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!

Me too. We work so hard, but struggling to afford even a UK caravan holiday and no guarantee of the weather even if we do. Managed to save for week in Majorca last summer, worst thing we did really as the kids now ask to go back and it's awful feeling like you're disappointing them. No idea how everyone else affords all these trips, not resenting people enjoying themselves, just feeling a bit sorry for myself.

You dont write Majorca is you are posh and wealthy

We’ve had a quiet holiday year as it’s A levels and DD is revising

Feb: the kids skied in Canada with family. I don’t ski

March: Dubai, suprising number of “naice” MC people there for a non long haul sunny break

June: our family villa in Murcia

July: kids are doing south / Central America

August: Month in Mallorca

october: ikos at the end of the season

December: Barbados

next year planning Costa Rica and Japan as our big trips

Do you work?

Wondering how people have enough annual leave for all these holidays

And that's a "quiet" holiday year.

Riiiight 🙄

You could boast about your holidays with a bit more grace, you know,

Also uurgh at your kids "doing" south and Central America. Visiting, perhaps? Or travelling around? No, "doing". Get that box ticked, kids.

We are moderately okay off, not wealthy but an okay amount of disposable income (DH has a well paid job and I do quite well self employed - so touch wood it continues) 🙏

But we now really prioritise travel. And I think a lot of people are. Tbh without sounding conspiracy-ish , since covid I feel like they could quite easily stop normal people flying and I wouldn't be surprised if travel becomes out of the reach of normal people in my lifetime

So last year we went Cornwall in June then Devon in July, Marbella in September

This year we've been to the Bahamas in feb, then Sheringham, Norfolk in the Easter holiday. We are going st Ives in Cornwall again in July then Spain in September. I'd also like to squeeze in another trip as well Altho dh has almost ran out of annual leave despite buying extra 😜

Oh and I may be okay for money but I'm not posh!! 🤣🤣

@Papyrophile yep as someone who did a family holiday to Antigua in July I can attest to that and I was bitten to hell and beyond- my H lived there asa kid for 2 years and wanted to go back and was only time we could afford. No hurricanes but rained every lunch for 2 hours and was really humid.

I'm not posh.

We have been to the alps skiing.

Returned from Costa Rica yesterday

Portugal in the summer

India at Christmas

Plus one weekend in the lakes
And a few trips to London.

DS's friends have been skiing, Turkey, Spain, Everest base camp

I’m working class OP but going to lots of the places you mentioned. Done skiing already this year and got St Ives, Greece and Ibiza booked. Working class doesn’t mean poor 😉

Yes, but somewhere that only operates term times so we’re very lucky in that respect.

All bar one of them fell in the school holidays. It honestly is super unusual though - previous to that, we’d only been abroad once every 2-3 years.

Italian Riviera in the yacht. With a couple of days in Capri for a spot of shopping.

I’m not posh or wealthy, I’m from a council estate and grew up on benefits. Myself & partner are degree educated in professional roles. I’m off too the following places this year ;

May - San Francisco & Las Vegas with a friend
June - family holiday to Cyprus with my LO & partner
August - weekend break with relatives to Puerto Banus
September - weekend break with my LO & partner.
November- theatre break to London.

My partner has had a week skiing in Austria in January and will be going on a golf holiday to Portugal in June.

We save each month as holidays are important to us.

If I were holiday planning, for a wealthy person without friends' super yacht invite options, I would plan six weeks school summer holidays in three bookings of a fortnight each, and invite my female friends and their children to visit, plus husbands at the weekends. And I would just choose comfortable 4 bed houses between the obvious cities, so there's a reasonable airport taxi service. For me, the best place to do this in Europe is the northern coast of Spain. However, it is where every wealthy Spaniard takes their holiday so it is expensive in summer.

Funny you should say that as the poshest person I know has a really poor travel history 😂

They have an apartment in the south of France so they go there all the time and rarely bother going elsewhere.

What really saddens me is that she's been to very few of the beautiful areas of the UK. She's been to Cornwall once, and Norfolk once. She's never set foot in the Lake District, Pembrokeshire, Devon etc.

I'm not posh but we do have money. We've travelled (backpacked initially) round the world several times.

It was wonderful 20 years ago...Belize, Bali (30 years ago), Guatemala, Nepal, Japan, etc etc.

Now...we love our campervan. Hate airports (have for many years). Spend lots of time in Northern Europe. No desire to revisit anywhere that once was "exotic". It's been ruined.

It is sometimes not the price though, I think middle class or upper will expect to entertain themselves rather than be entertained so for example not stay on a site that has a "turn" on every night , they may linger over dinner for a few hours and see chatting with their friends either at a restaurant or in their accommodation as their entertainment. And perhaps don't feel the need to "make friends" with fellow holiday makers - confident in their own company. Just my thoughts.

So posh, wealthy people don't make friends on holiday or need to be entertained? Only poor working class people do? The snobbery on this thread is amusing me.

I think I'm fairly MC, and I promise you I am never going any place where "entertainment" is part of the pitch.

They all seemed to be off to the Maldives this year...

Air travel has become cheaper as flights have increased but the weather is only good for a short window of the year. Mostly nothing to do in the rain- people don't often go twice!

@BlancheSaysYes I might make friends on holiday, but I can't actually think of anything more cringeworthy than "entertainments". I don't go on holiday to make friends at all casual chat is enough. I go on holiday with DH, family or friends to deepen and renew friendships or to see new to me places. BUT, big but, I am 67 so it would be very different with young kids. It's unlikely that we shall have DGC in less than 10 years, by which time we will be closer to 80 and probably not much use.

Hope all these people flying thousands of miles every year for a "nice holiday" feel okay with what they are doing re climate change. It's like a big Fuck You to the rest of the population who are trying to do their best.

Not super wealthy but Financially comfortable enough to factor in quite a lot of travel - although a lot of it is free accommodation + we drive to Austria / Switzerland / France / Italy - we put all my husbands work expenses though our credit card so get air miles for our ‘big trip’ every year

christmas - home

feb half term

• skiing Austria - cousin has a chalet so we all just chip in for a chef service for the week.

Easter

• long weekend in Brittany with family for 4 days over actual Easter.
• long weekend skiing Switzerland without children.

summer Half term -

• aix en Provence (in laws have a villa there and my BIL, SIL, DH and I all go there every year with our children

summer holidays

• 3 weeks in Trevose (near padstow, Cornwall - parents have a house there)
• two weeks in Italy
• long weekend without the children in Lisbon for a friends wedding.

october half term

• 2 weeks in Jamaica (visiting friends who have the most glorious farm up in the mountains. Inland Jamaica is heaven on earth.)