To start thinking/planning next year's holidays!?

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I love Christmas but got a new diary today and started thinking towards the year ahead. We are going Skiing straight after Christmas and a few days in Spain in May...but I've been thinking all day of what else we might do...

Anyone made any plans yet and like to share?

Don't drink or smoke, DH is high earner but we have high mortgage etc to match. We don't go out much, always saving for holidays. Also as he travels so much sometimes avios points etc can be at least partly used for some of the trips.
But I don't know how some people on here having 8 or 10 foreign holidays 🙈

no kids / all grown up
don’t smoke / rarely drink
No mortgage or rent now

so we spend our money on several holidays / weekends away each year

this year we did Tenerife / Mexico and Turkey 2 weeks in each
and 2 long weekend away in London and a week in Cornwall

Another one in the 2026 already booked club! 2025 was done a year ago.

Booked already
feb week in Spain (hometown )
Feb weekend in barcelona
april Disney paris
may cruise which we will likely moved to 2026
August week in Spain (hometown)
august Mauritius

Sweden, Australia, France, Denmark and Japan. Very excited!

Done these except Australia & Japan. Enjoy!!!

Epic multi-day hike with DH in May, health permitting; festival with family and friends in July; family holiday to Mallorca in August; long weekend with friends to Seville in September.

Hike in Scotland, I meant to say.

So sorry OP only just spotted your question! Link to trip below - we've done US road trips via the same company and can highly recommend.

Canada road trip

I love planning the year ahead around Christmas time. We have Lapland with the kids booked for Feb, Italy in the summer and planning a child free weekend trip to celebrate our birthdays this year.

The clue's in the user name. One solo trip and four with DH already booked. One or two more with DH also likely and two or three UK weekends/short breaks.

I've already made enquiries re. a solo trip for summer 2026 but not booked it yet.

They’ve all been booked for several months. Vietnam in February, Canaries in June and Bali in September.

We have relatively modest means and it's only been the last few years we could afford it. The main things are mortgage paid off and DCs now independent.

Then make savings in other areas. Compared against friends with a similar income, we eat out less, fewer takeaways, older & cheaper car, no beauty treatments except occasional haircut, no memberships or subscriptions, (except DH insists on Sky Sports but got a very good deal.) We buy fewer clothes & I frequent charity shops. Don't have the latest tech, cheaper phones etc.

Obviously we are fortunate compared to some, but the cost of gym membership, golf club, nails/tanning/waxing, the latest iPhone and changing the car every year or two adds up to several holidays. It's a matter of priorities.

We’re booked for September 2026 - we’re doing a cruise sailing on our 30th wedding anniversary sailing to the Eastern Mediterranean.

Booked 4 city breaks and am about to plan an Irish roadtrip. And possibly NYC in autumn

I am off to Borneo, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore next summer with my 2 daughters. Very excited. It's been booked since the minute flights were released.

Only hiccup may be that BA were meant to start flying to Kuala Lumpur in November and it was pulled until April, I am hoping it will not be delayed again, if it is we will need to change outward flight.

I am tentatively thinking about Australia for summer 27 but may not be affordable as oldest starts uni this year which will wipe out my spare money I think. Also would take alot of holiday time so maybe it needs to wait to be a solo trip a long time in the future when I'm retired!

Yeah, obviously you need to have some disposable income in the first place but beyond that a lot of it is priorities.

We are off to Milan for a weekend in March, a Greek Islands cruise in August and Disneyland Paris in October. Those are all booked.
Also planning a weekend trip to Billund (Denmark), and I would love to visit New York at some point but not sure if that will be this year, depends on my job really (changing careers this year hopefully)