To ask how much you spend on your holiday?

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How much do you spend a year on your holiday and how much is this as a percentage of your income?

E.g. do you earn £30,000 as take home pay and spend £1000 a year (3% of your take home pay).

I'm just wondering as I earn an above average amount, but when I'm on holiday I feel like I'm scrimping compared to the other people I see holidaying and I'm wondering if these are the super rich or if people spend a much larger proportion of their take home pay on holidays

£400 for a holiday in the UK Monday to . Low earners

58k household take home pay. Holiday next month 3.5k. No additional weekends away this year as we’re paying down debt.

@princesspadam i was on your other thread about your husband

you really should find out what he’s on

Every 5years dh annd I have a 'special holiday', last time was a 2 centre one, Dubai and Maldives. But outside of that it's a holiday every other year, which costs about 5k in total. We earn 100k a year between us

we only had about 17 summers together as a family

That's so depressing (but true) put like that 😩

My son is 14 this year and I do feel this crushing pressure we only have a few years like this and trying to fit in all the things I want to show him/ do with him before he flies the nest!

Under that premise, your husband spends 50% of his income on holidays? 🤣🙈

Now im trying to work it out!

Caravan break £700
Week in York £700
Egypt for a week £900
So £2300

Household income is 75k. We have a 16m old through so no Point in mega holidays

Ooh good question my take home 45k a year .

I put £150 a month away towards holidays normal year so that's 4% much lower then other people but mostly just paying for me

£350 Easter break European city
£700 cottage in UK early july just before school holidays adult kids can come
£700 week ai in September somewhere cheap like morroco

This year we are going to new Zealand over Christmas to see my brother 😁 this is a once in a lifetime . Flights £1800 on there own and we haven't booked anything else year so that's completely blown the budget

I can point you in the direction of my parents.....we 34 we are going away without my parents this summer for only the 4th time in our lives. We already have a cruise on the cards for February next year and looking at Caribbean for November next year. DS will also be doing a week somewhere with them this summer. My grandmother is 90 she came away with us all until 5 years ago and we still do weekends away with her.

Yea, the whole 17/18 summers thing is bullshit designed to make people (women naturally) feel guilty.

Yea, the whole 17/18 summers thing is bullshit designed to make people (women naturally) feel guilty.

there is no “17/18 summers thing”. That poster simply said how many holidays she had with her children (we only had about 17 summers together as a family
)

so it wasn’t a “whole thing”

it was her reality

Yea, the whole 17/18 summers thing is bullshit designed to make people (women naturally) feel guilty.

Eh, how's it bullshit? It's just a perspective reminding us actually how little time we have children for, and you make it sound like it's thrown at us all the time, mine is 14 and I've not seen it worded like that before, it's hardly a stick that's been used to beat me with whilst parenting.

@sleepyscientist ah that's lovely, I'm quietly confident my son will be a clinger on for our holidays tbh, I know others say they lose interest but will be genuinely surprised if he does knowing his personality, so I'm hopeful we won't be limited to 17-18, but then it will likely be different when they're grown either way.

I reckon this year we will spend about 14k because we are doing a couple of weekend trips with families & going to a show to do with my daughters hobby on too of our main annual hol.
Next year it will probably be around £8k

We usually try to do a Uk & a trip abroad each year but considering just doing one amazing trip to somewhere like the Caribbean at some point.

I know what you mean about seeing what other people spend!
We earn between us way over 6 figures. When the kids were small we spend around £5-7k on a fortnight in Spain for example.
Now they're older teenagers, it's around £11k as we can't get away with sofa beds anymore and need either two rooms or a two bedroom apartment.
I've loads of friends that earn much less and spend much more though. Guess it's about priorities 🤷‍♀️

This is all very interesting!

@VerasChips net income is £72000, currently on a £5000 holiday which is a big splurge for us and 7% of yearly income we will likely want to go away later in the year. We are at a very nice resort but it has tiers and we are the lowest one, we have been upgraded to the highest one and I feel now I wouldn't be able to come back without being on the highest, it would be a bit naf to not have access to the parts for the highest tier which are right next to the lower ones.

Income around 30k,holidays around 2k a year including spending, food, petrol etc. We have a touring caravan so can have a 2 week summer holiday for £500 plus spending

Gosh. I can only afford £3k as my expenses are so high. My take home is £6000k a month but I have high mortgage and bills and very little disposable income. Single mum of 3. Kids are all teens/pre teen so no “under 11 go free” anymore and the older two get charged full price.

I do a couple of UK budget hols eg caravan park.

Every other year go away with my partner in school term time without kids
Feel terrible I can’t afford to take kids on a proper holiday but taking myself in term time is £800, whereas paying for 3 kids and me in school holidays for something equivalent would be £5k at least.

This year I’ve had some unexpected bills and don’t even think I can afford the caravan holiday.

We don't have school age children so can go on holiday cheaper.

Spending depends on what we are doing each year and we are not high maintenance and generally book everything ourselves (ie no packages). Last year we had two breaks - 10 days in France (a city and then beach location) - which was about £2.5k for travel, accomodation and all spending money and then a long weekend in a UK seaside town which was £500 for travel, accomodation and spending money.

This year we went to Boston and NYC for 7 days in total - that was about £4k in total (flights, hotels and spending money). We don't often do long haul holidays. We will be doing a week in France later in the summer - probably about £1.5 - £2k for everything.

We have a fairly decent household income and pay for holidays from savings ring fenced for that purpose.

We spend a lot as dh insists on taking our adult kids with partners. Most we've ever spent on one was 90k but that was for our joint 50th's taking everyone away. Depends what kind of trip it is- obvs a long wkend city break going to be less than a week's skiing. I guess it varies

Household income is £110k a year. This year, we have had our family holiday which was a week in Egypt at a 5* hotel, all inclusive for 2 adults and 1 child for £1500.

We normally try to keep it around that amount and look for deals but our child is starting school in September so I suppose it will have to increase but I dread paying so much for holidays when I know it is so much cheaper in terms of time.

Yes- I’d rather go somewhere cheaper than be somewhere and not be able to fully enjoy it.

We have friends who go to Disney land every year- stay in the cheapest accommodation, take food with them, don’t buy treats in the parks or anything- horses for courses obviously, but we saved up and went once, stayed in a lovely place and did everything we wanted to without worrying about the money.

I think holidays are such a subjective thing- my best friend’s kids haven’t ever been on holiday because they struggle for money and she prioritises other things- the children are still happy.

Also, to be honest we spend a lot of money day to day- I don’t mean we are rich, we just have a takeaway, take the kids out, have beauty treatments, have people over for food etc and basically concentrate on having a good time as much as possible- so we probably don’t prioritise holidays as much as a lot of people.

90k!!! What's your income ?

Sure. I’m just saying that our £110k wouldn’t stretch to what we spend on holidays without a little bit of what people around us would see as sacrifice.

Omg please tell us about the £90k holiday!! Where? How many people?