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

Sorry it’s just my opinion. During the summer I often too see videos ‘reminding’ me I only get 18 summers with my kids therefore making me feel guilty for having to work etc and not being able to just go to the beach or whatever every day. It’s great if it’s not your experience though!

I'm a single parent and we are only a 3 person family which helps. We go on holiday every 3rd year and have a household income of around 60k. I spend about 20k on our holiday (we go to florida)

We rented a boat with crew in South of France, all the “kids” slept on it and we all stayed in a neighbouring hotel and were on the boat in the day. We treated all our extended family which explains the cost.. never again!

@Sendinsanity where in Florida do you stay? Or do you do longer? That's a lot of money for only 3 people, even if Florida!

My dh and I earn 50-60k each ft
we spend about 7k-8k on holidays a year that’s usually a week abroad and then a few mini uk breaks

I think what we've learned from this thread is that most people are prone to exaggeration ;-)

Household income is just shy of £41K.

We don't really go on holiday but last year we went to Australia to attend a family wedding so turned it into a 2 week trip. We spent circa 10K for that and we are also having a few weekends away (not abroad), which will probably work out in total to about £4k. Most years it's around £6-7k for weekend trips though.

Hahahaha. Myself, and indeed all my friends, still go on holidays with their adult children. Can't get rid of them! As they get older, you collect their partners too. These are kids in their mid to late twenties. They then also do extra solo trips with partners and friends, but the concept of the family holiday still persists.

Oh I know, we could definitely do it a lot cheaper but we just go less often for longer. We usually go for 3.5 weeks, just over 2 weeks at one of the moderate disney hotels then a week at the hard rock or portofino. Discovery cove is our other unreasonable expense but loved treat when there too

@Sendinsanity I was just being nosey, sounds wonderful! At least they've brought free Disney dining back now!

Next year I expect to spend around £9k plus spending money/food/some activities.

We would usually spend around £8k all in for a big holiday, a weekend abroad and a couple of UK weekends. But we haven’t done so since 2022.

This year we aren’t doing anything either, had to emergency buy a car, paid to get our stairs redone as they weren’t safe and I was pregnant and maternity pay is absolute shite.

We take home around £60k so around 15%

We're semi-retired so we have a household income of about £32k. We spend over a third of that on holidays -usually one long-haul, one sun holiday and a European break plus we go away at Christmas. Usually comes to about £12k pa

But we have paid off our mortgage and don't have any expensive hobbies etc. We run a pretty old car and we don't really buy stuff.

Summer family Caribbean trip £22K, 7 of us we pay. Family ski trip Approx £9000 but adult sons chip in about £2000, two cruises just me and DH, total about £14,000. No mortgage about 25%. We are retired so having an enjoyable old age, and enjoying company of sons and grandchildren.

Single, no dependant kids.

2.5% of take-home in my budget this year. I don't earn a fortune so I do 3 different types of working holiday in the UK for free accomodation - that budget covers travel, some food costs, and spending money.

I'm trying to save up for a proper holiday later this year as I need a break from working full time then working when I'm on leave, but it cost so much more as a solo person, not sure if I'll get there, so not including that in my budget above.

This is where I found Mumsnet very different from real life. Maybe it’s an age thing, as we all have big mortgages &/or childcare so despite healthy incomes spending even 10% of income is rare.

how does someone spend 20k on 60k?!

My dh and I earn 50-60k each ft we spend about 7k-8k on holidays a year that’s usually a week abroad and then a few mini uk breaks

this is representative of my experience

Usually one week in the summer in this country, so less than £1000, which we pay monthly.

We have neighbours who have ten or so holidays a year. Usually long haul, for at least two weeks.

It’s interesting to know how many people go on regular holidays and how much is spent.
I realise I may be jumped on but as there have been so many threads about disabled people being a drain and having an easy lifestyle of handouts whilst hardworking families are being squeezed by the cost of living crisis I feel the need to comment that it appears a lot of people are not actually that squeezed.

it appears a lot of people are not actually that squeezed.

You think because there is a thread on MN with 143 responses in a population of millions, on a thread specifically asking what you spend on holidays, that people are not actually "that squeezed" do you go to a hospital and assume every in the country is sick. It's a 3 year old's logic.

2k - 1 week in Majorca x 4 of us - I always book flights and hotel separate as I get a better deal that way. 4 star hotel. I’d never go to a hotel that is a cheap AI as they can attract certain sorts. We spend about 2k for the week. There’ll be no restrictions on what we want to eat and drink/do. We can increase that if we want.

5k Mexico - great deal in the BA Sale!

Trip to London - got flights and hotels for three nights for £550 for DH and myself

Easter hols - U.K. holiday park trip

I have been seeing lots of hotels with swim up rooms and these are really beginning to grab my interest but for the privilege it’s an extra £400/500. Can’t decide if it’s worth it!

I will hold off posting our income!

“Feel the need to comment” 🙄Sure. The cost of living crisis is real, or do you not believe in it? Or maybe you don’t believe in the concept of “hardworking families”? Or is it that you don’t think parents juggling two full time jobs deserve to go on holiday?

People are allowed to go on holiday. Our budget this year is five days in France and a week in the UK. A few years ago, people on the same income would have been able to afford a hell of a lot more than that.

There’s been a few posters who said they spend £100-500 on a holiday or can’t afford any at all, but otherwise it’s pretty obvious that those who can’t afford much won’t post on this thread.

I know this is shocking but I am disabled, I receive PIP and I work and go on holiday

We earn around £70k and spend around £5k on two week long European holidays a year. Family of three (two adults one pre schooler).

This will likely change next year though as our 1.4% mortgage term ends 😭

20 years ago holidays were 1 week in Pontins and 1 week visiting my Mum.

Now my sons have flown the nest and mortgage paid off I can take it up a notch or six.

This year I did a few days in Malaga, I've got a 5 day canoe trip in summer and a bucket list type cruise in autumn. 6 or 7% of salary.

My pension when I take it in a few years won't be huge, so I'm doing some of the expensive trips now

This is a really interesting thread!

Our take home pay is 115k, and this year we will probably spend about 18k on trips. Some U.K., some abroad, and a couple separately with friends