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?

Sentosa....coast is right on beach, does lovely food, it is also next to sky diving( indoor place) and luge. Also huge zip line park there

Try one of the hawker centers for food...Newton is good

Marina bay to Ku de ta for cocktails

Universal is okay but very hot

You can go to mount Fabre and get the cable car across to sentosa

Gardens by the bay..then satay by the bay for lunch

Thank you Christina

No holidays abroad for us this year

Luckily my sister is the manager of a hotel in a beautiful place in Scotland so she can put us up there for a week and we just have to pay for the petrol to get us there. Also PIL's always pay for us to join them in the lakes for a week or weekend in August. Looking forward to it!

2 weeks in the Balearics here, 2 adults and 2 kids during Summer holidays. Decent local departure flights and private villa with amazing pool - £1200 all in.

We go with family and split the cost of the villa but finding the right villa takes forever and probably costs me £500 in time!

Lots of amazing sounding holidays here, especially the Scandi ones, hoping to go there for 40th in a couple of years time.

We are doing 2 weeks in wales! So excited as I love Wales and so the children. First week in a Manor house in Pembrokeshire with my folks and sister and her family (11 of us in total) for £600 then one week just the five of us in a three bed self catering cottage overlooking an estuary on the Gower peninsula for £750.

Two weeks in the Algarve in August, 4 adults and 3 kids £4k. Flights were £1200 (bargain I thought for 7) and £2800 for villa with own pool. Works out at £2k per family (going with sister and her family). Car hire and spending money on top. Plan on having lots of BBQs and picnics at the beach. So in total, for my share, hopefully no more than £3.5k. Usually would do AI with First Choice but this year opted out as fed up with the morning rush for sun beds! Hoping this year will be more chilled. No need to get dressed up for meals etc unless we decide to eat out. Kids are older now so no need for the entertainment anymore. ( although I will miss bingo)

Nothing.
A week in a caravan in Cornwall for us, and very happy with it too!

I suppose I think spending loads of money on cars and handbags is a complete waste and would far rather spend it on holidays but we are all different.

Going on a roadtrip to the States this year - cost around £6k.

Went to Indonesia and Malaysia and spent around £15k for 3 weeks last year. Haven't done long haul for many years though (cost rather than lack of desire).

Our house is falling down but I live for holidays.

The road trips in USA sound fab!

My head feels giddy at the thought of spending over £10k on a holiday.

I have never had the luxury of staying in a five star hotel.

£3000 for a (luxurious) villa with pool in Greece for 2 weeks. Flights £1200, car, food, spending money. Eek

Most expensive holiday was £1,300 each all inclusive in the Carribean. Nice food but bog standard hotel (nowhere near the 4* advertised in brochure).

You definitely get what you pay for. I begrudge paying to stay in hotels that are not as clean/modern as my house. I hate manky bathrooms the most.

Yosemite I do not blame you. Holidays bring experiences that a new kitchen, bathroom does not. Wouldn't it be nice to not have to choose?

It would be lovely not to have to choose Openup41 and if I'm totally honest we do bung some of it on credit. I have this complete fear of something dreadful happening to one of us and not being able to travel again. I've been an avid backpacker all my life, the luxury one last year was definitely a one-off, I really do live for travelling.

Once we've paid off the house, I plan to go on mamazilla style of holidays every year! I live to travel too.

Just over a grand for four of us, 9 nights B&B, on the Amalfi coast in June. Flights included.

Not looking forward to having to pay school holiday prices as of next year!

I don't have a smart house, any posh handbags and my car is 9 years old!
I don't begrudge anyone their hols (as I said, you can't beat Cornwall) but please don't assume I'm spending vast amounts of disposable income on other luxuries!.
Your posh hold all sound very nice, BTW!

Family of 5 (3 adults, two kids) about £2500 for flights with easyjet and an apartment in Tenerife booked via alpharooms.com. We are self-catering so obviously need to add spending money to that, plus car hire - it will probably be about £3400 in total.

That's in school holidays, it would all be lots less otherwise :(

Mine should say 2 adults, 3 kids, not the other way round!

Hardly ever go abroad. Rely on our caravan in a field and find the rising pitch rent a struggle, but its peanuts compared with the holiday costs in many of the posts here on this topic.

I feel guilty posting on these threads I really do but the OP did ask and it seems silly not to answer as so many topics can offend but it's honestly not meant.

Loving reading about peoples trips! We are off to aus in april, just DH and I, flights we got for a bargain (£950 for BOTH!), spent an extra £2500 on 3 weeks of hotels/apartments and car hire for some of the trip. Additional £800 for a great barrier reef trip and then will need spending money, estimating an additional £2k-3k.
Usually we have one big holiday (though not usually as big as this) plus some weekends away. Already had one weekend away to the New Forest in January (approx 1k), going to crete for 4 days in May and really hoping to go away this Christmas but nothing booked yet, which is rather daft as everything books up waaaay in advance then.
Both of us don't smoke or drink very much, holidays are our main splurge but will curb when baby arrives.

open I'm a bit meh about 5* hotels, they really are not all that great unless you can afford a large suite - for the money I'd rather have a villa or a lovely apartment.

I did once spend £5k on a holiday for myself It was a post-divorce booster, booked short notice and custom built by the agent. I went to Singapore and Thailand for 3½ weeks. It's not my most memorable trip by a long way - but it made me feel good and gave me new experiences: job done.

That was about 15 years ago, so would be £7.5k now. I don't know how I'd deal with a broken heart these days: a long-haul ticket has always been my trusty cure!