to ask how much you are spending on your foreign summer family holiday this year?

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I've spent today getting quotes for my family of 5 to spend two weeks in Spain/Italy/Greece/Turkey. I'm astounded by how much it costs to spend a fortnight away. Mark Warner quoted me over £10k for s fortnight in their cheapest resort!!!

So where are you going and how much are you paying for flights plus accommodation?

Ours will just be petrol to MIlLs in North devon, won't be able to afford a holiday this year as just bought the boys new beds and repainted thier room and will be buying dd one next month and painting her room and probably decorate our room the month after.

Last year we camped on the Isle of wight for a week as it cost £75 for ferry plus petrol and £130 for the campsite in August

Year before we camped in tenby for 3 nights and was about £100 plus petrol
Year before we 'splashed' out an at london, got an apetment in Canary wharf for £400 (MIL came and paid £150 of it) plus train tickets which I think we're about £100. Plus travel passes which I can't remember but kids went free. We did lots of free things except the eye and boat tour both of which were paid for as xmas presents from family.

nearly £50,000 on holidays??? really? £30,000 for a christmas holiday?

and another post with nearly £100,000 *cant be arsed to scroll up again!

nice if you can do it - what line of work are you in that pays that well and gives that much time off?

(i'm doing USA twice this spring and then somewhere like Cuba or Mexico, but i work for a travel firm, so its not costing me that much at all!!)

10 days camping in France. Eurotunnel £160, fuel £120, camping pitch £300, food not much more than at home. The kids love camping, there was a rebellion last year when I booked a gite.

VivaLa The flights are with Norwegian.com & I got this hotel through amoma.com (via booking.com or trivago?). Not hiring a car as on the waterfront & lots of ferries to other islands & good public transport in Stockholm itself. Cheap because Stockholm business sector goes really quiet in July.

Never go abroad. Self catering in UK for 6 of us for a week - about £800. We could have afforded (pre-extension build) more expensive holidays, but to me it seems like a monumental waste of money!

these threads are v difficult as we aren't comparing apples with apples
if you are independently wealthy with a well paying job your hol spend will be vastly different from someone earning 30K

i am unsure that the comparisons are healthy

When our finances are more level again I'm going to spend it on holidays - it's the thing I miss most! Why do you think they're a waste of money?!

I don't really spend much on other stuff I guess

iseenodust. Thanks, will keep that info for next year!

to answer the question asked in the title -

As reguards holidays overseas - we're not having one, never had one, probably never will.
We don't have that kind of money.

£500 for ten days in the south of france. got cheap flights and staying in hostels and cycling to each one.

Nothing.

Contemplating a cottage in the Scottish borders for a short break. Still trying to work out how long we can tolerate in a strange place, together, without one of us imploding with stress.

£2.5k for a week in Canada (2 weeks and a 14 month old, mostly staying with family with 3 nights in a lakeside resort).

I think we spent about £3k on our last holiday - road trip in the mid-west USA. Most expensive holiday EVER though because I came back pregnant - the internet says £200k +

£850 one a week in Butlins in august!

Cheap one for us this year, as I am all spent up from the last 2 years holidays. £700 on flights for me and DS for 10 days in Abu Dhabi. We stay at my sisters, so no hotel bills.

Will probably do a few weeks away in this country.

I think they're a waste of money because I like to be home. I am very much a home bod. When I say waste of money, I mean a waste of money if we spent £5000 going abroad, not for £800 in UK. It would involve stress trying to feed gluten free vegetarians!

As a child we had one week's holiday away in the UK every other year. Dh's upbringing was pretty much the same.

2500 for 10 days in Italy staying in 2 Eurocamp venues.

It's the first time the DCs have been anywhere other than France and they can't wait. They are so excited.

DS isn't interested in going away with me these days. (he's almost 16). he's itching to get to the time when he can go away with friends (gulp).

Fair enough - I like time at home too and am lucky that I get quite a lot of AL. UK holidays were my favourite when I was little!

Foreign holiday?
Holiday?
Day trip?

Nadda!

But you are quite right not to want to be ripped off!

We're going to Soma Bay, Egypt next week (!).

The shark attacks and political unrest have translated into a pretty cheap holiday: we're staying at the Kempinski for 10 days, and it's only 3,500 including flights including room upgrades.

We're looking at £3.5k for ten nights in Greece at the end of August/first week September for 2 adults 2 children on All Inclusive (school isn't back till 7 Sept this year thanks to inset days). We haven't had a beach/resort holiday since they were born 10 years ago. We've always camped or carravanned for under £500 for a fortnight, and most often less. It's a shocking price to me but given that we won't take them out of school, them's the breaks. We could save fractionally over £1,000 if we go the last two of September. It's almost worth paying the fines and taking the diapproval of the school & our snotty Head for absence.

200 on a week at Butlins for a family of 4.

One week self catering in Turkey for 800, also for the 4 of us. Hotel either side of anti-social flights, return petrol and parking adds in another 200. We will probably spend around 500 when we are out there.

Spend is approx 4% of income although a big portion has been paid for by my DPs Christmas money and I need my bonus for spending money on holiday (not yet confirmed!)

This is our last year of term time holidays as DD starts school in September, not sure we will manage the same when we have to pay school holiday prices!

We don't generally go on big expensive holidays - we have a few breaks through the year. We did do a trip to Australia and Singapore a few years ago and that cost around £9K.

Last year we had a few days in South Wales in May half term, and in the summer we had a week in Jersey. We spent quite a lot on our house so didn't go overboard on trips.

This year we are spending Easter on Guernsey, 4 days in May half term in Jersey and having a 4 night break in Berlin in the summer. The Berlin trip is around £800 for flights and hotel for 3 of us.

Guernsey - £250 for the ferry, and then 4 nights in an expensive hotel and I am also paying for my mum's room as a birthday present so it will be around £2K altogether.

Jersey: probably around £1500 all in with flights, hotel and food when we are there.

Mamazilla - your holidays sound fab

As someone who used to work with some very wealthy people, I can assure posters on here that this kind of expenditure is not unusual amongst very well-paid people.

I'm looking forward to when I get my earnings up again and can plan similar trips(although I'm not sure I'll be quite in mamazilla's league). I can never understand when people are jealous of those who've worked hard, earn a lot and how they choose to spend it, I am more of the American mindset of 'well done,now how do I do that too?'.

Wayfaring have you added too many 0's or are you honestly spending £70K on holidays this year?? I am