To ask how much you budget for the summer holidays

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Aside from actual going on holiday, how much do you budget for the constant spend spend spend fest that is the school holidays?

I don’t really make a budget as such. I just try to squeeze a bit out of the weekly food budget to do some fun stuff - nothing expensive, just a trip to the park and a smoothie or ice cream or something like that. It’s hard. It’s such a long break. 😞

I don’t know…but today i spent 150 on theatre tickets(for the end of July), 60 on horse riding…18 on McDonald’s…help 😅😅

About £100 extra per week. On top of a couple of days of holiday club while I work part time.
That £100 doesn’t get us far, I try and do packed lunches / don’t buy drinks out / free activities / at home play dates as much as possible.
It goes on a couple of activities and all the extra food! And small payments that go unnoticed like car parking, ice cream van, extra petrol.

Currently I'm planning for:

£200 on holiday club
£500 on days out and activities
£600 on a long weekend in Cornwall

As for all the ice cream, lunches out and other unexpected spending, I'll have to cross that bridge when I get to it.

It's more expensive than Christmas.

I’m planning on £100 per week, but that’s going to be a real challenge with a 14 and 11 year old. I miss the days when they were happy to just go and explore a new playground and take a picnic! I’ll encourage them to hang out with friends as much as possible, do whatever free stuff they’ll reluctantly agree to and then have a few more expensive days out. It doesn’t help that some of their friends are much wealthier and are off on exotic holidays. We might manage a week camping somewhere in the UK…

We’ve put DS to a few holiday “camps” over the holidays and also we are going to a family holiday home for a few weeks, which saves a fortune, but still, the constant spending!!!

12 year old and 10 year old here. We do £100 per week. We sit down at the beginning of the holidays and each write a list of cheap things and expensive things to do. So some weeks we might go swimming once and that’s it. The rest of that weeks budget then gets spent on theatre tickets the following week.

it helps we live on a farm and the family rule is if you’re old enough to want to spend money you’re old enough to earn so I make them work!!!

Maybe £50 a week average?

We have a local pass where we live that includes most attractions, farms, climbing woodlands, outdoor pools etc.
we will mainly use that, and the cost is only for any food we buy out ( we mostly take a picnic anyway, so generally it’s ice creams/ fries).
It’s only €7.50 for ds and I day access at our local lake beach areas, cheaper if we do half day.
Most other things are free. We have a large garden, with kids pool and will
meet up with local friends similar age children at various places - everyone local has the pass