If you go on luxury holidays often?

[Nevaenuf]

If you do, Disney Florida, luxury destinations every year? How large is your family? How much do you earn? How much is your disposable income? And how much do you spend?

im in a few Walt Disney world groups and the amount of people that go every year is quite significant and stay deluxe and I’ve always wondered how people afford it’s out of reach for us but our income according to that national statistics thing is the top 20%.

so asking the totally nosey question that people probably wouldn’t want to answer unless they could anonymously

So you earn about 15k more than we do which after tax is not to be sniffed at but there is a huge difference in our lifestyles but I guess that’s the extra £1k a month

Family of 3. We go abroad 3 times a year to luxury hotels (think 5 star al a carte no buffet type places) plus then maybe a long weekend break like a city or Disney Paris. Wouldn’t dream of spending 2 weeks in Florida so that’s a hard no from me.

We earn £175k.

We spend around £40k on holidays a year.

We have a high income but also live in the north. Large mortgage, private school and ponies to pay for.

I don’t fly business or first class although we could afford it - I prefer to do a number of smaller trips. This year New York, Dubai, Florida, Italy, Paris, Canaries and Greek Islands. I’ve spent more than usual this year.

We also do a Centerparcs trip and at least one weekend away somewhere in the U.K. per month. We love going away and spend far too much time and money on it!

My family has a high income and Disney and 'luxury' holidays have never appealed to me... I don't sleep well in hotels and prefer to self cater and just don't like resort type culture, it's not our thing. We could easily afford to spend £15k on holidays but we don't because we have great holidays for far less.

We spend £40k on independent schooling a year so I guess if we didn’t we could have some extremely luxe holidays! As it is, it’s a good thing my parents live abroad as our holidays are visiting them 😁

ETA I wouldn’t do Disney regardless though

£350k, one long-haul, one short-haul and one city break abroad holiday a year. And a couple of UK hotel breaks scattered in between. We are high earners but live in a much smaller home than both sets of our colleagues. We just love holidays and prioritise those.

@Nevaenufour DC are all financially independent now and that helps. We have one car (electric so minimal running costs, we lease it and it’s cheap). We live in the North so a lot of things are cheaper. I also chase bargain and discounted holidays.

£200k+ No private school fees.

We probably spend around £15-20k on holidays a year but could spend more. One long haul (safari rather than Disney more our style). Plus two weeks Europe in summer. Away at Easter, May and October, one of which is usually the long haul two week experience.

We do a mix of holidays. I'm keen that whilst we have a luxurious holiday, the kids also appreciate travelling more generally and have camped, stayed in hostels etc.

At our school, Disney wouldn't be classed as luxurious. It would be a "urgh God I'm really sorry, this soon will pass" type holiday. See also "luxurious 5* all inclusive TUI places" (my work colleagues would consider European luxury to be Ikos / Sani rather than a bog standard Tui).

We basically spend the money we could spend on private education on travel and educating the kids that way.

Two adults and one child at school bringing in 110k a year. We live in the north with a small mortgage, no wraparound care, one car as we both work from home. We prioritise holidays and wouldn’t say we’re particularly extravagant in terms of things like designer clothes etc and we don’t smoke or drink particularly but we do enjoy eating out. We do 2 European city breaks and 2 long haul a year (do DisneyWorld every 3 or so years) roughly. We definitely have more in our budget where we are simply because almost everyone around us with kids has two + and most are drowning in nursery fees and so has bigger houses, two cars etc on top of that.

We were extremely privileged in that we have relatives with similar age kids in the US, so we simply used to house swap with them, which was great because not only were we able to have great holidays, but both families got to experience a very different culture in a kind of ‘everyday’ setting.

I think holidays are important, but one needs to look at the bigger, long term picture, I.e. boring stuff like university costs and retirement funding. We’d never have splashed out on holidays to compromise those. We are keen skiers but didn’t ski for nearly 20 years while the children were growing up because, even though we might have been able to afford it, it would not have been financially prudent. Instead we’d go to the Argave for a week most years, and the memories we ‘created’ during those holidays are really precious for us as a family.

And yes, I appreciate that we are privileged, but I guess my point is don’t overstretch yourself for fleeting luxury experiences if it is to the detriment of your long term financial security.

NB: We have friends who have been doing house swaps - via some website that I can’t remember - all their adult lives, and they have had some absolutely astonishingly wonderful holidays, and no truly bad experiences at all…

People still go to Seaworld?! it's so cruel

Seems that way from the groups, blackfish hurt them significantly so I think they are trying to diversify BUT how long their business model can last who knows

@Redlorryyellowlorryblue what’s your disposable income? We’d love to stay deluxe but it’s to expensive to be responsible for us

We visit WDW every two years. There are plenty of cheaper and yet still fabulous and luxurious hotels off site, which are much cheaper than staying in ‘the bubble’. That’s what we do.

Is Disney considered a luxury destination these days? I thought it was a theme park.

We can do every other year staying on site, but the max we can do it’s moderate but I’m shopping around like crazy

well they are pricey

We always have 3 holidays a year. Used to go skiing in Jan/Feb but lately we have chosen a Caribbean cruise usually Seabourn or Silversea but trying Explora for the first time next year. Then in summer we either pick June or wait until early September after school holidays and would do somewhere short haul Cyprus, Malta, Sicily, Minorca usually for 10 days. Then we always go away immediately after Xmas have done Dubai for New Year for the last few years but this is a family trip as we take the 3 grownup kids with us for part of the trip. Inbetween these trips we also do some quick short city breaks either in UK or Europe.

We’ve never been to Disney (our idea of a nightmare and being remotely near SeaWorld would absolutely sicken me), but we’ve always prioritised nice holidays since our kids were babies. We’ve taken them all over the world. Now they’re young adults, we’ve discovered the absolute bliss of adult only 5 star AIs in the Caribbean. Eye-wateringly expensive.

We don’t have a huge household income - c170k, but it’s enough for 2 good holidays a year and a few weekends away.

combined income only £95k family of five but mortgage is tiny. So yes two holidays a year - AI Europe in summer and AI long haul either Xmas or Easter (done disney, Caribbean etc)

Seems quite a knobish thing to say when you know you won't get any change out of 10k minimum on a Disney trip

Well, while it’s undoubtedly expensive that doesn’t mean it’s luxurious. Definition of luxury: a state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense. I haven’t been to Disney so I might be wrong but I’ve never thought it involved great comfort or elegance.

Never.

Never have or will.

No way will I have that kind of cash. I struggle to find £200 for the ferry to go and visit my family once a year.

Yep, this. We could easily afford business class travel etc, but we prefer to save our cash. We will fly long haul, but economy. Use hotel points etc. Stay in mid-level hotels and motels. As long as it's got a clean bed, pool and free breakfast thrown in, that will do me. I don't need the extras.

We will spend money on decent food and restaurants, though.

We ski, and that in itself is a luxury to me, as it's never a cheap holiday.

Household income about £400k including bonuses but not pension.

We did WDW at Easter, direct flights 2.5k, apartment 2k and tickets about 1.5k. That was for 2 weeks school holidays.

We spend a lot on holidays and don’t prioritise cars or a big house in a flash postcode.

Doing an all inc in Turkey in the summer for £6k, Canaries in Oct half term for £3k and Maldives over NYE for £7k.

2A, one late primary DC.

There’s a lot of people in those groups who go yearly. I think they prioritise it over other stuff, book deals and might do rubbish indirect flights or use airmiles. Missing school cuts the cost too.