How much do you spend on a holiday?

[Pinkunicorn21]

A bit of a nosy question but I’m just curious / if our expectations are unrealistic / if we should be spending less!

We have booked our first family holiday abroad, it’s in the school summer holidays but it’s cost us just shy of £4000. It’s a weeks holiday in Greece, all inclusive, including flights? This for me seems like a lot of money. Our joint income before tax is £75,000 a year, I work part time and my husband works full time. It just seems like a big chunk of our salary to go on a weeks holiday, we can afford it (if we are careful with everything else) and I’m looking forward to it and know our little one will have a great time. I’m just wondering what do the average family spend on an abroad holiday and if you spend more or less / what percentage of your income goes towards a holiday once a year?

In the school holidays I’m afraid that’s on the cheap side for all inclusive. We paid 3600 for five star all inclusive for 5 of us but two weeks later the same holiday was over 5000. It’s very expensive to go away in the school holidays now

If you have cut your cloth to fit your income that’s all that matters. Last year we only spent 1.5k as had a week on the Isle of Wight but one year we had a road trip across the USA for a month. We decided to never work out exactly what we spent as it was such a lot which is unlike us. Most that I know the exact cost of was a 2 week med cruise for 7k.

Sorry meant to say 4600 not 3600

If it's all inclusive you'll probably spend very little. Perhaps some trips or spending money for the children, as well as ice lollies/ice creams during the day if these aren't included.

We have just got back from a nine day holiday in the UK. We had a take away every night. We spent more than £500 plus accommodation of more than £1000 !!

Greece is expensive these days and it's peak season so yes that sounds normal / even on the cheap side tbh.
If you want to spend less you can consider cheaper resorts - places in Turkey/ Croatia/ Albania even Montenegro. If you don't go all inclusive and eat out in these cheaper resorts it'll likely be cheaper. Eating out in Greece is pricey these days so you're probably better off all inclusive in Greece

Most holidays for us are around £5000 for a AI type holiday, but we have gone up to £12,000 for Florida and will do again when we do California, I'm assuming Japan will be that much (very happy for someone to tell me otherwise!) we save £6000 a year for holidays as standard, and top up with bonuses etc, so we tend to alternate between a big one, 2 years of "cheaper holidays" followed by a big one. That's been our pattern thus far at least.

Just to add priority for us. Our income is over six figures now, but we spent £4K on holidays when our income was smaller than yours. We've been known to spend more towards our holiday pot than we do our mortgage.

We spend about 2 grand but we book things independently and use public transport and for a few nights a hostel type hotel (that’s new and beautiful with private room and lovely breakfast so nicer than most hotels)

I am very grateful we live a part of the country where we get two weeks rather than one at end of May. We use that as the opportunity to go abroad and tend to spend £2k for a two week holiday in south France self catering with car hire, flights etc.

We then do a week in the UK in the Summer, no more than £800 for a week as I book early and shop around.

Dreading the move to secondary school as we'll then be looking at going abroad in July/August.

Before DC we travelled spent about 10-20% of income on travel. We earnt quite well, though! It's probably more like 5-10% since we had DC.

Now, we've just booked Japan. I'd say it's 20% of our annual income BUT we've been saving & are taking a cheap local holiday this year.

Travel is more important than eating out for us, so we save for it & jump.on cheap deals (flights just booked half price). I think it just depends on what your priorities are!

We normally do 2 holidays each year. This year has been Tenerife which was £2.5k AI and then we will be going to Dubai in November which is about £3.5k FB. We do save on flights as I get staff rates and we also save up avíos which we use to make our flights cheaper. Also our DD is not in school yet so we are able to take her away during off peak times at the moment. In our household I work part time and take care of childcare costs and holidays, my partner works full time and pays for the household bills.