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…

Earn around £62k. We have one abroad holiday a year which is usually around £2k for 6 of us but this is because we just pay for flights and stay at my parents holiday home which we are very fortunate to have access to for nothing. Otherwise we’d struggle with an abroad holiday every year with 4 little ones cost wise. We do plan next year on going to a kiddie themed resort so starting to save - I agree prices differ massively!

we also do a couple of nights in legoland a year as the children love it and centre parcs once a year for a week. Then we do little staycations at places across the UK during the school hols - we stay in a hotel for a night in different cities and go to whatever is around eg zoos, aquariums etc. the kids really enjoy this too. And can be cheap if on a budget as can get a hotel for 45 quid a night! Xx (I appreciate your budgets and options will be different to ours but hope I answered your q)

We’re spending just over £4000 this year on 2 weeks all inclusive in Greece out of school holidays, for 2 adults, a 3 year old who has a free child place and a 18 month old who is obviously classed as an infant so we don’t pay for him. I’m dreading next year when we need to pay for one of the children (hoping we can get a free child place for the other), I think we’ll either have to go for a shorter holiday or lower our standards/star rating a bit. 🤷‍♀️

We have a household income of about £95k but have nursery fees to contend with at the moment and I’m literally just going back to work after maternity leave.

I usually take the private jet to my villa in the South of France so nothing, my holidays are free.

I suppose you could count the cost if our pilot, staff & fuel if you want to be pedantic about it!

Not sure why your salary is all that relevant.

Which are of the creative industry?

Creative offshore accounting?

The importing of creatively hollowed-out items of furniture?

Who gives a fuck anyway, save the planet stay at home.

Amazing! Good for you!

ignore all the nego Nancy’s on here. You earn what you earn because I presume you work hard to get to where you are! & I’m also presuming a 300k job a year also includes a shit load of sacrifices in the day to day life???? Can’t imagine you leaving work at 5:30 and not thinking about it again til 9am the next day

As for holidays; just fuck it and spend what you like… even if they get more expensive memories for you/kids are priceless. One day you might not have the choice to be able to go away so do it while you can!!

Me and partner earn about 70k between us and spend 1.5-2k for 2 week holiday for us and one child! Can only do it once a year, but once little one is in school & I can return to full time hopefully we will do more!

Enjoy ur hols & any recommendations let a girl know
xoxoxox

We earn about 70 k after taxes between us both and we normally spend 8 to 14 k a year on holidays , that’s 2 bigger ones as 2 weeks in villa with pool etc or 1 big and 2 smaller ones like Disneyland and a city break abroad

Last year 8k in a two week all inclusive. Holiday of a lifetime and utterly indulgent, years gone by would be around 2-3k. There are 5 of us.The same two weeks and location this year was 12k.
We are spending 2k on a week in Cornwall instead which still feels like a massive rip off. Plus we will spend a lot whilst there. Just hoping the weather is dry!

If Richie is unavailable my toddlers insightful program tells me ms rabbit has an airline too!! Try her instead of lowering yourself to commercial.

It’s universally standard to reference gross salary to describe how much you earn though isn’t it. Like every single response on here for example.

I’m actually super proud and also more than a little surprised about how well I’ve done. It hasn’t been an easy ride but worth it to give my kid a completely different upbringing to me. And I’m not jealous of other people, that way madness lies

Exactly!! 🤣🤣🤣

OP, do come back..I want to know how I can earn £300 000 basic! 💰💰🤑

In all seriousness I want to know what the creative industry is. I always imagine it's women sitting around crotcheting toilet roll covers, but at £300k I doubt it.

Our holidays this year:

£4k for main holiday- a week AI in Majorca in summer for the four of us.
£3k for week in a cottage in Devon over Easter with in laws.
£1k for our share of an October half term week in North Wales with extended family.
£500 camping week over summer, not sure where we'll go yet though, maybe Isle of Wight.

If that is 7k just for villa and flights that sounds silly pricing. That must be some villa!

If that includes all your restaurant meals and activities as well then sounds ok if you are on 300k and can afford it.

We spend about half that for a family of 4 2 week holiday in europe. Teens who eat at restaurants like adults so probably 1k just on food! And we do lots of activities too.

Earn a bit more than you, spent about 20kGBP on a 5wk holiday to UK last summer, stopped over for a week in Dubai each way too. Do I get a prize?

Bemused by MN.

One day MNers are vilifying mothers posting that they’re concerned DS ‘only’ wants to be a PE teacher when they could be a barrister/lawyer etc and earn loads of dosh; and then the next day, when someone (female) posts that they earn a really good sum in a competitive, male dominated industry which has enabled them to pay for private schools, they too are vilified.

So, women on MN are allowed to do well, but not too well; are allowed to earn (or marry men) who do jobs that posters here have predetermined as socially and morally acceptable, but god forbid they work in ‘the creative industry’?? They are mugs if they are teachers but how very dare they be scriptwriters, tv/film directors, CEOs of production companies or artistic directors? And those same posters will start threads on Emila Fox’s clothing this season or about some other [bi-]product of the creative industry that has them hooked.

OP, spend your income whatever way you want to and try not to compare to others. People spend on their holidays according to what they feel they deserve or can afford. It’s values + income + a million other variables that inform their decision, whether the final spend is a modest amount or a small fortune.

It varies: £15k for three (DH, DS and I) for a safari in Tanzania with Kuoni; £15k for Japan; £9k for Egypt (Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Nile cruise including flights); £6k for Turkey (Istanbul, Ephesus, Cappadocia, Pamukkale); all costs include flights

I’ve not added up the total cost for our recent trip to Vancouver plus Alaska cruise (balcony room) including staying in Denali National Park, small plane excursion to glaciers, flights to and from UK but would reckon it was around £25k

Costs will also depend on how you travel, we have gotten used to private tours/guides and go for extras such as hot air ballooning, sightseeing helicopter or plane rides, sky diving, tandem paragliding, food tours (eg £400 for three).

Edited to say: well done OP for what you’ve achieved! Enjoy holidays as you please, only you can determine what is worth doing or not

https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-experience/job-sectors/creative-arts-and-design/overview-of-the-uks-creative-arts-sector

Thank you for this. Happily, after a poor education, and zero support either in the way in, or on the way up in an industry where women are treated very very badly and are very rarely the ones in charge, I’ve taken so much shit over 30 years that nowadays I’m completely un-trollable in real life or online!!!

You are the prize :)

a couple of hundred pounds camping, including train fare. But train fare can be massive - and so that adds a bit. Also we have accumulated lots of good quality light weight camping gear over the years, so that is a high initial outlay

I usually spend £1000 on my main holiday, but I am single and childfree. About half of that goes on accommodation and the rest on flights and spending money. As for how much I make - my main job is TA so I make pennies from that, but I freelance on the side instructing on a course and get paid £100 per class I instruct, so I pay for my holidays with that.

Most years I can't afford to go away or go to visit friends/family and use them as a base for some different scenery. Otherwise it'll be day trips to local beaches etc.

I did spend more last year and visited a friend in Montana and went to Yellowstone but that is a one off not a yearly expense. I'm still paying it off on a 0% credit card.