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

I don't know any such thing, because I have no desire to go and have never investigated the price.

all in all despite your very noice income you didn’t spend an earth shaking amount on wdw, similar to your time in turkey

Well some of the deluxe resorts would definitely fit that description they are objectively very nice

We are a family of five.

We do one big adventure holiday a year for a fortnight. Places like Vietnam, India, Tanzania. We also usually do one other week away in Europe in summer: Greece, Italy or Spain. Then various weekends in UK but cheaply done (eg DH and DS go to away games for their team and stay in guest houses, I visit eldest at uni but get a cheapies hotel, we all go for a week to the coast but stay with in laws and only spend money on eating out).

The adventure holiday costs circa £20k. The week in Europe about £10k. The UK breaks combined over the year about £2k ish.

London based. Combined salary of £240k. Chose not to privately educate kids. Have one old and crappy car. None of us spend a lot on clothes - maybe I do for work occasionally but never designer gear. Don’t eat out when at home more than once a month.

Oh I’m sure they do. But a Disney holiday doesn’t automatically mean ‘luxury’, even if it is expensive.

We are not high earners, but I would find it hard to spend so much money on holiday if we were. We can't even go on a cheap package holiday abroad as our child is severely autistic with LD and wouldn't tolerate the flights and would definitely hate Disney world. I'm pretty sure the clientele spending thousands wouldn't appreciate him stimming loudly and screaming or his messy meal times. France is possibly doable for us, but I've heard they aren't tolerant of disabilities there.

The bonus of this is we know what we can do with him (self catering cottages in UK) and although I miss going abroad, it is hard to be envious about exotic holidays other people have when you know they would be a disaster anyway. I guess that is one positive.

If you want to argue the toss of what defines luxury go for it but it clearly wasn’t the impetus of the thread, regardless of whether you define it as luxury the price of Disney world holiday or Disney California holiday for that matter is comparable to what the price of most ‘luxury qua luxury’ holidays

Apologies, I didn’t mean to derail your thread and upset you. I was just responding to a comment a previous poster made. I’ll duck out now.

I think you might find DLP more accommodating than wdw, wdw have got very problematic with their disability access pass, now a lot of people who clearly need it can no longer access it but DLP you can provide a medical letter and get the necessary accommodations.

@TakingHavenInTescoExpress In Florida it’s 4 main theme parks, 2 water parks, several mini golf courses (that sounds so dull but they are incredible), a vast shopping and entertainment area (I’m not doing it justice in that description). It’s a totally immersive experience for those that want to go.

Not upset, it just seems a bit futile to debate the semantics of ‘luxury’ perhaps I should’ve termed the thread luxury or luxury price ie expensive

I suppose I should include spending money for WDW- probably £1.5k? We self catered mainly and took sandwiches into the parks. We like apartments with our own space and DC not fussed on souvenirs really. Some people at WDW LOVE trying certain foods/drink which is expensive. A cocktail was about £18 in the park and I felt that was too much!

In all honesty if I went again I’d spend on the fast passes but the premier one is $440 a person for magic kingdom…

Two adults, Three children. Income of approx 400k from one income. mortgage paid off from an inheritance and school fees paid by grandparents.

Annually we usually have a week in Cornwall at Easter (staying with family at their second home - they come to us in the summer)

A weeks skiing over NYE or Feb half term (a standing swap with friends who use our Caribbean place over the same dates)

5-7 weeks in Caribbean over summer (hurricane / low season - empty but overcast) - have a shared family home there - DH works remotely.

usually a week driving over to somewhere in France

occasionally we chuck in a long weekend or week in Greece / Mallorca / Ibiza - usually coinciding with a wedding or significant birthday.

the only ones we pay for are the French driving and the occasional wedding get a way.

So it seems extravagant - and it’s extraordinarily fortunate - but suspect our costs are probably less than a family who go to Ikos once a year… we buy a lot of travel with air miles accrued on DHs work credit card. We hire / borrow / share ski kit + things like paddle boards / sailing dinghies.

some of its priority, some of its making big banker money - but in my experience a lot of people who have really nice looking lives are just born (or marry) in to very very privileged networks and wider family wealth…

We are going to Disney this year, paying for 7 in total. It’s costing in excess of 30k. It’s a once in a lifetime for us, will not be going away this year or the year after Disney. Combined wages of 110k. This is huge for us, we struggle to go a week away to Europe every other year.

We love to travel and this year have/will have been to Lapland, Disney World, Cyprus, Norfolk, Croatia, Poland and Budapest. We don't normally stay in luxurious places (I.e we stayed in a moderate Disney hotel and for Lapland stayed in a cheaper 2 bed apartment), this helps keep the cost down but still get to go to these more expensive places.
We earn approximately £90k between us, 1 child of 7, low mortgage and an annual holiday budget of around £12 to £15k (although this year more like £25k as we paid a lot for the Poland trip for our extended family. I worked part time after having our child but went back full time so we could increase our travel budget.

2 adult household no kids (mid 30s) no mortgage - from hard work not had any help or handouts, 100k ish income before tax. Generally 4 holidays a year as we love to travel. Always stay in decent hotels 4 or 5*.

@Nevaenuf Thanks for the suggestion. I think my autistic child probably wouldn't like it and my eldest is getting a bit too old for it now anyway. He's quite happy to dangle a rod over a lake and sit in a hot tub. I know he'd love to go abroad though, which is sad.

To the pp arguing about luxury, surely it's subjective and depends what you can afford? Getting the nicest accommodation at Butlins would feel like a luxury for some people. Not everyone likes being overwhelmed with luxury either. I wouldn't find it relaxing being anywhere where I had to keep up appearances or there was an expectation to spend constantly, I'd feel like I couldn't be myself. I would prefer to be somewhere isolated with beautiful views and wildlife, whereas some feel that access to lots of high standard amenities is luxurious.

It is interesting to see what high earners spend though. I don't think there is any harm if you have earned it. People prioritise different things.

We’ve been many times, going again after summer. We never stay on site, because to us it’s the opposite of ”luxury”. Tiny rooms, crowded with kids and just too much Disney after a day at the parks. We don’t do too many sit down restaurants, they are expensive because you need to pay tips. And we really don’t like the food in the parks, so just don’t want to eat there anymore. We try and book our trip early, and pay it off (even parking at the airport and rental car) before we go. And we have saved every month for spending money. I definitely wouldn’t go without renting a car though, there are many nice places to go to apart from the parks.

And I am also wondering why anyone would go to Seaworld!? Cruel.

A Mickey pretzel, and I’m happy! °o°

Have you considered a moderate resort instead of delux? We stayed at Caribbean beach. Don’t get me wrong the deluxe resorts look lovely but we spent very little time at the resort so it wouldn’t have been worth the extra £ for us. We saved up during the Covid years to afford it. We want to go back but would probably stay off site next time and do universal as well.

Still I feel that’s fairly average I’m not sure the premier fast passes are worth it, for the cost, it seems extremely high, but then again it was genie plus when we were there we didn’t deal with the system they’ve got now and we only did it for MK and studios

I have always tried to prioritise trips and holidays, even if just a camping trip when low income. Now with higher income we have been doing several holidays a year, 1 long haul at around £10k ish and others Europe and UK. Family of 4, primary aged dc. I feel like I need it for my sanity and because I want to see the world. Our income is £135k, for now I choose the holidays over refurb works that aren't finished, have old furniture and appliances, older cars etc, all those things will get sorted in time too but just take longer

Why is everyone harping on about how they wouldn’t touch Disney with a barge pole? It’s completely off the point and not what OP is interested to know.

What income, largely what disposable income, enables a family to afford an annual holiday with a Disney and/or luxury price tag of £10k +.

That someone doesn’t think Disney is luxury is irrelevant. As if someone saying that take X holidays and ‘prioritise’ them without saying their disposable income. Christ, I feel for you on this thread, OP, you’ve opened the gate to a particular Mumsnet hell.

We went value last year but next year we’ll do moderate as the jump in price isn’t that much esp considering the qs meal plan pretty much makes it full board for us. We’re debating between cbr and fq but the reviews for cbr seem patchy but the sky liner is super handy to rope drop at Epcot and studios and avoid that LL pass

Like most words luxury has several definitions, your example is just one of several. Mine is something that is not essential that is expensive to obtain