To think my DH is a miser when it comes to holidays? How much do you spend?

[Pipsquiggle]

We are a relatively high earning household. We earn between £7k and £9k a month net. Have a small mortgage, no debts to pay off, monthly bills but essentially never spend over what we earn (we have saved for so long, we have kept up with this habit)

We both agreed that we needed a foreign holiday where we could relax, so I looked at options for an all inclusive 4/5 stars, pools, kids clubs etc. for 7 days. The quotes I got back were circa £5k to £6k (school holidays, family of 4).

My husband then says 'We can't spend like this every holiday - it will be a 1 off' - which is fair enough, I don't mind camping or hiring a cottage etc.

But then I got thinking - am I taking the mick with this holiday? What do other people spend when they go abroad?

I don't want to start a 'showing off' thread but genuinely How much do you approx earn as a household and how much do you approx spend for a week abroad? This holiday is slightly lower than a month's earnings - is that too much?

Thanks in advance.

I think it's so personal. I earned £5.5k+ net and had no mortgage, no commitments, no rent and no children. I still would have felt £5k on a holiday was 'a lot' and that such a holiday was an isolated 'something special'.

@WhosThatBehindTheFlask

I think it's so personal. I earned £5.5k+ net and had no mortgage, no commitments, no rent and no children. I still would have felt £5k on a holiday was 'a lot' and that such a holiday was an isolated 'something special'.

5K holiday for one person is not the same as 5K for 4 people though.

We have a similar joint income and this year we are spending ~5k on 8 nights 5 star in Dubai for 2 adults and 2 kids. Plus £700 weekend in centrparcs plus ~3k on a 10 days in France in June/July

It's going to be a great year! This is the first time we have done tbe big holiday. Usually the 1-2k in France off peak. But both in school now so 🤷‍♀️

We have many relatives overseas in America, Hong Kong, France and Spain , so have had many a cheap holiday. They have also stayed with us in the UK. But we haven’t been overseas in the pandemic. The most expensive holidays were a three week trip to the States that was 6.5k and Disney for 5k. The most expensive was a two week cruise which came in at about 9k for 3 of us that was 4 years ago.

I do like a canal boat holidays in the UK but prices have gone up loads and boats were 2k for a week last year.

Once DH retires we plan on buying a camper van and touring Europe for six months. We then plan buying a camper van in America and touring for six months and then selling it before we return. We can visit various relatives for up to a week at a time on both trips.

About £2-3k every 2-3 years with regular free holidays in between in a family member’s holiday cottage, which is actually a lovely lovely place. We’re very lucky.

But we earn a lot less than you. I would absolutely spend more if I had more income. Love holidays! I can easily see how a holiday could cost £5k and would happily go every year on one of finances allowed.

I've not RTFT sounds good, get it booked. Finding under 6k all inclusive for a family of 4 isn't easy

2 adults and 3 (soon to be 4 kids). Take home in the £5-7k pcm bracket.

We budget ~ £4-5k per year for a foreign beach holiday plus another £2-3k for centerparcs and a couple of city breaks/hotel nights away.

If we were doing a BIG holiday (eg Florida as is the plan for a couple of years time) we would skip the beach holiday the previous year.

That's not unreasonable at all...at one point me and DH brought home 4.5k a month...a week holiday...2 adult and 5 kids was 5k

It is not unreasonable to spend 5 to 6 k on a holiday if you enjoy it and can afford it. Especially if you have always worked fulltime, don,'t socialise

Our net monthly income is about 7k. We own our house. Because we both work fulltime and have dcs, I won't go self catering. I stay at home or go to a hotel for a weekend break. We spend 4 to 5k on an all inclusive holiday every 2 years. On the alternate years we do a long weekend in a hotel in ireland. We don't go out for meals or drinks except if we HAVE to eg a relative's birthday. I drink at home. I don't have any other hobbies, buying clothes etc. The nice holiday is my only extravagance. I would go so far as to say that I wouldn't want to work if I couldn't have a nice holiday every so often. I would feel very cheated to be in my 50s, always worked and not be able to have a nice holiday every 2 or 3 years.

Our household income is less than you and our last holiday was £5k each to the Maldives, and we're spending about £6k each on our next holiday, that isn't every year though, maybe 2 or 3 years between "big" holidays.

50k + 16k but large mortgage. Two kids but haven't been able to afford an overseas holiday yet.

I think for all inclusive that's not far off what we'd pay. There's only three of us (but that often doesn't matter if you're shopping around for free kids' places), we usually only do half board (though we've found a place with breakfast and dinner which suits us perfectly) and we are usually around 1500.

Saying that, I know I could get 5 for a week for less than what you're paying, because I've looked longingly at the 5 options when I've shopped around Have you looked at Jet2? They usually are cheaper than Tui etc.

(I've no idea what our net is per month but we both work and we have no mortgage. We just like to spend wisely as we take a few trips abroad every year in non-covid times, due to both being from different countries etc)

God that's nothing! Our last oversees holiday pre covid was almost £7k with a big holiday 2 years before that topping £35k (tho that was to NZ). If you have the cash and everything else taken care of, enjoy the holiday. To not out too fine a point on it, you could be dead tomorrow.

2 adults plus 2 adult teens and a younger teen - 10 days AI 5* approx £6-6.5k.

And we earn less than you. The memories alone are worth it!

Joint income around 50-60k spend about 1k on several camping holidays a year.

@Hunderland

When and where did you go for those prices?

@Pipsquiggle we've been to both Spain and Turkey. It's SO worth it, the kids loved it too.

@Hunderland

Please could you let me know which resorts you went to and the times of year you travelled - thanks

Family of 3 a week at a Disney world resort a few years back $5,000 US dollars was an amazing week. (I live in the US) I earned the $ working overtime shifts at work with premium pay on offer

Well when I was married and net pcm was 9k Plus average then never more than 2k. That was a one off. Normally borrowed a house so fuel and food costs only. Wish we had gone somewhere amazing.
On my own can’t afford to go anywhere really. Not with 3

I have to say the prices during school holidays are horrific which is why we take ours out for a portion of it. On your salary I don't think that's bad at all. I spend about two months salary on holidays but that's because I usually get a bonus which covers it

With your income that sounds completely reasonable. He is being miserly unless you have very little in savings? We could afford to spend up to £3k on a holiday abroad as a family of 5 but that would be at the very top of our budget.

If I had your money I would not be camping ever.

Op, have a look here - these are the sort of places we went to. You'd need to put in your departure airport and family size. I then trip advisored each one and read hundreds of reviews!

Wow OP, you have managed to pull all the high earning people in all of UK at one place. The average UK salary is £26K and you managed to get people earning £12k net income in this thread, that is £260k gross. Well done!

I earn £3k a month, single parent, probably all up would spend a month's salary on holidays, one or two family ones, plus short breaks (without kids so cheaper and not in school holidays)