To ask what you have planned for the summer holidays and what you paid for it?

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Normally I love to organise things in advance but my husband had an unexpected work change meaning I couldn't.

Now I feel totally lost as to where to go, UK, abroad, what kind of holiday, what to budget. I'm hoping hearing other people's plans might inspire me?

3 wks in the south of France. Under 2k for ferry, hotel stops on the drive & days out, family own the house.

Azores. 1 week with kids and 1 week just us (kids over over 18 and flying back early). Flights are about £200 each. Accommodation about £200 per night first week, £100 per night second week.

I’d love to see a link for this hotel/apartment! We love Italy 🥰

11 night cruise to Canaries next week - £1400 each for a mini suite
Week all inclusive in Rhodes in June - £700 each
6 week home exchange in Florida from October - flights £850 each, only spending money needed after that

I'm loving reading the varied holiday plans

2 weeks in Tuscany/Liguria in June/July, probably coming in at £2-2.5k for flights, car hire and accommodation. 10 days accommodation booked on Black Friday with a good discount, and flights and Vrbo apartment on the coast just kept searching until I got the best deal. Only booked them in the last few weeks, so still some good prices to be found if you can be a bit flexible.
We’re lucky we have earlier school holidays (Scotland) so that saves us £££.

Menorca for 3 nights early July £500 all in.
Wales early August 7 mights £0 (family house) + petrol.
Might drive to Paris in July for a couple of nights. If we do it'll be low budget as hoping to go home for 3 weeks to NZ for Christmas as DCs (now young adults) have never had a Kiwi Christmas. It's going to be eye wateringly expensive but I haven't seen my family for six years so it will be worth it.

Two weeks, between Frig and Nerja in a three bedroomed villa.

One for me, one for the snorer, one for the luggage.Though if my sister joins us with her DS for a long weekend we can move the luggage.

Private pool

Outdoor kitchen

Club class to Malaga, booked the minute they came online £900, now coming up at £1,200, mad, mad luggage allowance.

Need to hire a car

Villa £1,000 more than I would have spent, but Dh is retiring after 46 years and was quite insistent for a quiet man on this property .

It is quite isolated, so I have told him happy to indulge him, but he is driving or we are getting taxis.

We've got 10 nights all inclusive in Tenerife in August for 3 adults, 1 child £2800.

Then the last weekend of August (my 40th), 4 nights all inclusive in Majorca, 2 adults, 1 child £900.

We were originally going to go to Whitby for my 40th but after pricing it all up decided on Majorca.

St ives in July for a week - £960
Me + 2 DD

Italian lakes for one week. Staying with friends so just cost of flights + food (airport parking, new summer clothes for kids)

Youngest might do a drama camp so they are occupied but at a huge cost so thinking carefully about this.

My second summer school holidays week of annual leave we are planning various day trips and excursions - paddle boarding on local lake, zoo, hill walking, explore nearby cities/towns.

This is interesting as I wanted to go somewhere lovely on the beach in Greece as we’ve not been away for so long, but DP vetoed as it’s £2500 for two weeks. It now looks like anywhere even reasonable won’t be much cheaper. I really want to be right on the sea with good weather

Amalfi coast Italy for 1 week August, family of 4 - £2000 for 3 star hotel including food and flights. Booked direct.

Always choose hotels popular with Italians or Germans as cheaper and food is better

For comparison we spent £1200 self catering at a park dean resort in Devon (or static caravan) for 1 week. It was alright but didn’t really feel like a holiday

Off to New York shortly and road trip across Europe later in the summer - kids are adults so cat sitting!

Our trips have cost a lot but one is transferred from last year so paid for then

Currently in Ibiza (7 nights) cost £275 for all inclusive, just me and dh. Dh found the deal and the hotel is stunning.

Turkey for 3.5 weeks in August cost around 3k for 2 adults and 2 teens at a water park hotel, bed and breakfast.

We will likely spend around another 5-7k as we are also going on various trips including 2 day overnight stay in Cappadocia and various trips out planned (wet and wild, basically a water fight between buses) luxury boat trips x 2, pirate boat trip, dh and ds1 also doing sky diving and para gliding etc)

letskeepbusy27
£2800 for 10 nights all inc is a great deal! Can I ask which tour operator you used?

Haudyer
Did you book well in advance for your holiday to Turkey? £3k for 3.5 weeks is good even with bed and breakfast.

Jet2holidays but I booked it last March when prices were really low. Have been looking for next year and nothing is coming close to it so we definitely got a bargin.

7 nights self catering in Wollacombe Bay, 2 adults 3 dc. £1200 and around 2.5k spending money.

Main holiday is to a Neilsons beach resort (but after the school holidays), it was about £700 per person including flights, food and activities on site.

already been abroad skiing this year and had two long weekends in the lakes… so this summer

10 days in Scotland, I grew up in an amazing corner of the east highlands so just staying in a cottage on a family members farm. so that will just cost fuel
long weekend in Devon
long weekend in the cotswolds
lond weekend in north wales

all about £200 each

A week in the nice bit of Majorca 😬in a 4 star hotel, all inclusive, two adults and two children - we’re paying £3000 (would have been £2700 but we wanted specific flight times).

(That’s in August)

Cottage with hot tub in Devon for a week. Cost 1,100 in June. Hopefully be able to take 500 for food and spends. Would have been 2.5k at least in holidays 😮

I might brave camping again this year, but due to my youngest being a PITA last time I will probably pass on that.

I was tempted to book a holiday park again for a few days, as the kids love the facilities, but last year we had a very large 'wedding party' turn up and cause havoc, so our holiday got cancelled. Never again.

Our holidays last year didn't turn out to be holidays. I cried when we were camping due to the stress of my toddler running off constantly and barely sat down and it took ages to pack. The holiday park trip was a non-event. That's why this year we are spending a little more and going more self-contained to have an easier time. I'm hoping it works out or I will give up on holidays completely.

I might look at a ferry to France next year, but can't be bothered with international travel with COVID, a dog and a tantruming toddler.

If I could go all inclusive in a small hotel with decent facilities in UK that would be ideal, but I don't see many places like it.