Super nosey post: How much do you spend on your main holiday?

[ClassyJen]

I feel like have the cost of holidays spiralled over the last few years to the extent that I have absolutely no idea what the going rate should be. Every year when I start googling villas it’s like the pricing has been set by rolling a bunch of dice.
I’d love to know how much you spend per person on your main holiday vs how much you earn for context.
Assuming I go first, I earn just under £300k basic (not cash rich as mostly eaten up by school fees etc) and now spend about £7k flights + villa for the three of us for a week in Europe. I thought this was quite a lot but our considerably lower earning friends have just shared that they spend quite a lot more that us. Is this a reasonable amount? What are you confortable spending? I seem to be able to evaluate spend on a pair of jeans no problem but holidays are blowing my mind…

We have a second home in DH's country of origin so our main holidays are spent there. About £900 for travel for him and me and then normal living costs when we are there.

I travel a lot on my own or with friends . I budget £1150 a week for those holidays. If it's very long haul the flights might add £500 or £600 more to the overall cost but then I'll stay longer so it might only add £125/£150 to the weekly cost.

This year we are doing a one off all inclusive break in the Med with mates to celebrate a slew of significant birthdays. It's worked out at £1900 each for a week. It's far and away the most we've ever spent on a holiday and it makes me feel a bit sick when I think bout it.

Oh minimum £10k per head, 1st class flying on the Lunar Spacecraft is so worth it to us, the Jones' next door are so jealous.

I wouldn't know. We haven't been able to afford a holiday at all for years.

But you do you.

Completely out of touch with most people.

You earn 300k? Wow! What do you do ?
I earn £43 k if I work full time hours.
Last year I spent approx £4k for two weeks for one adult and two children.

In summer about £1500 gets us to Europe in our camper van staying for two weeks on sites with swimming pools. We eat out on site and go to attractions but it’s not crazy expensive living.
we spend more skiing. About £4.5k now for all of us. Very little expenditure on top of that.
we don’t earn anything like £300k but we also don’t have school fees or spend loads at home.

I think we blew £6k on a dream American road trip, 3 weeks in lovely hotels with a big 4x4, years ago, just the 2 of us.

£7k ish for a 10 night holiday

The most I can ever afford is £200 for a weekend in a cheap B&B somewhere relatively close to where I live. I'm very happy for you that you earn £300k a year, but it's bloody tone deaf to say so.

We spend 10-12k per year (not including spending money). 3 of us and we get a skiing holiday, week in canaries, turkey AI, a week in this country by the sea (shared with family), centre parcs weekend (shared with friends) and then 2 city breaks. We earn about 110k as a household. I'd say 7k is very low as % of your salary.

DH and I do a 2 week cruise about £1600 pp plus £1000 spending money so about £4200. Plus we usually stay in our holiday home in France for a couple of weeks each year so only cost is ferry for me, DH and Foster son plus spending money. We eat croissants for breakfast or an omelette we cook at home before we go out, we eat out every night on holiday as I'm not cooking but lunch is usually a baguette with ham or cheese, and fruit with mini cheddars, Quavers or a banana as a snack for FS mid afternoon. Total cost about €3000. We have 3 or sometimes 4 weekends breaks but only bargains I might find on Travelzoo. £300-400 each one including accommodation and spending money.

Just over £5k a few months ago for a two week holiday in Asia, but only because it was our babymoon and we won't have a chance to get away for a long time. This was for two of us.

Usually we spend a lot less. I hate overspending on holidays. It's a waste, imo.

This year will be about £3-3.5k. For 5 holidays - couple of weekends away with DP abroad and 3 different weeks with my kids (one camping, one caravan and one visiting family overseas). Holidays are about 10% of my take home pay.

Dh and I are sooooo lucky enough to have both became disabled within 5 weeks of each other 3 years ago. So ya know my millions (roughly 20k) that I get from adp, well the backpay went on a big holiday for this year. 5k for two weeks all inclusive.

typically it's about 1k either in the UK (haven for the wee ones and taking the dog) or about the same for marbella, bil lived there so we know where to get cheap apartments.

Around £3.5k for the 2 of us plus around £1500 spending money- 10 days Spain or Greece booking the bits separately - but will always be a really nice adults only hotel plus flights at good times. We did spend £4.5k last October but went to California for 8 days

Oh OP, this could have gone so much better had you thought for even a moment..

£3k for 4 at an AI for a week. £1500 on a city break and £1k on flights to visit family plus 2 camping breaks of £250 each. Usually spend less on the AI but they've gone up loads. Our household income is around 80k gross

Considerably less than yowz, op

About £300 for campsite and petrol, to stay on a nice campsite by the coast. I earn £22k and haven’t holidayed abroad since 2009. I’m about to spend £45 on staying in a hostel in Wales for 2 nights to go walking in the mountains and can’t wait. If I had plenty of disposable income, I’d consider travelling to see the world a really good use of it.

It's clearly not an actual problem for you given your salary but for what it's worth, I budget around £4.5k for a family holiday in the summer for 2 adults and 2 DC. Nice Eurocamp or Turkey AI kind of thing. But most people cut their cloth to their income and my income is not in your league so whether that's helpful I don't know.

About 2k per year but on about 15% of the OP's income. Holidays are a big priority for us.

When we flew to Necker virgin upper class and booked the best villa for 14 nights I think it cost around £143k? That was for 4 of us and included breakfast though so was an absolute bargain.

Sadly I woke up before I got a chance to sample Richard's croissants

£500 for a family of four, camping in Cornwall for a week. It's all we can afford, although the older DC has been abroad twice with school, and the younger one is going away with a friend after GCSEs - these trips have cost several hundred pounds each, but we have budgeted carefully and paid for them in instalments. We have a reasonable income: around £40k (gross) between us, but with a mortgage, bills and rising grocery shopping prices, there's never anything left over at the end of the month.

If your salary is 300k then you must realise that a £7k holiday spend is not a vast amount. Not sure what you want from this thread.

Family of 4 here, 4.5k for a week in Aug, suite with private pool in Greece, another 2k on along weekend in France (disney) earn £100k+ HTH 🤣

We are on 20% of your income-also have school fees and consider ourselves cash rich.

Under £3 k for a familyof 4 and a week in Cyprus.