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?

We are spending £11,000 on a three week trip to San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and New York. (Two adults, two children) This is very much the exception; we normally go camping in UK/France. This is a 'holiday of a lifetime'.

Going to Islay on west coast scotland - holiday cottage for a ten days plus ferry= £500. Just can't afford to go abroad- passports themselves are prohibitively expensive!

Whatever it costs to mend the 30 yr old campervan. Then the cost of bribing the 2 eldest to actually get in the van and come with us.
Love this thread, it's MN at its best!!!

Weeks self cruise in Southern Ireland in May with my whole family. Was a present from my lovely parents at christmas.

2 adults, 2 kids to majorca for a week 4* self catering -£315 total. I work in travel. Wouldn't be going if I didn't!

@ Middlerose. Should they pack the lentils in their suitcases or the cabin bags?

£1350 4 nights half board for 5 in euro disney and £2k for AI in Turkey for 4.

Oh, and a bargain £450 for 5 days in Center parcs for a 4 bed villa.

All in school holidays which I think is quite a bargain.

£2k is about the top of what I could justify for a week away. I would love to blow thousands on a luxury holiday, but I'd struggle to do it.

I am at people who manage to book AI in the Med in school holidays for just a couple of thousand quid.

Every time I look I can never find anything for much less than about 6K and that's only 4*.

I think I must have the wrong sort of Internet

£650 for a three bed villa for two weeks (spain, near the sea) - www.spain-holiday.com i think
£1200 for flights there (and back!!!!)
money for food etc.

Didn't have a holiday last year so going to California early June for 2 weeks. BA flights, 14 nights in 6 different hotels - San Francisco to Las Vegas - (2 rooms in each), car hire for £1,700 each, 2 adults, 2 teenagers, plus spending money. Booked through Trailfinders and thought it was good value. Not in school holidays though as fitted in after girls have finished their AS levels.

Farmhouse in the Lot Valley for 7 with private pool; two weeks in August for €2400. Taking 2 cars through eurotunnel, mostly paid for with tesco clubcard points.

A yacht with just me, George Clooney, Thor and Tom Hardy....priceless

linerunner I do feel you need to stop the penny pinching

It obviously makes a massive difference if you are stuck with school holidays. If you have school aged children the price of everything literally doubles at the of August.

I think you're not comparing like with like - even allowing for MN standards, if you are going for a package, Mark Warner is really the top of the pile - you're paying for the children's activities / babysitting etc. Its the price you pay for a bit of adult time on a family holiday. If I could afford £10k, I'd actually love that and as a family of 5 (mixed ages), would probably think it as money well spent.

Our LEA has 2 weeks holiday at Whit (whereas most places just have 1 week) so we have our 'summer' holiday then. 2 weeks in Cyprus for about £2.5k plus spending money for 11 days. Its why I think school holidays should be staggered, so there isnt a 6 week period where every man & his dog trying to book a holiday at extortionate prices.

Sorry meant prices double at end of July!

Eep! I can't believe how much it costs to go on holiday...

About 1k on a week in Centerparcs in Belgium in the summer half term holidays. Villa was about £280, dining package about £100, £300 for hotels on the way there and back, the rest on activities, petrol and spends as the Channel Tunnel was paid for with Tesco Clubcard vouchers. I thought that was a blow-out holiday!

Holy shit you guys are rich!
What a depressing thread for me. We won't be going anywhere. Again.

But it's only a very tiny fraction of posters who have posted on this thread, dementedma. And some may be prone to exaggeration.

2 weeks in school hols- San Fran then road tripping around Utah and Nevada - canyons, Las Vegas etc.
Currently £1100 each for DP and me, inc all flights, accom, car, some tickets, insurance, car parking at airport etc.

I am v good at sniffing out deals - we are leaving from Dublin instead of LHR which halved the cost of the flights!

Going to stay with family in Greece for 2.5 weeks in July (school holidays) flights will be about £1,500 for 5 of us.

Hoping to use timeshare points to go away during May half term.

Easter last year we took 11 day cruise costing £5,080 plus my MIL AI including all drinks. That included flights to/from Italy. Trips about another £1k

Probably cottage in Ireland for a week - around £600.

£1,200 flights and accommodation for 2 weeks in Germany and Austria (2 adults & 1 child). In August summer holidays.

With train travel, cattery, food and entrance fees as well, probably spend another £1k.

May half term 1 week al ibiza £1.5k for dp, dd and I (free child place)

Sept butlins £280 (1st week so not term time for dd)

October half term 1 week staying at pils in alicante £300-400 depending on flights

2 adults and 3dc 10 days in Greece A/I for £3300 and got £175 cash back for going through top cash back to book it ?? I've been searching for weeks though

A week in our tent in Belgium so kids can do camping outdoorsy stuff and me and DH can drag them round historic cities (and eat chocolate and drink beer) then 4 days in a mobile on a campsite near Paris we can do Disney and Paris. Haven't booked yet but looking like £900-£1,000 for campsites, ferries and Disney tickets for 2 adults and 2 children. Petrol, food, booze and ice-cream on top of that.

Can't wait. Live by the coast, in-laws live near another coast so we do beach stuff a lot. I want to do city stuff for a change.

8 adults in a villa with a pool in Malta including flights and transfers £320 each. Pays to book early.

Sorry, that's for 10 days. I think £32 per head per night is pretty good going!