Where are all the posh, wealthy folk holidaying this year?

[Primroseoil]

I'm neither but the wealthy middle class families in the Dc's class are headed to Greece & Ibiza.
One of the families was skiing in Austria at half term, the other family skiing in the French Alps in the Easter hols.
Also they have numerous UK trips to St Ives etc during the summer..

Happy to be getting away to Spain this year. But I do get wanderlust watching where the people with money & means go!

Aside from the Maldives, most of the places mentioned here can be done on a budget so I'm not sure they're exclusive to the posh and/or wealthy. I've been to many in recent years or planned this year and for a family of 4 we don't tend to pay more than £4K for a holiday.

I work for the very wealthy (family office type work)

choices this year are:

shooting in scotland
golf resorts - Scotland/spain/west coast of Ireland
Sri lanka
jordan
nepal
cruising Alaska

I'm very wealthy.. ( payout.. I've told about before). But I'm not posh/ middle class.
I do holiday a lot.. but the Canaries/ Greece/ Cyprus/ Portugal.. yes we get a private villa.. but we SC and eat out.
Not sure my body could do long haul.

Hmmm, so far

cornwall- short trip
french alps for skiing
Bordeaux for summer
Ireland- short trip
Ibiza -short trip

We're not posh or wealthy, but we're comfortable and lots of our disposable income goes on travelling. This year we are going to/have already been...

Norway for New Year, including a days skiing at Skimore (3 nights)
Skiing in the French Alps followed by two nights in Paris at Easter (9 nights)
Luxembourg in May half term (3 nights)
Dubrovnik in August (3-4 nights planned, no DH or kids, just my best friend and I)
Northern France at the end of August (6 nights)
Sofia around September (3 nights planned, DH and friends trip)
Dorset October Half term (Haven, 3 nights with friends)
Skiing in Italy over Christmas (4 nights)

A mix of transportation. We interrailed for Easter Skiing, we'll drive to N. France (via Chunnel) and Dorset and the rest are/were flights. All are booked apart from our individual trips.

Le pool de noir....

Haha at the wealthy never going to Dubai 😂

A lot of people seem to go to the IKOS and Sani resorts if they like the all inclusive thing. You’re looking at £10k a week or something in peak holiday season.

Most wealthy people I know actually seem to holiday at their own or friends houses. Usually it seems to be somewhere with water - so they have a house and boat of some sort.

I’d say I’d expect my well off acquaintances (being really extravagant) to do:

• Christmas in the Caribbean
• Skiing at half term or Easter in Verbier or Val D’Isere (or similar)
• Summer trip to anywhere really… but often it’s even UK, they own a house in Cornwall or something
• Lots of random weekend trips to a pals place on the Isle of Wight, the Cotswolds, Mallorca / Ibiza etc

I say this to people when they tell me that they could never afford to ski. But when I ask about their holiday plans, they've got a two week all inclusive holiday to somewhere like Greece in August. My Easter ski holiday will have come in less than that. Its just the perception that it's only for the wealthy.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a cheap holiday, but last year I got a 2 bed apartment at the foot of the slopes for £380 for the week, the first week of the Easter holidays. You couldn't get accommodation for anything close to that in the UK for that week.

I’m poor and common but my richest poshest friend is going to Turks and Caicos this year. Last year it was Costa Rica.

Well I'm not posh or wealthy but we are off to Hydra (Greek island) in July with 2 days in Athens at beginning. Hydra gets a lot of posh and wealthy as it doesn't have packages and no big hotels

@SecretTango indeed- I think it's perception. We are paying £2700 for 10 days with flights at great times and absolutely top end accommodation. It's not AI but I don't want that anyway as like going to different places each evening .

Please can you define posh and wealthy so I know whether to answer or not?

I think push wealthy may work there a lot. I know many of of corporate wealthy seem to go to the Middle East loads. It's not a cool / nice destination though.

They all ski relentlessly. This year several people I know have been more than once. Maybe because we're all in our 50's with older kids.

In fact wealthy people of my age all seem to be visiting their kids who are (properly, not temping) working overseas.

Everyone I’m talking to is going on not one, but three or four holidays this year, and they are not even wealthy people!

Wtf is going on at all?

Ah my chance to vent.
If you're going to Salcombe please be a bit kinder to shop staff. They're not bloody slaves.
I've got a very capable kindly young person working for me and they don't deserve the utter disrespect.

😡

Sardinia

We went to the Caribbean

Honestly....bar the likes of Benidorm and other traditionally tacky places like that I think they holiday in the same places as everyone else but stay at the higher end places/villas.

@ElizabethVonArnim 🤣🤣🤣

I thought India was the top place

Cornwall, Scotland for stalking, Croatia or French Riviera for sun, France/Austria for skiing, New York for a bit of shopping.

I am doing this and it’s because:

• the weather has been crap since summer 2022
• It is ‘safe’ to book travel again without the risk of random Covid policies being introduced
• Feeling generally short changed on holidays due to Covid

Italy. Sardinia, Ligurian Riviera or Sorrento.

Its not cheap and therefore attracts a certain type of holidaymaker.

I think that they tend to stick to where they feel most comfortable, the same as everyone else really.
However if they are upper class, really wealthy and enjoy the wider world they don't see home as one limited location as much as the rest of us do. They have homes in multiple locations where they also feel "at home". So they may have a lake house in the Italian lakes, a chalet in Switzerland for skiing and a couple of places in the Uk. These may be family properties where they have grow up visiting and rather than thinking of it as a holiday they consider it a bit like continuing day to day life but in a different place.

The rich middle class with young children will most probably have multiple holidays throughout the year but can afford to visit each location at the best time for the climate. So Indian Ocean at Easter say, Caribbean at Christmas, skiing February, the Mediterranean Spring or late summer, Britain in July.