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!

Central Algarve? Quinta do Lago/Vale do lobo

Wow all these holidays are quite astonishing. Does anyone on this thread understand climate change at all? Or does everyone just not care?

We have a household income of about 100k which my dh keeps reminding me, puts us in the top 4% financially in the Uk. Yet we are not wealthy, we’re comfortable. It would appear, more comfortable than the vast majority.

We’re going camping in France and pushing the boat out for a detour to Disney on the way back

plus

a short break in Europe

plus

a UK cottage break

that’s a pretty extravagant year for us

I am speechless at some people’s multiple posh holiday plans. Presume they must in the top 1-2% income wise.

I am speechless at some people’s multiple posh holiday plans. Presume they must in the top 1-2% income wise.

Or have no mortgage and like me spend 50% of income on holidays. I go away very nearly every month.

I dont think it puts you in the top 4%- at £50k each you are not even in the top 10%. My own income is greater than that without my DH and it doesnt even put me in the top 10% of women

There are many things that contribute to climate change.

Large families
High meat diet
Buying plastic crap, fast fashion and new tech every five minutes.
Massive gas guzzling 4x4s.

As I'm childfree, eat hardly any meat, drive a tiny petrol car and buy hardly any 'stuff' I feel no guilt for going on holiday to a sunnier part of Europe two or three times a year.

@BoneshakerBike
this article states that a household income over 100k puts us in the top 5%
https://www.chase.co.uk/gb/en/hub/living-on-100k/
admittedly it’s a year old

meanwhile this article suggests that only 4% of individuals earn over 100k
https://upthegains.co.uk/blog/is-100k-a-good-salary-uk

by many measures a household income over 100k is extremely lucky and I’m very aware. By global measures it’s something like the top 2%. Yet we feel far from wealthy, and are pretty staggered by the holiday budgets some on here seem to have. We’re not in London, and don’t have a very big mortgage either.

We are middle class and well off but can't justify most holiday prices - no idea how so many people go away several times a year (we also run a business which we can't shut down several times a year so usually go away for a week in summer then take a week at Xmas to relax at home). This year we are taking my MIL to the Lake District for a week (staying in Air BNB) as she has never been and was recently diagnosed with a life limiting illness. I know she will love it and I'm happy holidaying in the UK. I just hope the weather improves!

OK TunaCrunchy! share your secret please? how did you make your money ?!
😊👋
@TunaCrunchy

"We have a household income of about 100k which my dh keeps reminding me, puts us in the top 4% financially in the Uk."

Where's he got that from? 🤣 I could not be going on holiday with someone so bloody foolish that he keeps quoting random nonsense. 4% my arse

Very nice walking areas around both of those towns 👍 - if you like walking

you're kidding right ?

So that doesnt add up
If only 4% earn over £100k then having a joint income of £100k cant put you in the top 5% ?

Yes, I was thinking the same.

I know. I've been to them. Sheringham was near ex MIL's holiday home, so multiple schleps up there both before and after DD to then have to walk to see the lifeboat museum in case it had changed, walk to the bloody railway bridge to watch them get the engine up to steam at stupid AM, walk to see how much of the Runtons had plummeted to the beach over the previous six weeks, walk to MIL's beach hut where she'd sit with her flask of gnats' piss tea all day so that everybody could see that she had a beach hut....and the food? 'The chip shop has the best chips in England, you know'. They were just, well, chips?

Salcombe. Well, nice if you don't mind the HGVs and pissed up blokes zooming round the sticky out corner that was the front door all night. And it was fairly quick to escape from as long as you left before 7am to get yourself somewhere before the majority of the walkers and their untrained mutts could go sheep worrying on their way to a pub lunch at midday.

I just don't see them as aspirational.

P###ing myself 🤣🤣🤣

Thank u cheered up Sunday evening 👍🤣

Sounds like it’s definitely safe then if they’ve never had trouble. 😎

Or lying of course. 🙄

Most posh/ wealthy people I know spend a lot of time in the uk over the summer but go away a lot in the winter.

Summer tends to be either Cornwall, Devon or North Norfolk.

Winter - anywhere near the equator…

I'm working class too which is why I'm day dreaming about where the wealthy mc go!

OK then.

We've had a ski trip to Val D'Isère and a couple of weeks on a Greek island (agree with PP that it's beautiful in Spring)
Main holiday this Summer will be French Alps, likely including a few days in Geneva.
We have inherited a house just outside the Yorkshire Dales. Will be selling but have had a couple of trips there so far and will hopefully get a some more visits in before we sell.
Probably a week near Fontainebleau at some point ('cos we usually do!)
Back to Greece in the Autumn
Maybe Far East towards the end of the year.
A bike tour at some point. No idea of timing or location at the moment.

Davos or similar. Possibly Zermatt
Sardinia
Italian lakes
Caymen Islands or BVI
Scotland

Also Norfolk or Salcombe

It’s as if climate change is someone else’s problem. Those who are the poorest in the world impacted the most.

Peurto Rico in Gran Canaria or the actual place in Central America?