Holiday ‘extras’ eating into holiday budget!

[Revolutioniser]

First world problem, I know. And not a surprise either. But still annoying having to pay:

• £22pp each way to get seats on the plane next to each other
• £8.50pp each way for a bit of food on the 4hr flight
• £8 per night AC for the hotel room
• £8 per night tourist tax
• £6 to drop us off at the airport for less than two minutes!

£300 of the holiday spends gone already!

Genuinely think it’s this kind of bloody thievery that makes people think the country is ‘broken’.

I don’t begrudge the tourist tax, to be fair. But the rest of it… ARGH!!!

We usually get a later flight. I’ve done the early hours of the morning flights we just end up knackered and grumpy and can’t get into accommodation until later on anyway. So when we fly it’s around tea time. DS and DD also has autism. So being offered a sandwich as an evening meal they just wouldn’t eat. Sandwiches are lunch food not evening meal food and wouldn’t be a good start to the holiday. I wouldn’t want to be faffing about making pack ups anyway. As well as trying to remember everything else we need.

Nah £6 to drop us off at the airport for less than two minutes! is definitely the parking charge to drop someone off – if it was a taxi then it would make no sense as a two-minute taxi ride is like a 10 minute walk. So you'd just walk! Also they are going from home to the airport surely?

Of course the op is getting to the airport by taxi, they are just making the point it’s an extra 6 pounds to pay to be dropped off at the terminal, so yet another cost to add on to the other ones you have to pay for in order to go on holiday in the first place. The drop off fees didn’t used to exist , but now all the airports have them.
Our cab companies factor it into the price , some might charge it separately I suppose or if you have a relative dropping you off you have to pay them.
We have to use the Dartford crossing to get to two major airports , that’s 7 return if you go that way , so another cost there too and has just gone up in price.
It all adds up.

Tourist tax is set by the country or local authority so isn't an essential, more mandatory. I've never heard of a hotel charging per night for A/C!

I looked at going to the Canaries and quite a few hotels charged for air con.
I think it's a sensible idea given the way people leave balcony doors open etc. Makes people more aware of the cost.

We've always paid in Greece. Maybe not the first time, back in 2003, but we didn't make that mistake twice! Especially as we always go in August.

Greece seems to be the place where you pay for the A/C , but it really should be made clear at the time of booking it up I think.
Hotels don’t charge for it far as I know.