The cost of UK summer holidays this year [shock]

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Is it just the places I am looking at or have prices gone sky-high? Week at a Parkdean holiday park in Devon last summer £2,080, this year £3,180!!

@Coffeeandcocopops it's with PGL.
The accommodation is basically "school residential trip" style but apparently it is very clean so I'm not too fussed. The price includes room, food, and 4 activities a day, which is what makes it so reasonable!

We’re going to Southsea for 7 nights (hopefully) staying in a beautiful flat for 4. 2 bedrooms. 140£ per night plus 40£ cleaning fee. All through Airbnb.
Got the beach, the common, hover craft to the Isle of Wight, arcades and the funfair on the doorstep. Great take always, as well as restaurants and gunwharf for shopping. Historical dockyards about 15 mins walk away.

Cottage prices are ridiculous
Adding in petrol, food, and bit of sightseeing it's going be a very expensive holiday

Where are you guys going? Are you all just looking at Devon and Cornwall?

We just booked a week in a two bedroom suite in a beachfront hotel in Kent, B&B, first week in August, for £900. We’ve stayed there before, it’s lovely.

Have also been looking at AirBnBs in North Wales (DS is obsessed with Ivor the Engine right now, so we thought Aberdovey would be nice for May bank holiday). Plenty of two-bed cottages for £100 a night.

£4K for self-catering is insane.

Around August last year I booked 4 UK single-week cottage holidays for 2021 (May, July, August, October). All are refundable up to a week before. Booked using hotels.com and air BnB and were "normal" prices. All 4 have messaged within the last 2 months asking to cancel as their circumstances have changed. Asking me to cancel the bookings rather than them doing it. I assume this is because Air BnB charge them a cancellation fee and also block out the week so they cant up the price and take another booking (this is according to the customer services person). All 4 are oddly still advertising their cottages for the year ahead, despite one telling me they were selling the cottage and another telling me they wont be renting it out due to refurbishments all summer. Cant see the prices for my weeks as all school holidays are either now booked up or blocked out.

We're going to the same cottage as last year. It's actually turning out cheaper as we are booking direct. But we booked the only week still available in the summer. So I guess things are booking up faster.

I live in a seaside resort so will have some holiday days at the beach like last year ☺️

[quote Love51]@Coffeeandcocopops it's with PGL.
The accommodation is basically "school residential trip" style but apparently it is very clean so I'm not too fussed. The price includes room, food, and 4 activities a day, which is what makes it so reasonable![/quote]
Thank you they look really good.

Changechangychange if you were referring to my £4k comment, that's for 2 weeks in a 5 star serviced beach front cottage for 5 of us, all meals out (we do do any cooking), all sightseeing and spending money etc.

The think is it's all relative. I think the above is a bargain for the amazing time we have. I would consider the same money for 2 weeks in the carribean a total rip off as I wouldn't enjoy it so it wouldn't be a good use of money.

Everyone is different. These threads often go the same way, lots of posters bashing UK holidays because they don't fancy them, ignoring the fact that for a lot of people it's what they would actually prefer.

Don't get me wrong, I've travelled abroad a lot, and will do again in the future, but not with young children as it's just not for us.

RedRidingH00d that's really bad! What did you do?

My parents live in cromer so will be there as soon as we can go and as much as we can.

In laws have a house in Cornwall but its small so we booked a campsite nearby before Christmas. £200 for the week. I like camping and the site is walking distance to a beach.

We usually have a week somewhere new in UK just DH, DD and I but not this year.

Haven't been abroad in years. Ironically we all got passports last year to have a big holiday in France with in laws but now its postponed indefinitely.

There is a limit to what I’d pay for a uk holiday tbh. You just know it’s going to rain and be over crowded and miserable. With restrictions in place there is no guarantee of being able to do anything either.

We bumped a UK holiday from last year to this - we paid about £3.5k for a week for two families (place has hot tub, swimming pool etc). This year the same accommodation for the same week is £5.3k!

I can see why they have to do it, but not sure who will pay that much (if I had that to spend on a week, I’d want something more exclusive!).

We’ve booked a week in a lovely cottage in Yorkshire. It’s within our budget and not massively cheap but in an amazing place and the same price as last year. It’s less than some of these chalet/caravan holiday prices though, but they’ve always shocked me even in normal times. Kids are looking forward to castles and fish and chips. It’s a holiday we’ve been wanting to do for years but not got round to.

@Changechangychange if your boy is obsessed with Ivor, look at Portmaddog rather than Aberdovey. Small steam line from there (not the big main one that goes up to Snowdon) with a museum that sells the Ivor books. My DS loved it.

We’ve got a holiday abroad booked for august that I suspect won’t happen. I have been looking at UK options but am
thinking I’d rather have more weekends away with a hotel stay than a week self catering. A lot depends on where you live though. Eg I like the idea of a center parks trip but my husband is dead against it as we live near a forest. If we were in London it would feel much more different. We also have family members near a beach so again harder to justify cost when we could just visit

@Thislittlefinger123 no not your comment, lots of people saying they are spending thousands on cottages and caravans over summer.

Spending a lot on a luxury break is one thing, but the OP mentions being quoted £3k for a week in a caravan. I’m not criticising anybody here, the posters I’m responding to thought those prices were rip offs too. I’m pointing out those prices aren’t across the board so they should shop around/look at other areas.

We have 3 haven breaks that have been rebooked from last year. We had a phone call from them recently to say that the pricing had been under quoted for 2 of the breaks and they were asking everyone to downgrade to cheaper caravans with a voucher sweetener. Obviously we declined and when I checked online the prices were 800 more than we had paid!

Ours is double this year (abroad) but that is partly because there is now a school child amongst us so we are going in summer holidays instead of June.

We go to Cornwall every year. This year the prices are sky high for what little is left. It’s the first year since I can remember that we won’t have gone. We’re off to the Lakes instead.

You might see some late availability coming on - we blocked ours until we know what the restrictions will be because easier to take bookings with those known rather than have to renegotiate all the contracts based on 7 nights becoming 6 due to cleaning requirements or people cancelling because they'll be in breach of regulations if they come. We were also half thinking we might use it ourselves for an extended summer break in UK (unlikely now due to quarantine- we live overseas).

@RedRidingH00d

That is awful. I assume you are going to decline to cancel??

@SoCrimeaRiver thanks, I’ll look at that!