How much was your dream holiday? Was it worth it. Follow on from wedding cost thread.

[squirrelchops2]

Hi
Following on from the 'how much was your wedding cost' ...which I couldn't comment on, I'm curious about holidays.

If you've had a dream holiday, how much was it and was it worth it? Most importantly...where!

Cuba was a dream for me and cost £4k which was a lot as I've spent less doing 6 weeks in SEA! However Cuba was amazing, we toured the west side inc Havana with multi stays before ending up in a luxury resort on one of the Cayos.

£6k for 2 weeks in Japan. Worth every single penny.

£20k Japan for 3 weeks. Business class flights for 2 were the biggest part of the cost, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Used to fly all over the world happily in economy but I was young and bendy then and also travelling for longer so could get over jet lag….

12k for 4 of us to spend 2.5 weeks in Japan. That includes all spending money and doing everything we wanted to do. It was about 7 years ago, so would be more now. Worth every penny.

Two.. quite a few years back we spent £35k on a ski chalet in Verbier with my oldest friend’s family. Was a pretty special week. More recently dh and I went all out on a South African safari staying iat Singita which was £4k per night. We then spent a further ten days in the winelands and Cape Town.
At the time I felt sick at the cost but we’re coming up to our 60’s, these are the years memories need to be made and I’ll never forget it.

3 month once in a lifetime trip when my kids were 9 and 12. Stop off in Hong Kong, month travelling round Vietnam, 2 weeks in Cambodia, month in India and two weeks on the beach in Oman. It cost £30,000 but it was priceless to me and I'd do it again tomorrow if I could.

Our dream holiday was 11 years ago, so I've no idea what the equivalent cost would be today, but at the time I guess it cost between £10k and £12k for 2 of us. We went on safari to South Africa, and loved every minute. We researched it carefully and went with an excellent top-end company. This meant that we had amazing game drives, as well as all the stuff you'd expect like accommodation, flights etc.
In my view, for something specialised like safari, I think you need to spend the absolute maximum you can afford - worth every penny.