get a Butlins weekend this year if we're lucky!

We have 3 kids so it's always going to be quite expensive. We always self-cater and often camp or go to youth hostels. Some of our best holidays have been in Eurocamp mobile homes in France at the beginning of September when the price goes right down - sometimes that means there is no kids' club as it finishes in August but mine don't like them anyway.

I’ve just done a new budget as have managed to pay off debts this year what with doing nothing. Lone parent with a teenager. I take home £2.5k a month. I’m looking at saving £3k a year to cover one foreign week long trip and one long weekend abroad as well. Although looking to get a dog so it may end up being a uk weekend ! Not planning to go anywhere this year so I’m hoping that will allow 2x proper hols 2022.

Couple of grand. Gets us 10 nights in France, fuel, crossing, toll roads, days out, food and drink. Lots of exploring, treats etc.

In the "cheap week" during spring we used to get a eurocamp hol for 300 quid so that was probably 1500 total.

Depends on the type of holiday. For something unique like a safari it will be upwards of £10k but wouldn't be prepared to pay that for a beach resort in Europe no matter how luxurious.

Interesting, interesting and a good point about what do you want to get out of a holiday steering what you'd be willing to 'invest'. Something to think on some more.

I'd love to take the DS x2 on a ski holiday and would be prepared to release more moths from my purse for that!

About 3k including spending money. This is usually for cottage/villa hire, flights for 4, car hire and money to eat in/out for a week. We have to go dur9nf school holidays though, before the DC were compulsory school age we did the same sort of thing for almost 1k less.