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

Disney holiday being a luxury holiday. That tickled me.

Oh, look at the people falling over themselves to sneer at Disney “oh, we wouldn’t dream of it”…and the absolute corker “in our school that would be an “oh dear these things will pass” holiday”. FFS.

What is it exactly that makes you feel the need to say such things? It’s an anonymous forum so nobody who matters to you is going to think any better of you for clarifying that Florida is not your type of holiday. You’re just saying it to make other people feel bad.

Honestly this place is a cesspit of snobbery.

To answer your question OP. We go skiing every year plus one or two Mediterranean resort holidays and one UK trip. This year we went to Dubai as well but that was tagged on to a work trip for me. We haven’t been long haul yet as a bit much for our son but we will be going to Asia as he gets older (we both used to work there) and may well go to Florida too. One child, combined income £350k before tax, we pay school fees and our mortgage is not quite paid off yet. We drive a fairly modest car.

My parents grew up in poverty and did not fly on a plane till they were in their twenties. They worked very hard despite minimal education and took my brother and me to Disney Florida when we were 14 and 10. It was truly magical. Shame on anyone who sneers at that.

Lots of rich parents at DC’s private school seem to sneer at any kind of popular foreign beach/disney holiday.

It’s much more de rigueur to schlep down to Cornwall or North Norfolk for a rainy, worthy British seaside holiday in their second homes or holiday cottages.

Disney world to me is not a luxury holiday so it depends on what people define luxury

Not Disney but we do 3 weeks 5 star AI in Turkey / Egypt every summer.

Just under 80k household income. 1 ds who just turned 14. Small mortgage up in the North East.

Holiday savings are put aside on payday. It's a huge expense but we live quite cheaply otherwise.

Pals always comment on how lucky we are - but they're often having 3 take aways a week, buying work lunches and coffees, smoke or have expensive treatments etc. We just prioritise differently.

Do you feel better for dripping that much condescension before 10am?

My aunt and uncle go on several expensive holidays per year. They are retired on final salary pensions and have no mortgage. I don’t know of anyone of working age that does it. Even if they could afford it, a lot of families prioritise other spending such as house renovations.

Probably spend £30-40k a year on holidays which covers one main holiday and maybe a weekend or two. Net income about £550k so not a particularly big part of our income.

Re the Disney groups, I think there are just a lot of people in the country with a very high income. 1% of a huge number is still a very big number.

We were at the point of lots of lovely holidays in top 5% of household income with 2 children. We retired early and have just bought a Motorhome. The most expensive holidays we have been on have been cruises, Disney resort and a month in America. The Disney was certainly nice but not like staying at a really good 5 star hotel. DH has had the pleasure of staying in one of the few 7 star hotels in the world on a business trip.

We have just seen a round the world cruise and are planning on doing that in a few years.

Household income about 240k ish
We do one long haul around Feb, then normally something else in the summer which varies, and a Europe holiday in the spring. Sometimes other random trips as well
Have not been to Disney - I would though but haven’t got round to it

We are high earners with 2 dc in private school. I’m interested in value for money rather than what stuff costs. I don’t have family swaps or second homes in Cornwall available to me 😁 Or a work credit card clocking up airmiles sadly.

I priced up wdw this year and in the school holidays you could do it for £10k off site and £15k on site + spends which I thought was extortionate. I’m looking at Japan now and going to Disneyland and universal there as part of a bigger Japan trip. This will cost more than 15k but I think it will be amazing and well worth it. I’ve wanted to go to wdw for years but I don’t think it’s worth what it’s costing at the moment in the school holidays and it annoys me you can go for a couple of k if you’re not constrained by term dates.

Our holiday budget is our overtime money + extra from bonuses. This year we’re not doing anything particularly fancy as a family but we are going to Butlins which is excellent value for money (though if you’re sneering at wdw I suspect you won’t want to go and find out 😁).

Luxury is having memories for life with your loved ones.

Retired,no kids or mortgage. We do a cruise most years, usually long haul/fly cruise, luxury but not top end luxury line, and a two week cottage holiday in the Scottish highlands/Skye every year.

We probably spend €15/16K a year on holidays. That consists of a 2 week long haul usually to the UAE and a midterm staycation for 4/5 days. We’ve done the usual med type all inclusive to Spain/greece/Portugal and now the kids are a bit older we head further afield where 5* means just that and proper Ala cartes etc. that’s for 2 adults and 2 children. My older DS no longer travels with us. He was never a big sun holiday fan and prefers to travel to the US with his friends

Combined household income is approx €200K. We could afford to do other holidays but prefer to invest in our mortgage/home and pensions. We always travel economy. I do enough business class flights with work (as does DH) that it’s not something I’d justify spending on the kids and I’d rather use that money towards a higher end hotel

You are being silly.

We are lucky enough to have traveled to almost every corner of the world with our now adult kids. Stayed at beautiful luxury hotels, and because of dh’s job also usually upgraded to first class and the nicest lounges at the hotels with amazing food and drinks.
There are many ”luxury” hotels that wouldn’t feel like luxury to us.

We have also been lucky enough to go to Orlando many times. Not stayed on site because we don’t want to. Every time has been absolutely magical. We have memories for life, and no regrets. Such gold times.

To say that those memories and travels are not luxury just shows how ignorant you are.

We love WDW (it’s exhausting though), don’t tend to go every year as DH needs a year off inbetween. I do go on the Dibb though and marvel at the people doing multiple trips and wondering where all this money is coming from!!
This year we are doing two weeks at Yacht Club, costing 18k for flights/accom/tickets and we have the dining plan (just to set your mind at rest @Nevaenuf , the deluxe rooms are just as shitty and cramped as the value ones! We pay the extra for balcony and to be able to walk to Epcot and Studios - Disney hotels are NOT luxurious, they are just expensive)

Also a week in Norfolk in summer, and a week camping at half term just gone, a weekend away in Brighton and four nights at a luxury hotel just for DH and I at a room cost of about 2.4K (plus food which is expensive there)
Total holiday spend will be about 25ish this year. We budget 25-30.

Next year villa in the Med for 2 weeks in summer, villa budget is 9k for two weeks and we are actually having trouble finding one for that price. Also away in April in Europe at centerparcs and maybe something weekends here and there, as well as our 4 nights away which we do every year.

2A 2K, no school fees, income £340 (320 DH and 20 me), mortgage 2.5k.

I'd say we almost never go on luxury holidays, even if we can afford it.

I've never been to a posh hotel that I thought was worth the expense tbh. I don't spend much time in the hotel anyway as I'd rather explore the locality. I research carefully to try and get value for money.

I have been to Disney once. It wasn't organised by me. I enjoyed it but it's not really my kind of holiday and wouldn't rush back.

Our average holiday for DH, DC and me is around £2500 for everything for a week.

I used to spend a high proportion of my (low) income on backpacking in my youth. I'd travel for a month but stay in the cheapest hostels so wouldn't count that as luxury.

Those of you on £200k plus how did you get there? What jobs do you do?

feel like I’ve made some wrong turns in my life

State school, good exam results. Degree and then job in the City from grad scheme (Me law, DH management consulting). We earn much less than many of our peers because we chose not to aim for very senior management or keep job-hopping. But we have both found secure niche roles with our employers, who value our loyalty and institutional knowledge. Our combined income is £350k, DH is 47 and I am 51.

So I went to a private school and got so so results, (despite being pretty academic I was bullied and it hugely impacted me and then the domestic abuse started) I had no hobbies no interests no work experience but had to go to uni, so cherry picked a degree and did fine, no careers development so just bumbled from one thing into the next and fell into finance with no experience and no professional quals stumbling on a 60k snr manager role

Oh and I’m 35

Very well expressed- this is my thoughts too.

Income is only part of it. It’s all about priority.

Fancy holidays (luxury / long haul / expensive) are all about conspicuous consumption too.

Plus credit cards, air miles and other income.

60k senior management is not terrible at 35. Finance is very versatile. Plenty of scope to advance still. Get yourself on Linked in and look at the career paths of people in your industry.

Husband retired, I work 3 days a week.

Just come home from a cruise in Mediterranean, going away to a hotel in Devon for a long weekend at the end of June & a week in August (we stay there about 3 times a year including the last 4 Christmases) earlier this year we rented a cottage in the country for a week, we have booked 2 weeks in Cyprus in October & going to New York to visit friends in September.

It seems that we have a lot of holidays, but we had our own business & it was impossible for DH & me to go on holiday together for over 20 years as one of us had to be home to run the business - we're making up for lost time before we get too old.

I’m clearly at the lower end of snr rn, so it’s then higher end of snr, then head of small division, then head of larger division, then director etc. But not everyone makes it up the chain as it’s equal parts skill and politics and being at the right place at the right time